Baby tied in a bundle, asleep, in a Pathan household near Zarat, Pakistan, Asia

Mummy and jars from the time of the Nazca, 200 BC - 700 AD, at Cementerio Arqueologico Chauchillo, Nazca, southern Peru, South America

Male mannequin, head wrapped in gold paper, Koenigsallee, Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Stephan Begay, five week old Native American Indian baby naps swaddled on a backboard at home on the Navajo Reservation in Northeastern Arizona on March 22, 2007. The baby's mother is Hopi and the father is Navajo, so the baby is part of two tribes. There is a small Hopi Reservation in Kykotsmovi Arizona that is located within the very large Navajo reservation in the northeastern corner of the state, yet intermarriage is rare. Babies are kept on traditional backboards until they start to crawl.

Newborn baby in mother's arms in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Newborn baby in mother's arms at home, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Newborn baby in mother's arms at home, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

A mother's arms and hands cradle a swadled baby girl as she looks up to her mother, Sorrento, British Columbia, Canada

Portrait of a father holding his newborn baby, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Newborn baby girl wrapped in a blanket and sleeping on her father's lap; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Newborn baby in mother's arms at home, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Portrait of swaddled newborn boy (0-1 months)

Overhead view of newborn baby boy (0-1 months) swaddled in blanket