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Baby Looney Tunes

Baby Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. Animation preschool series (2001/2002–2005, Cartoon Network) with toddler versions of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Tweety, Lola, and Taz living with Granny and learning social lessons.

Baby M

Baby M (Melissa Stern, born 1986) was the New Jersey child at the center of the landmark American surrogacy-custody case between biochemist William Stern and surrogate Mary Beth Whitehead, whose $10,000 contract was voided by the state Supreme Court in 1988.

Baby Madhuri

Baby Madhuri, born Mah Laqa (Mahleka Bano), was a 1940s Hindi cinema child actress, youngest sister of Meena Kumari; debuted in Sandesa (1940), starred in Bachpan (1945), married Mehmood, mother of Lucky Ali.

Baby Mama (film)

Baby Mama is a 2008 American comedy film written and directed by Michael McCullers, starring Tina Fey as a single executive who hires working-class Amy Poehler to be her surrogate.

Baby No-Eyes

Baby No-Eyes is a 1998 novel by the New Zealand Māori writer Patricia Grace, about a dead baby whose eyes were removed without her family's permission.

Baby of the House

Baby of the House is the unofficial title for the youngest member of the UK House of Commons, decided by date of birth, with no formal duties; Sam Carling, 22, held it after July 2024.

Baby Rani Maurya

Baby Rani Maurya is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who served as Governor of Uttarakhand from 2018 to 2021 and is now a Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister.

Baby Rasta

Baby Rasta (Wilmer Alicea, born 1975) is a Puerto Rican reggaeton singer who, with Gringo, forms the duo Baby Rasta y Gringo, pioneers of reggaeton's 1990s underground scene.

Baby Rasta & Gringo

Baby Rasta & Gringo, also written Baby Rasta y Gringo, are a Puerto Rican reggaeton duo of Wilmer Alicea and Samuel Gerena who emerged from The Noise collective in the early 1990s.

Baby Records

Baby Records is an Italian record label founded in Milan in 1974 by Freddy Naggiar, turned to disco around 1980 and central to the early-1980s Italo disco wave.

Baby Reindeer

Baby Reindeer is a 2024 Netflix seven-episode limited series created by and starring Richard Gadd, adapted from his Edinburgh Fringe play about being stalked. It won six Emmys, two Golden Globes, and a Peabody, and prompted a $170 million defamation suit by Fiona Harvey.

Baby Ruth

Baby Ruth: American candy bar of peanuts, caramel, and nougat, created by Curtiss Candy Company, Chicago, circa 1920-1921 from the Kandy Kake bar; officially named for Ruth Cleveland but widely linked to Babe Ruth, who lost a 1931 trademark case; now Ferrero-owned.

Baby Shaker

Baby Shaker: 99-cent iPhone game by Sikalosoft, sold on Apple's App Store April 20, 2009; players shook the phone until X marks appeared over a crying baby's eyes; removed after two days following outrage and an Apple apology.

Baby Shark

Baby Shark is a children's sing-along song based on a public-domain American summer-camp chant, made globally famous by South Korea's Pinkfong (2015/2016). Its 'Baby Shark Dance' is YouTube's most-viewed video (over 16 billion views), hit No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, and won a 2025 Korean Supreme Court copyright ruling.

Baby shower

Baby shower: a pre-birth party, also called a babyparty or kortar fashadura in some traditions, where family and friends give gifts to expectant parents; traditionally women-only, now often co-ed, with regional variants worldwide.

Baby sign language

Baby sign language: simple gestures, often from ASL, taught to hearing infants with spoken words to communicate before speech. Founded by Acredolo, Goodwyn, and Garcia in the 1980s; independent reviews find no proven language benefit and no harm.

Baby Steps (Olivia Dean song)

"Baby Steps" (April 1, 2026 single) is a funk- and Marvin Gaye-influenced soul-pop song by Olivia Dean, the tenth track and fifth single from her album The Art of Loving, about self-love after a breakup.

Baby Steps (video game)

Baby Steps: physics-based open-world walking simulator by Bennett Foddy, Gabe Cuzzillo, and Maxi Boch, published by Devolver Digital, released September 22, 2025 on PS5 and PC; players manually control each leg of Nate, a 35-year-old, to climb a mountain.

Baby talk

Baby talk, formally infant-directed speech (IDS) or child-directed speech, is the higher-pitched, repetitive, simplified register adults and older children use with infants, studied for its acoustic features, cross-cultural regularities, and role in language learning.

Baby transport

Baby transport, also called baby transportation, covers the devices and practices for moving infants and young children, from carriages and strollers to car seats and wearable carriers.

Baby universe

A baby universe is a small, causally disconnected spacetime region that nucleates from a parent universe through a Euclidean wormhole, a concept central to quantum gravity since Coleman's 1988 cosmological constant argument.

Baby V.O.X

Baby V.O.X (베이비복스) is a South Korean girl group formed in 1997 under DR Music, known for "Get Up" and "Killer" and remembered as Korea's first Hallyu girl group.

Baby-led weaning

Baby-led weaning (BLW): infant self-feeding of whole finger foods from about 6 months instead of spoon-fed purées, coined by Gill Rapley in 2005. Trials show similar growth, iron status, and choking risk to spoon-feeding, with lower iron and zinc in observational studies.

Baby-step giant-step

Baby-step giant-step is a deterministic algorithm introduced by Daniel Shanks in 1971 that computes discrete logarithms in a cyclic group in square-root time, at the cost of comparable storage.

Baby, I Love Your Way

Baby, I Love Your Way: Peter Frampton love song written 1975 for the album Frampton, a 1976 US #12 hit live on Frampton Comes Alive!, later a 1988 Billboard #1 for Will to Power and a 1994 US #6, UK #2 hit for Big Mountain.

Baby, It's Cold Outside

"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a 1944 Frank Loesser call-and-response duet, written for him and his wife Lynn, sold to MGM for Neptune's Daughter, an Oscar-winning holiday standard later debated over consent.

Baby, Please Don't Go

Baby, Please Don't Go is a traditional blues song first recorded by Big Joe Williams on October 31, 1935 for Bluebird, derived from the chain-gang song Another Man Done Gone, and later a hit for Them and widely covered by rock acts.

Baby's Day Out

Baby's Day Out is a 1994 American family comedy, also known simply as a John Hughes kidnap caper, directed by Patrick Read Johnson for 20th Century Fox. Twin babies play Baby Bink, who escapes kidnappers across Chicago; it grossed $16.6 million and scored 32% on Rotten Tomatoes.

BabyAGI

BabyAGI is an open-source autonomous AI agent created by Yohei Nakajima in March 2023, in which a small Python script loops indefinitely to create, prioritize, and execute tasks.

Babybel

Babybel is a Bel Group brand of individual portion snack cheese in red wax, created 1931; Mini Babybel, an edam-style four-ingredient cheese, launched mid-1970s and sells over 2 billion portions yearly in 50 countries.