Matt Newman, a soon-to-be father, learns the right way to swaddle a baby during a childbirth education class at Boulder Community Hospital. To his left, a demonstration baby has just been given a bath by childbirth educator Laurie Bialick. There were 3,460 babies born in Boulder County in 1998, up 206 from 1997, according to state records. With Colorado now the fifth fastest growing state in the nation, those numbers will only continue to rise. Carmel Zucker