1.   She nursed them, but they talked to him, vocalising in direct response to his cooing-even as tiny infants.

2.   A tiny infant slept peacefully at her breast, cradled in a sling.

3.   Instead, it was the wail of a tiny infant that rent the dark night so many years ago.

4.   Research shows that tiny infants can discriminate the sounds in all spoken languages, Dr. Tallal said.

5.   So, too, for Kayla Groce, an infant so tiny she can fit in the palm of a hand.

6.   Surgeons have difficulty repairing birth defects in newborns because the tiny infants have little tissue to spare.

7.   The pregnancy rates are higher, but so too are the rates of multiple pregnancies, with their risks of fetal deaths and premature deliveries of tiny infants.

8.   They were rare enough, but what this tiny infant had was even rarer.

9.   All are now vibrant tykes who barely resemble the tiny infants on ventilators when they were born three-and-half-months premature.

10.   All are now vibrant tykes who barely resemble the tiny infants on ventilators who came into the world more than three months early.