Is a baby a "it"?

From AHD
Used to refer to that one previously mentioned. Used of a nonhuman entity; an animate being whose sex is unspecified, unknown, or irrelevant; a group of objects or individuals; an action; or an abstraction:

I just read such a horrible sentence from a book.

Have you decided to breast-feed your baby or feed it infant formula?


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Maybe it is just a 1-month-old baby. Sex remains mysterious.

:)

I suppose the author wanted to avoid using him or her. I don't find it that shocking, since it's not his or her baby :-)

FRC

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Originally Posted by blacknomi

From AHD
Used to refer to that one previously mentioned. Used of a nonhuman entity; an animate being whose sex is unspecified, unknown, or irrelevant; a group of objects or individuals; an action; or an abstraction:

I just read such a horrible sentence from a book.

Have you decided to breast-feed your baby or feed it infant formula?


:!: :!: :!:

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A baby of undetermined gender is often called "it", but not usually around its mother. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Thanks, Mike.