by Jackie Bailey | Apr 19, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
Sometimes I look at bubba and she looks just like I used to when I was a little kid, all cheeks and smile. It is easy to forget that she is actually not a mini-me. I am pretty much the exact opposite of my mum, possibly as a reaction, but also possibly because maybe...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 19, 2012 | Babies, motherhood, Uncategorized
Is it wrong to apply the skills from work to your 7 month old baby? I just read this post on Mamamia from a mum who applies her skills as a lawyer to her children. She has spreadsheets and applies the SMART principles to parenting. This struck an OCD chord with me. I...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 17, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
I have a confession to make. Sometimes, I do not enjoy having a baby to look after. Of course I love her. Of course I would do anything, anything at all for her. If there was ever a danger I could protect her from with my own life, then I would do it. But there are...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 14, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
Anything could happen. I was walking to my Pilates class last night, after a good day with bubba. We had managed to convince her to sleep for two cycles per nap, so she was better rested in her awake time, and I had a chance to get some things done between play...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 13, 2012 | Babies
This morning started at 6.00. I heard my bubba rousing, and wished through the wall that she would drowse again. And she did – until 7.15 am! But I was up. I am like a superhero, with special hearing powers attuned to one station: the sound of my baby’s...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 10, 2012 | Babies
I have a new baby. She came into my life two days ago but is already just shy of seven months old. Se looks a lot like my old baby, except that her head is bigger. This baby can stay awake for two hours or more at a time. Like my old baby, she will only nap for a...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 7, 2012 | Random insights
My husband was just reading on Business Spectator, about the anachronism of government regulated, public holidays. The author, Caleb Samson, makes the point that, workers can make the choice for themselves if they want to work on a public holiday like Good Friday, for...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Being post-Catholic at Easter, I think of the Jesus story with a wistful sort of yearning. Good Friday’s service, the Veneration of the Cross, was always my favourite service out of the entire Catholic calendar, even better than Christmas in my estimation. I...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 5, 2012 | motherhood
I have never had a good relationship with the idea of losing weight. Whenever I have lost weight in the past, it has normally been through a health problem, or accidentally, like when I moved to Melbourne and started cycling everywhere as it was quicker than public...
by Jackie Bailey | Mar 25, 2012 | women who write
When I get anxious, I get jealous. It is an unpleasant trait, and one not immediately obviously related to my heightened state of worry, which makes it harder to rationalise away. I look at pictures of other people’s living rooms and think they are much nicer...
