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Guardian Life & Style (US) • Jan. 12, 2026, 11:06 a.m.
One look at my baby’s dungarees was all it took to give me the rage
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Why should he, an eight-month-old boy, have more pockets on his clothes than I do? There’s much about becoming a new mother that could be filed under “maddening”.
The phrase “sleep when the baby sleeps”. The way people stop asking how you are, instead only asking after the baby.
The sheer volume of unsolicited advice – some barbed, some so painfully obvious it’s borderline offensive, and all of it totally inescapable. (I suppose I could try living on a desert island, though no doubt someone would send a plane to skywrite: “They’re probably just hungry!”) But it was while doing the laundry last week that I found something truly unhinged.
The phrase “sleep when the baby sleeps”. The way people stop asking how you are, instead only asking after the baby.
The sheer volume of unsolicited advice – some barbed, some so painfully obvious it’s borderline offensive, and all of it totally inescapable. (I suppose I could try living on a desert island, though no doubt someone would send a plane to skywrite: “They’re probably just hungry!”) But it was while doing the laundry last week that I found something truly unhinged.
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