But for the unfledged, it’s not that easy or welcoming.

“Boy and girl. Aren’t they beauties?” said the proud papa, beaming upon the little red squirmers as if they were unfledged angels.

“He looks so different,” he says after a long minute, gazing down at the baby Henry on the page and his easy, unfledged sureness.

What do you do when your wacky stage play is bordering on unfledged critical catastrophe?

"Aha," I said to my unfledged self, "No wonder so many people make derisive comments about this stuff."