Part of a photo montage of his life shows Mr. Rostropovich as a baby cradled in a cello case, an indication of his early inclination toward music.

They found Tempest ensconced in the big four-poster bed with her baby cradled in her arms.

She had evidently learned how helpless the human cub was, and was keeping her body between her own rambunctious kid and the baby cradled in the straw.

For his mother, Mary, stood in the open front door of the house, the baby cradled in her arms.

Lying in bed that November day, Wilson looked at the baby cradled in her arms and felt dizzy at the sight of his uncanny resemblance to his brother.

In its place another target filled the doorway, this one a young woman with a baby cradled in her arms.

But for a moment he did nothing - simply stood there in hazy sunshine by the driver's door, head down, the baby cradled in his arms.

When Mr. Schoelkopf heard about the bewildered five-foot baby being cradled on that Delaware beach, he said: "Oh-oh."

Wulfgar bowed to Meralda one last time, then, with the baby cradled in his big arms, he turned and left the room.

The family had asked the funeral director to bury the baby cradled in Joel Good's arms.