Her family said she had been a sickly baby before the event but afterwards she seemed to blossom.
Oh, it was a wretchedly sickly baby; it looked so old and so sad.
The family takes the sickly baby to the hospital where Tora-san falls in love with the nurse, causing complications.
Choosing to listen in the absent priest's place, he heard how this woman had switched her sickly baby with another family's twin.
In many families, a weak, small, sickly baby as she had been would have been allowed to die.
Plus, he's had another head cold recently, and of course the logical conclusion yesterday was that he is a sickly baby.
I was a sickly baby and my mother brought me here when everyone had given up hope that I would live.
His mother, who brought the sickly baby back after several months, visits sporadically.
Often, the appearance of a sickly baby is the first indication that the mother is infected.
Little Willie is such a sickly baby, with that bad arm he is a constant trial.