fractious baby

The sexual life of the young exhausted mother of a fractious baby takes on a dream-like quality.

Justine proves to be a fractious baby, so the Muellers send Meggie to an isolated island resort for a rest.

The drone of something like a vacuum cleaner or hair dryer - so-called 'white noise'- often sends a fractious baby to sleep, or at least stops her grizzling.

Huggy Bear are like a fractious baby, communicating their youthful frustration through noise, abrasive confrontation and complete confusion, screaming out at the unfairness of a world they don't fully comprehend.

If it hadn't been for Ted she didn't think she would have survived, because in addition to requiring a great deal of care Sarah was a fractious baby and Margaret frequently felt, to her horror, like throwing her away with the trash just so as not to hear her cry.

There warn't a hard job that ever I'd hated but what grew easy when I remembered who it was done for; there warn't a trouble or a care that I wouldn't have welcomed hearty, nor one hour of them dear fractious babies that didn't seem precious when I'd gone and left 'em.