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a baby
  • baby She is having a baby in the spring.
  • newborn Newborn babies are not able to focus their eyes fully for the first few weeks of life.
  • new baby Bringing home a new baby can be a confusing time for parents.
  • bundle of joy Congratulations on bringing home your little bundle of joy!
  • neonate The doctor headed up a study on perception in neonates.
  • infant Infants under 2 years of age must travel on an adult's lap.
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to treat an older child as if he or she were a much younger child :
The boys were now ten and twelve and didn't want their mother to baby them.
(Definition of baby from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)