Agree with all the opinions here - there is no right or wrong in these situations, just shades of gray. I might have said something in this situation as well - can't understand why ANYBODY would think that it wouldn't be appropriate to have the baby and the dog in the same household. Heck, our baby shares the house with 3 cats - arguably, a much bigger risk for baby injury than a lab. I am so proud of our daughter and our cats - she has finally learned to touch them gently and I cannot believe the patience that our cats (in particular, our oldest - Shadow) show towards her. The other day, she patted Shadow gleefully (still a little hard but much softer than she has before) and actually hugged him - melted my heart. I think animals have an instinct about kids and that they would NEVER deliberately injure a child unless the animal had behavioral issues to start off with.

Masaki