infant Yiddish Meaning

...nfant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistr...

...nfant on her lap!""Julie, why didn?t you write when you learned you were pregnant?"" he cried. ""I would have rushed up here, we could have gotten married, and the baby would have my name!""""Well,"" she said, ""when my folks found out about my condition, we sat up all night talkin- and talkin- and decided it would be better to have a bastard in the family ...