What age does "baby" stop?

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Just random thought.

Whenever anyone (stranger) on the bus / out and about refers to my DS they always refer to him as a "baby". As in "say hi to the baby" or "isn't the baby cute".
DS is 2 and average sized. It doesn't bother me, just glad they're polite haha but curious.

What age would you say lite boy / girl rather than baby?

Any child 6 or under is a baby to me

My DS has just turned 2 and is definitely not a baby to me! I have a 4 month old as well though and he is obviously a baby so maybe that skews my thinking a bit?

i think when they look less baby like. it stopped when dd started looking older, now she is nearing 3 and I got asked last week if shes looking forward to starting school next month :|

My ds is 15 months and still very much a baby (to me anyway) but he's only small and can't walk yet so seems more baby like. Until he opens his mouth anyway!

DC3 is 18 months and thinks her name is Baby. DP and I and her siblings all call her "the baby". Friends keep telling me to call her by her name but I keep forgetting! Poor Baby. DCs 1&2 are from a previous relationship and are several years older, so I think DC3 may always be Baby. But, on the positive side, no one puts Baby in the corner.

My parents still refer to me as their baby

I'd say once they are 2.

I am one of four siblings: 3 close in age, a big gap then the youngest. We still call her the baby (she's 41).

My mum still calls DS 'the baby'. He's nearly 9.

Actually, she still introduces me as her baby as well. I'm the youngest of 3, age gap of 13 years.

When they have children of their own

I think they stop being babies when they start walking and become toddlers.

Where I live you're called 'bab' whether you're 6months,6years or 60.
Guess where.

Coventry.

DD3 is my last and she's still "The Baby" she's 3. So I guess whenever one of them gets old and has an actual baby?

Technically they become toddlers when they start walking and a preschooler at 3.

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In Liverpool, so the youngest in the family is "the baby" or "our baby" till they draw their pension.

When they lose the baby face?

I've got two photos of DD taken 6 months apart by the Nursery. On the first, aged 18 months, she's still very much a baby; chubby rounded face, some teeth still coming through, and she just looks baby like. On the second photo taken just before her 2nd birthday she is most definitely a child; less chubby face, all her teeth through, she's sitting up a lot more and you can just tell she knows what the photographers asking her to where in the first you can tell they're more "capture the moment" photos.

So I'd say around 18 months - 2 years.

0 -2 = baby, 2 - 3 toddler, over 3 is preschool

Wonder if its cost he's got a chubby cute face Still haha

I'd say around three. My GD is a few months off three and you can see the change week by week, from just over two. She's understanding more and is starting to be capable of more reasoning, self discipline etc.