Were babies really bound up like this?
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According to my bedtime read, in 1526, when Mary Boleyn sees her baby son for the first time in months he is “tight-swaddled, rolled in bandages, strapped on a swaddling board.” “I held out my arms to him and his nurse passed him over to me, like a