Gender of bebé

[laepelba]

I wish there was a "new language learners" sub-forum. Most of the other questions I see posted here are much more advanced than where I am in my learning. I am using Rosetta Stone to begin learning Latin American Spanish.

I was working through my most recent lesson, which is all photo based. There was a photo of a woman with a baby (obviously a girl baby, pink sweater, hair in a cute little pig tail and so on). They have been really good about not showing ANY people of indeterminate gender. So I'm sure that the baby was a girl.

Anyway - the sentence that they were looking for was "Este es mi bebé." But I thought that "bebé" was like "policia". Doesn't the article change when the gender of the person is known? Like a female police officer is "LA policia" and a male officer is "EL policia". Isn't "bebé" the same - matching el o la with the gender of the actual baby, if known?

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