infancy
babyhood
early childhood *

He had worked at one job after another since early childhood.

Can you remember anything of the area in your early childhood?

A boy and a girl knew each other from early childhood.

This had been going on for years, ever since my early childhood.

However, two of the girls and all three boys died in early childhood.

But poor children, it went on for much of their early childhood.

He was married and had one son who died in early childhood.

I have been teaching in early childhood for many years.

For a whole afternoon they had all been happy together, as in his earlier childhood.

Together, they had five children, one of whom died in early childhood.