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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?
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?
A baby of undetermined gender is often called "it", but not usually around its mother.
Is a baby a "it"? 
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