babydomn.

1846 Milwaukee (Wisconsin Territory) Semi-weekly Gaz. 27 Jan. The St. Louis Reveille has an infant correspondent, and the letters from babydom are sometimes very funny.

1874 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 16 Dec. 3/4 The unscrupulous girls gained supreme control over the toddlers, and babydom was all of a tremble.

1907 F. Richardson Love xxiv. 178 Watch the children in the Park—between Stanhope Gate and the Row, the heart of Babydom. They never cry.

1998 Miami New Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. She's also the cutest baby I know—possibly the best-looking infant ever in the history of babydom.

1853 Era 1 May 9/4 All the limbs have not yet acquired their full proportions, and some of the members even yet betray but a recent emancipation from the thraldom of babydom.

1864 Daily Tel. 14 Sept. The young foal or filly must be raced in its babydom.

1914 School Rev. 22 325 The hero, rejoicing in his prominence, is not a picture for manhood, but a memory of human babydom.

1932 W. B. Pitkin Life begins at Forty ii. 13 Look away from a score or more of dazzling exceptions to the national trend, and what do we see? A people held in sweet bondage to babydom.

2003 J. Flanders Victorian House (2004) ii. 42 Even teething, that routine, ordinary, minor fret of babydom, was a major cause of anxiety.