baby blue

noun

1

: a pale blue

2

baby blues plural : blue eyes

She's a zaftig woman, with long red hair and a pale rose complexion setting off those baby blues.

—Michele Kort

3

baby blues plural in form but singular or plural in construction : a feeling of sadness that is experienced by a woman shortly after giving birth, that is typically accompanied by other symptoms (such as mood swings, crying spells, and insomnia), and that usually lasts less than two weeks : postpartum blues

Baby blues isn't an illness or even a proper psychiatric diagnosis, it is simply a way that people have tried to describe unpleasant feelings that occur shortly after having a baby and tend to resolve in a few days.

—Jackie Ganley

—usually used with the

a case of the baby blues

compare postpartum depression

Examples of baby blue in a Sentence

She gazed into his baby blues.

She had a bad case of the baby blues.

Recent Examples on the Web

Their daughters, Sienna and Amora, rocked the sweetest pink dresses, while Future Zahir and Win Harrison wore baby blue outfits. —Essence, 21 Apr. 2025

Sterling, meanwhile was in full Princess mode for the outing in Elsa’s baby blue gown from Frozen. —Clare Fisher, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025

Depending on rainfall and temperature, the first-comers include milkmaids, shooting stars, and Indian warriors, followed by California poppies, bush poppies, fiesta flowers, monkey flowers, baby blue eyes, and bush lupine, and finally the heat-loving clarkias, orchids, penstemon, and roses. —Deb Hopewell, AFAR Media, 24 Mar. 2025

The glosses come in three different iterations — Buzzin’ About, featuring sheer lavender with rainbow pinpoints of pearl; Favorite Deputy, with sheer gold with rainbow pinpoints of pearl; Peep This, with sheer pink with baby blue pinpoints of pearl, and Yeehaw! —Julia Teti, WWD, 17 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for baby blue

• accrue
• ado
• ainu
• aircrew
• airscrew
• anew
• askew
• baboo
• babu
• bamboo
• beaucoup
• bijou