He takes a pair of scissors and for the first time removes the child's swaddling.
In other words: after a few days swaddling is completely unnecessary.
Swaddling bands were often used to further restrict the infant.
Some authors are of the opinion that swaddling is becoming popular again, although the medical and psychological effects of swaddling are in dispute.
The design features a baby in swaddling clothes.
Swaddling also prevents newborns waking themselves with their moro reflex.
He wrote against swaddling infants into tight bundles.
Swaddling fell out of favor in the seventeenth century.