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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sometimes I refer to babies as "it" but i think that's an anachronistic linguistic carryover of when babies actually weren't considered people til several years in.

It's common but my family gets really upset when one of them has a new baby and I say it about the new infant because it's theirs.

[–]reluctant_commenter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Huh, that's funny, I do that too. For animals sometimes too. I don't mean anything by it, at least not consciously, but that's an interesting point.