"My Baby" is a song written by Chrissie Hynde that was originally released on the Pretenders 1986 album Get Close.

[3][4] Vic Garbarini of Musician magazine also suggested that the song is about the baby within Hynde herself, in the sense of "something being born" into a "new life.

"[5] He describes the lyrics as Hynde expressing her "near-overflowing affection in her literate, conversational style.

"[5] Cash Box said that with this single "Chrissie Hynde exhibits her great growth as a writer and interpretive singer.

"[4] Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote in New York Magazine that, like "Don't Get Me Wrong," "My Baby" "could have sounded gushy," but instead became a representation of "a life lived hard that at least approximated some precarious version of settledness.