"Babe or Baby, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion."
Tropes about infants and toddlers.
Sub-index to Youngsters. See also Family Tropes, Pregnancy Tropes, Birth Tropes, Child-Minding Tropes.
Tropes:
- Afraid to Hold the Baby: A character is wary of holding infants.
- Babies Ever After: The work ends when the main couple has kids.
- Babies Make Everything Better: Babies solve all problems.
- Baby and Dog Bond: A dog portrayed as being the friend or protector of a human baby.
- Baby Carriage: During a car chase scene, a baby carriage gets in the way of the cars.
- Baby-Doll Baby: Treating a baby doll like your actual son or daughter.
- Baby Fever Trigger: Seeing someone's child (usually a baby) makes someone want a baby of their own.
- Baby Language: Babies have their own language.
- Baby Morph Episode: A character is turned into a baby.
- Baby New Year: Anthropomorphic Personification of the new year as a baby.
- Baby See, Baby Do: A baby copies someone.
- Baby's First Words: A baby's first words can be heartwarming or hilarious.
- Baby Talk: A character can talk, but is too young to do so properly so they sound "wike dis".
- The Baby Trap: Someone in a relationship deliberately causes a pregnancy without their partner's consent, in order to bind their partner to them.
- Back to the Womb: A character is reborn in the womb, often while retaining their adult mind.
- Badass and Baby: Someone beats up bad guys while holding baby. May or may not be their own.
- Bearded Baby: A baby has facial hair.
- Bizarre Baby Boom: Something happens to the world which causes babies to develop powers.
- A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family: A family that consists of parents and three kids: a baby and two older siblings who are a boy and a girl.
- Brainy Baby: A genius who is a baby.
- Breeding Cult: An attempt to breed a Chosen One or Master Race.
- Brought Home the Wrong Kid: A neglectful babysitter or parent takes the child out somewhere and brings home the wrong child.
- Child by Rape: A baby conceived via rape.
- Child of Forbidden Love: Baby of Star-Crossed Lovers.
- Chocolate Baby: A baby doesn't look anything like either of their parents.
- Continuously Crying Child: A baby, toddler, or very small child constantly cries.
- Debating Names: Arguing over what to name a new baby.
- Delivery Stork: Babies are delivered to their parents by a stork.
- Designer Babies: Altering a fetus so the baby will be "perfect".
- The Diaper Change: Someone changes a diaper.
- Diaper Check: Checking to see if a baby needs to be changed.
- Doorstop Baby: Someone leaves a baby on the doorstep of people who end up adopting the baby.
- Eats Babies: A character is so evil they sometimes eat babies.
- Egg Sitting: Often a test given in High Schools to see how well students would do at parenting babies.
- Evil-Detecting Baby: A baby that can sense evil.
- Fake Pregnancy: A female character lies that she is pregnant.
- Fearless Infant: Babies never get scared.
- Fountain of Youth: Circumstances cause a character to become much younger than their regular age. Sometimes but not always has the character become an infant.
- Gender-Bent Parenthood: Someone who has undergone Gender Bender has a baby.
- Genius Breeding Act: Breeding smart people with each other to create smart babies.
- Getting the Baby to Sleep: A character does something weird to try and make the baby stop crying and/or fall asleep.
- Give the Baby a Father: A pregnant woman marries a different man so that she won't have to raise the baby alone.
- Goo Goo Getup: Character dresses up as a baby.
- Goo-Goo-Godlike: All-powerful babies and toddlers.
- Improvised Diaper: Diapering a baby with something that's not a diaper.
- Invasion of the Baby Snatchers: Kidnapping babies.
- I Want Grandkids: One or both parents demand grandchildren from their adult children.
- Last-Minute Baby Naming: Waiting until the baby is born before naming him/her.
- Let's Have Another Baby: One of a married couple says that they want another child, which usually leads to someone dying, them breaking up, or them failing to have the baby. However, happy examples do count.
- Making Room for Baby: Moving to a bigger place to make space for a new baby.
- Miss Conception: Someone who doesn't know where babies come from.
- Moses in the Bulrushes: A baby is abandoned by their biological parents and is found and adopted by others.
- New Baby Episode: An episode in a series focusing on the birth or adoption of a baby.
- No Infantile Amnesia: A character can remember their babyhood.
- Pick Up Babes With Babes: Using a baby or very young child to get dates.
- Politicians Kiss Babies: Politicians kissing the babies of potential voters (who are usually female).
- Prenatal Gender Picking: A way to control what gender a baby will be before birth.
- Putto: Babies in Art.
- Runt Infanticide: A baby, human or otherwise, is killed for alleged weakness.
- Screaming Plane Baby: Infants crying on public transportation.
- Shotgun Wedding: A baby's conception is the reason why a couple got married in the first place.
- Siblings Wanted: A child asks their parents for a sibling, often a baby.
- Significant First Steps: A baby takes their first steps and walks for the first time.
- Spank of Life: Spanking a newborn baby to stimulate its breathing.
- Spin-Off Babies: A spinoff of the show where the main characters are younger.
- Straying Baby: A baby crawls off into danger.
- Super Breeding Program: Breeding "better" people.
- Three-Month-Old Newborn: Older babies playing newborns or newborns who look and/or act older.
- Tinkle in the Eye: A baby pees on someone.
- Too Many Babies: A woman gives birth to too many babies.
- Ugly Baby: A character who is/was deemed ugly as a baby in-universe.
- Unstable Powered Child: Powerful babies and toddlers who are too immature and lack the coping skills to handle their powers.
- Uterine Replicator: Growing a baby in a machine instead of a womb.
- Wave of Babies: An actual wave of babies.
- Yet Another Baby Panda: Animal videos on the news.