Usage Note
Baby is an English borrowing used in informal French, most often inside compounds such as baby-foot (table football) and baby-sitting. As a standalone affectionate term it is colloquial; the neutral French word for an infant is bébé.
Examples
"Oh, quel beau baby !"
Natural Translation
Oh, what a beautiful baby!

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