How to pronounce “cradling” in English

cradling it with one hand while rubbing it with the other I relax it's tough and

He was cradling my lap-- sorry.

But in this case this urchin was cradling this beautiful little crab, and I thought, oh, they're wonderful together.

I mean, my wife-- somehow I have a hard time envisioning my wife and me cradling a couple of shotguns, waiting for the starving hordes to come up and--

approaches my table with the requested volume in her gloved hands as if she were a Somali a cradling a rare vintage

I palm the rough, sandy surface of the boulder to my left, warmed by the sun, cradling sand in its pocks in green ridges