by Jackie Bailey | Feb 22, 2013 | Babies
It has been so long since I last wrote blog posts, that I want to get some Moopetisms down before I forget them. She is now 17 months old and oh, so cute! She can stand up now, and looks at us with a wide grin, seeking our applause, which we readily oblige with....
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 9, 2012 | Babies
I have had a few friends ask about sleep training and emailed them my notes. I thought I would post them here too, in case anyone else finds them useful. I got a lot of advice from friends myself, especially Kate Pounder, for which I am eternally grateful. Also, I...
by Jackie Bailey | Oct 29, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
My arms and shoulders ache. I imagine it is from abandoning, deserting, throwing Moopet into the baby jail, behind the playpen bars of her new family day care place. Actually, my husband did the heavy lifting of Moopet into the playpen, as I have bronchitis –...
by Jackie Bailey | Oct 15, 2012 | Babies
It’s been about a million years (in baby time) since I last blogged. Bubba is now 13 months old, and such a different little proposition to how she began. I think I need to find another bloggy pseudonym for her, seeing as she is not going to be a bubba for much...
by Jackie Bailey | Jul 24, 2012 | Babies
We have cancelled bubba’s place in family day care. I will explain. My big caveat here for this post is that I absolutely do not want anyone to read this and feel that our decision is any sort of judgment on theirs to use childcare. At ALL. Just as with the...
by Jackie Bailey | Jul 6, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
We had our first attempt at childcare today. In the morning, I was feeling a deep, echoing sort of sadness, the type of melancholy which threatens to gush up like an oil well, the deeps of which would make you a wealthy woman if you could trade in those sorts of...
