Adults referring to themselves as 'baby'

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I work with a woman who, at 33, is the youngest person in our workplace. She keeps referring to herself as 'the baby of the office'.

I also know someone who is in her forties and the youngest of her siblings and calls herself 'the baby of the family'.

AIBU to find grown adults referring to themselves as a baby really annoying and cringey?

There was a trend in the early noughties iirc where grown women wore cutesy backpacks with babyish toys attached and also wore their hair in bunches. Even as a teenager it gave me the boak. I mean grown women, in their thirties. Wtf was that about? Cringe.

I was told off once by a "friend" for telling DS to "Brush your teeth, babe". He was 2.

Apparently me calling him babe was a sexual term that was completely unsuitable. Babe is short for baby. He was my baby.

People are fucking weird.

I do call my babies ‘babe’ and ‘my baby’, ‘babycakes’ . Not a sexual term. Weirdo who said that^^ to you!

I call my 2 babe. Always have done!

Calling your child babe or baby if one thing.

But grown adults describing themselves as the baby of the family/office/group is really annoying. As if they expect everyone to pander to them and treat them like a child.
Grow up!

I only know lbs person who does this thank feck and I think she does it to appear cute, sweet and in need of looking after. She’s 40

Equally, I hate people who refer to themselves and the ‘mother hen’ of the office/group/whatever. No, you’re not. I can feed & look after myself. Just because you occasionally bring in cake does not make you an exceptionally loving, caring, overprotective mother hen in comparison to others.