"My baby"

[tocas]

Genuinely not sure if I ABU or not. It makes me cringe when people call their children over the age of about 6 months "my baby". In my eyes they just don't necessarily seem like babies any more. I can sort of understand up until 12 months but definitely not after. I've come across people calling their child of nearly two year old "my baby".
Aibu?

YABU. My 10YO is still my baby

I call my 65 year old partner Babe!🤭

I have 3, youngest is 2 now. We call him the baby. Just easier so “I’ll take boys to school then the baby to nursery”.

Well my son is 12 months and the nursery refers to him and others his age as babies

My "babies" are all in their twenties now! I still think of them as my babies, especially the youngest.

I don't go around publicly referring to them that way, but to me it's what they are.

I'm 54 and still my mums baby. YABU

Also, actual babies are still very much babies until they are at least 18-24 months old. A 6, or 7 month old is still very definitely a baby, and not even close to being a grown child.

My DM was my DGD's baby until the day he died.
But you're not BU to having an opinion on it 💐

I tell my 10 year old and 15 year old to stop annoying their 16 year old sister because she is just a baby. 😁

And my DM still refers to me at 'baby' as in "I'm going to the airport to pick up my baby and my grand children". I'm 45 and my DC are 14 and 11!

Liverpool by any chance 😆

Exactly this and why not

This! The fact OP has no children - or babies even - stands out a mile.

What would you prefer, OP? "My infant"? If I had an 8 month old and referred to it as anything other than my baby, I'd expect others to find it very odd.

YABU. My children are 6 and 8nand are still very much, my babies

Ha! I could tell from first post you don’t have any DC 😂

My son is called xxxxxx my baby boy
in my phone. He’s 20 next month

I'm still trying to lose my last baby weight

Youngest is 24

@Bunchymcbunchface

Slightly edging into nightmare MIL zone with that 😂😂

I call my 6 and 8 year olds 'baby' as a term of endearment. But 'baby', not 'my baby'

YABU though. When you grow and then eject a human being from your body, you're allowed to call them whatever you damn well like

My 13 year old is my baby girl. I am my Dad’s wee pet lamb. I’m 53 😂

Lol if it helps in real life I call him a f*cking moron

My 11 year old is still my baby, he’s not a baby. But over 6 months is still a baby as it’s not a toddler

Quite right. They should be pulling themselves up by their little bootee straps!

YABU. Logically this makes no sense. The next level up from baby is toddler i.e. they toddle or walk. Most babies don't start walking until at least a year old, often later. Mine started walking a little at 13 months but I didn't refer to her as a toddler for at least another few months because that would not be accurate. Even in my daughter's crèche the room she's in is referred to as "the baby room", and she won't move into "the toddler room" until she is 2 years old. My Mum calls my 40 year old sister her baby and she loves it. It's a term of endearment.

Yes @tocas , I most certainly pick up my baby from daycare, even if he's 3 😊 Or "my little one".

My baby is a ten year old Jack Russell.