From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbairnbairn /beən $ bern/ noun [countable] a baby or child – used in Scotland
Examples from the Corpus
bairn• My sister just lets the bairns roam.• It's not only them that suffer - it's the bairns as well.• The bairn started bringing his milk back up all the time when he was just a few days old.• Only one thing she drew the line at and that was when the prostitution took up bairns. 