by Jackie Bailey | Mar 24, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
My baby may be babbling like my ever sociable mother, but she is like me when it comes to motor skills – somewhat unconvinced of their utility until in a tight spot. Bubba was up every hour from 3.30 am onwards this morning. She sent herself back to sleep, but...
by Jackie Bailey | Mar 21, 2012 | Babies
When I was pregnant, mums would variously make recommendations to me about how best to use my time before the bub arrived. With a certain, hungry look in their eye, they would say, “Get lots of sleep.” “Go out to lunch with friends.” “Eat...
by Jackie Bailey | Mar 20, 2012 | motherhood, Random insights
This morning I had a realisation. It was a bit late in coming, and for all my intelligence, there are some things that I am pretty slow on. I watched bubba play on her mat, and I thought about my own mum. I can be cynical about the world, and right now, various of my...
by Jackie Bailey | Mar 19, 2012 | Random insights
This morning, my husband and I started the first day of the rest of our lives together. Which is what we do every morning, of course. But today, we started officially working together. My husband got up at 7.00 and went for a walk while I fed and played with bubba....
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...
