by Jackie Bailey | Mar 14, 2012 | Babies
I once explained myself to a similarly anxious friend in the following evolutionary terms: “100,000 years ago, I would have been an ideal village lookout.” When you have a bub, you want to make sure you can manage your anxiety so you can put it to good...
by Jackie Bailey | Feb 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Solid foods for my little girl. Solids! Pretty soon she will be asking to borrow my high heels (or not asking) and I will be researching how to lock the location services on her iPhone Series 12. I know it’s cliched, but the time when you have a baby in your...
by Jackie Bailey | Feb 16, 2012 | Babies
Tomorrow, I have my reunion meeting with my Post Natal Depression (PND) therapy group. I attended the group over eight weeks, late last year. It was a group of other mums and myself, all of whom had been diagnosed with PND, or, as Marg Booker, the counsellor from the...
by Jackie Bailey | Feb 14, 2012 | Babies
I have recently realised that being a good mum involves, basically, being a good person. Um, but what does that even mean? How can you make sure you are a good person? The thing is, when you raise a child, you are teaching that child how to be a person. How to be a...
by Jackie Bailey | Feb 3, 2012 | Babies
Three days ago, I finished reading “How Not to F*** Them Up,” by Oliver James, and I have been fuming ever since. I didn’t want to write this post, as a friend had recommended the book to me and I didn’t want to hurt her feelings. But I...
by Jackie Bailey | Jan 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Our good friends, Rachael and Tim and their bubba Super Sebastian, are moving to Indonesia in two sleeps. Boo! Hiss! It is so very easy to get caught up in the day-to-day-ness of life – sleep, eat, feed baby, sleep, eat – that it is easy to think that a...
by Jackie Bailey | Jan 11, 2012 | Babies
Ellie is sound asleep, thumb in mouth. It’s 8.07 pm. She went to bed at 6.00 pm after a day of record awake time and five feeds rather than four, which I am regarding as progress since the last three weeks have been all about catching up on those lost sleep...
by Jackie Bailey | Jan 9, 2012 | Babies
I know it’s crazy. But I will find something to worry about, and so here is what I called the Tresillian Live Advice Line about today: Is my baby too settled? Ellie was a non-sleeper for twelve weeks. She would whinge during the day and not go back to sleep...
by Jackie Bailey | Dec 16, 2011 | Babies
When I read “We need to talk about Kevin,” I didn’t read it thinking that it was about a mother with PND. But the movie reviews are describing it as such. And I wonder, as someone who was diagnosed with PND in week 2 of her baby’s life, is that...
by Jackie Bailey | Dec 15, 2011 | Babies
Maternity bras are the pits. You suddenly have these ridiculously large boobs, and have to ensconce them in flimsy things that couldn’t hold a pair of empty seashells in place. Some are better than others, and various people have recommended websites to me...
