A woman in Tajikistan demonstrates how a baby is strapped into a cradle called a gahvora. Babies spend hours immobilized this way, which may affect when they learn to walk. Walking and talking ...

A Tajik woman whose baby died while in custody in Russia has flown into to Dushanbe with the baby's body in a casket. Russian authorities took 5-month-old Umarali Nazarov away from his mother ...

And in keeping with cultural tradition, newborns as little as five days old are tightly bound in a swaddle and placed in a cradle known as a "gavora". They spend up to 20 hours each day in the cradle ...