Coddle

You shouldn't coddle her so much. She needs to learn to be independent.

He’s ten years old now and should be able to take care of himself. If you coddle him too much, he’ll be a namby-pamby baby instead of a live boy.

How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas, walled up in inaccessible castles, with a tutor and a library, guarded by cordons of sentinels, sermoners, old aunts, old women from the world without, and have nevertheless escaped from all these guardians, and astonished the world by their extravagance and their frolics?

a coddled egg

It [the guava fruit] bakes as well as a Pear, and it may be coddled, and it makes good Pies.