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▪ I. baby blues, n.1 colloq. (orig. U.S.).
Brit. |ˌbeɪbɪ ˈbluːz|, U.S. |ˈbeɪbi ˈbluz|
[Short for baby-blue eyes (see baby-blue n. at baby n. Compounds 2).]
With pl. concord. Blue eyes; (more generally) eyes.
1918R. Beach Winds of Chance 3/1 Fix your baby blues on the little ball and watch me close. 1943F. Loesser I'm riding for Fall (sheet music) 2 Dud-in' up in my two-tone shoes, For the gal with the baby blues. 1994Homemaker's Mag. (Toronto) Summer 55/1 (advt.) Shadow here. Liner there... Baby those baby blues. 2002Esquire May 64/1 The compellingly vague way he blinks his baby blues (has any romantic lead ever gotten so much mileage out of fumbling with his specs?).
▪ II. baby blues, n.2 colloq.
Brit. |ˈbeɪbɪ ˌbluːz|, U.S. |ˈbeɪbi ˈbluz|
[‹ baby n. + the plural of blue n. (compare the blues at blue n. 12).]
A temporary change in mood, characterized by feelings of depression or anxiety, experienced by many mothers soon after childbirth. Cf. post-natal depression n. at post-natal adj. Special uses.
1940N. J. Eastman Expectant Motherhood x. 173 Most common among such reactions, perhaps, is what is colloquially called the ‘Baby Blues’. 1971A. Phillips & J. Rakusen Our Bodies Ourselves (1978) xiv. 453 By the third day, most women have the by now familiar ‘baby blues’. We may cry; have frightening dreams and fantasies; feel scared or worried by our lack of ‘maternal feelings’. 1995Canad. Living June 53/2 Most of the women who experience ‘baby blues’ have nothing in their past or present to account for it. 2005Baby & You Feb. 64/3 It is also a gentle treatment for new mothers who are experiencing problems with post-birth wounds, breastfeeding, or bouts of the baby blues. |