Unswaddle

Un`swad´dle

v. t.

To take a swaddle from; to unswathe.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Tiny newborn feet and fingers stretch and wriggle as the midwives unswaddle babies to check their weight and feed them.

In Poland, midwives play a significant role in childbirth. In Texas? Not so much

Another scoffed at the pretensions of anthropologists, who believed that they could establish foreign policy "in less time than you can unswaddle a baby."

Born enemies: geopolitics, Freudian style

We are the wistful woman Who sees another unswaddle The bloom of a small ripe body When windows blaze in the west, Mourning the waste of her womb Like barren queens at a chrism, Praying for life to seed, And a mouth to hurt her breast.(43)

Opening the archive: Robin Hyde, Eileen Duggan and the persistence of record

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