noun
BAD : Mr Fox had a very difficult infancy.
GOOD : Mr Fox had a very difficult childhood.
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Infancy (= the period when a child is very young) is used mainly in formal and technical styles: 'In those days, large numbers of children died in infancy.'
To refer to the period when someone is a child, use childhood : 'The old photographs brought back memories of my childhood.'