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Dr Chrissy Jay

@dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social
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NHS Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist & Academic in London 🇬🇧 #PerinatalOCD #workingMotherhood 50% of @beyondbabyblues.bsky.social #womeninSTEM (bit of knitting & quilting too 🪡) www.drchrissyjayarajah.com

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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Thank you so much - it’s a wonderful Japanese skilled stitch pattern!
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Lyrical excellence from Florence and the machine - can apply this to the academic world too… 🫣 #feministsky #academicsky
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I went to a blue jays game many many years ago! Go blue jays!!!
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Not my 4 year old giving me a bedtime interrogation about why I’m not having another baby ! 🫣🫣🫣🤣🤣🤣
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
250m of 2ply handspun yarn 🧶 complete!! Woollen spun for an airy lofty finish!! #knittingsky
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Oh no! It’s an optical illusion of sorts !! It’s a little purl slip stitch pattern I found in a Japanese magazine which I adapted for my sweater ~ but it gives the impression of an I-cord “faux running stitch” in and out of the jumper!!
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
That is stunning! A Lopi cardigan is next on my wish list! I love your colourway!
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Thank you so much!
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Love the button choice !
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
#knitsky #knittingsky #plutolopi
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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 ! ☕️ ❄️ 💕
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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 👏🏽
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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 😍
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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!
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Still what an amazing feeling congratulations!
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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 🌎
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Just a little sample of my Shetland Moorit raw fleece air dried over a mini bank holiday heatwave ☀️
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Oh! No for the sheep breed study I’m doing I got a sample box from @winghamwool.bsky.social with 8 x100g prepped fibres ready to hand spin!
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Direct from a Farm !
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Beautiful!!!
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
From my memory it was just vagina vagina very loudly sort of in the tune of the national anthem 😂😂
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Out of office on!
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Mine too !
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I was going to ask the same! I’ve seen some people use handheld dog brushes as a small carder! I’ve got some lovely London wool blend fleece kindly gifted to me!
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A colleague just asked how my knitting is going In a big meeting and I genuinely felt like I’ve been outed!! 🫣 #knitsky #knitting
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Yes it releases the chlorine - I knew this but totally forgot !
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
My beautiful highland Shetland handspun yarn is caked up and ready to knit with! 😍
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I was today years old when I learned that you should never put chlorine on urine #mandatorytraining #infectioncontrol #deathbypowerpoint
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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! 💞
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
But there is always a second chance, a way to make something beautiful out of something we didn’t want to happen 🪡
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
#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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Imagine if I told her about my knitting and spinning too …. 🤣
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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…. 👀
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Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 31/05/2025
While 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...
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