Dr Chrissy Jay
NHS Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist & Academic in London 🇬🇧 #PerinatalOCD #workingMotherhood 50% of @beyondbabyblues.bsky.social #womeninSTEM (bit of knitting & quilting too 🪡)
www.drchrissyjayarajah.com
- Final prep for my scoping review on why women choose to have Caesarean Sections and this one final quote from a Canadian study has got me ♥️ “We must advocate for women, give them voice, validate their fears & end their suffering in silence” @katewomersley.com @medicalwomenuk.bsky.social
- Lyrical excellence from Florence and the machine - can apply this to the academic world too… 🫣 #feministsky #academicsky
- Not my 4 year old giving me a bedtime interrogation about why I’m not having another baby ! 🫣🫣🫣🤣🤣🤣
- This weekend spinning on my e-spinner patiently waiting for my Kromski Fantasia Spinning Wheel! 200g of honor och eir wool batt in the most beautiful colour way “Otilla” a sort of burnt sunset! 🌅 singles ready to ply! 400g total could be a spin to sweater project! #spinningsky #knitsky
- 250m of 2ply handspun yarn 🧶 complete!! Woollen spun for an airy lofty finish!! #knittingsky
- Finished my Icelandic 🇮🇸 sweater made with unspun Plutolopi yarn 🧶 fresh off the knitting needles and needs the final touches but so pleased it’s done ! ✔️ manifesting Christmas Markets & hot cocoa in my future ! ☕️ ❄️ 💕
- Really productive research morning thinking about how we can work better across perinatal mental health and women’s health care services to support those suffering with #tokophobia (fear of childbirth) and #vaginismus
- In research for a medical humanities article I am hoping to publish , you might be tickled to learn that the first ever handheld ultrasound was made in 1951 with a quartz crystal and rubber from a condom that was used to visualise a tumour in a woman’s breast! Absolutely brilliant 👏🏽
- Finally finished my “Tokyo Drift Sweater” 🧶✨ A #MeMade, self-designed raglan with added Japanese stitch details I discovered in a knitting magazine So proud to wear it to work today to my team MDT and perinatal clinic ! 🇯🇵💙 #knittingsky #knitsky #knitting
- Today I had a wonderful afternoon at my local spinners guild spinning workshop learning from an expert! Really helped to improve my technique &learn more about this amazing ancient craft Pictured is my own hand dyed indigo fleece plyed into a candy stripe 🌀 & beautiful marina skua British blend 😍
- I’ve been processing raw sheep fleeces from scratch a project I’m calling #farmtofibre I started off with a gorgeous moorit 🤎 and the rare Boreray Orkney 🤍and now I’ve got myself a black Shetland fleece🖤🖤🖤 A slow process to be spun for #tourdefleece ! #knittingsky #spinningsky #yarnsky #fibresky
- A little update on my Kintra sweater Doctors knit a long group I started! My daughter gave me a gold star 🌟 My main colour is the incredible #londoncityfarmyarn (made from fleece of London city farm sheep! 🐑)& the colourwork is a #scottishtextileshowcase from my #RCPSYCHIC trip to Edinburgh 2024!
- Wonderful Women’s health programme update from @alisongperry.bsky.social on the “Blood in Action” project, embracing the creative arts and community relationships in medical research 💕 so inspired to see the great work happening at the George Institute for Global health 🌎
- Finished my hand knitted jumper! I designed it myself with a Japanese stitch motif (translated with Chat GpT!) and adapted it to a raglan oversized sweater! So so happy with it! 🙏🏽 #knitting #knitsky #memade #knittingismytherapy
- Just a little sample of my Shetland Moorit raw fleece air dried over a mini bank holiday heatwave ☀️
- this summer I have embarked on a wild journey…! I sourced Shetland Moorit lambs fleece from a farm in Orkney 🏴 & am teaching myself the process of prepping wool ! skirted &scoured nearly 1kg of natural fleece ready to comb & handspin! Love the natural colour!🤎 #knittingsky #spinningsky #fibresky
- Out of office on!
- Teaching my young children about using the right anatomical names for private parts and now they have made the “vagina song” which they are singing VERY loudly in the garden ….I brought this on myself, didn’t I? @vaginamuseum.bsky.social
- Last night I stepped out of my comfort zone & attended my first knitting local meet up at my local cinema! 🥹 we had a lovely talk about #londonwool made from sheep 🐑 in London city farms & watched a Sense & Sensibility 📽️ with the lights low (so we can see our knitting!) 😍 #knitsky #knitting
- Starting a sheep breed study where I spin undyed, natural, British 🇬🇧 sheep fleece in an effort to learn more about this beautiful fibre! Study no. 1 : Bluefaced Leicester Humbug Sheep 🐑 a gorgeous soft brown & cream mix ~ 100g spun into a 2 ply ➿ #knittingsky #spinningsky #wool #tourdefleece
- My beautiful highland Shetland handspun yarn is caked up and ready to knit with! 😍
- I was today years old when I learned that you should never put chlorine on urine #mandatorytraining #infectioncontrol #deathbypowerpoint
- I haven’t been on 🦋 in forever but I just wanted to update that I have learned how to make my own hand spun yarn! 🧶 from fleece to fibre this is my first skein of beautiful 100% Shetland wool yarn made on my e-spinning wheel #knitting #knitsky #knittingismytherapy #spinningsky #fibrearts
- Submitted the final edits of my first book! Eeeeek!!! 📖 all about #PerinatalOCD I haven’t read fiction in forever!! Please recommend me some lovely light hearted summer reads (not a beach read more of a staycation city read) I’m not averse to a love story 😅 #booksky #writersky
- #Visiblemending 👀 in attempt to save my husbands Kingsman wool jacket. This type of darning has such a special symbolism ~ we will all experience “wear and tear” in our lives (or pesky creatures that like to do damage to our psyche 🦟) #sewingsky #knitting #knitsky #radicalembroidery
- But there is always a second chance, a way to make something beautiful out of something we didn’t want to happen 🪡
- And by being brave we can allow ourselves to be seen : to let go of the invisible shame and stigmas of our past selves to celebrate the next chapter. Daring to be showcase our flaws is a bold choice and adds character! 💞
- Bravo 👏🏽 to @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk when pushed into a corner to comment on whether certain ethnic/cultural groups are more likely to be violent to women and girls, she replies: “You know which group are most likely to be violent to women and girls? MEN” #micdrop 🎤 #feministsky
- 230 pages and 66 0000 words later…. We have a final edited manuscript for my book “Understanding Perinatal OCD” !! Last checks pending but wheewww 📖 #booksky #writersky #medicwriters
- I find it quite bizarre that a woman dares to shed a tear and show emotion in Parliament and now her job security is being questioned…. 👀
- Nothing like being told you are excelling at your job and have achieved so much in your career followed by a swift “have you considered going part time?” (Basically Because you have a uterus and offspring…. 😩👀👌🏽) #feministsky #womeninSTeM
- Reposted by Dr Chrissy JayWhile doing your Saturday morning clean or weekend run, take a listen to this conversation between @rebecca99.bsky.social @suzypuss.bsky.social and me about women’s mental health with @cambridgeup.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7t5j...
- Highlight of #rcpsychic2025 was finally connecting in person with @suzypuss.bsky.social !! 🤩
