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• n  the early stage of growth or development
• n  the earliest state of immaturity

• You didn't pop out of the womb prewired for cupcakes, but long ago, early in your babyhood, you got your first taste of one, and instantly a series of sensory, metabolic and .
• Studies have shown that by preschool age, children whose parents gesture or talk to them less in babyhood know significantly fewer vocabulary words than children whose parents .
• It had vanished during his babyhood leaving only a corneous spot on his skull; but people were glad when Tomlin died.

• infancy
• early childhood

News & Articles

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• Breastfeeding As State Policy? Venezuela Weighs Advertising Ban On Baby Bottles
  CARACAS - In Venezuela, the future of baby bottles is looking grim. A proposed bill would ban, among other things, all advertising and promotion of this timeworn symbol of babyhood — as well as the use of baby bottles in health centers for children under the age of six months, Spanish-language news agency EFE reports.
  June 21, 2013 - The Oneida Daily Dispatch

Quotes

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• Gareth Jones in WalesOnline
  Gareth Jones, secretary of ASCL Cymru, said: "Screening of eyesight and hearing is essential as children grow from babyhood because it has a significant impact on their capacity to learn. In most schools where the teacher observes a problem they...