“With the current and rapid advancement of AI, Baby Monitor astutely anticipates the horrifying and insidious levels of surveillance that may inhabit the lives of families by 2030. Like Margaret Atwood, Victoria Bailey crafts a timely and compelling dystopia that foreshadows the sinister use of AI, tech, cameras, screens and apps by relatives, physicians, and the state to monitor the health of infants and the conduct of caregivers. Children and mothers alike are tracked through baby gear, such as car seats, strollers, carriers, highchairs, sippy cups, wearable blankets, cribs, clothing, mattresses, and linens. Change tables, diaper bags, breast pumps, and nursing wear ensure they are keenly observed and controlled in ways that haunt the fictional characters and readers long after the closing page."
— Dr. Fiona Joy Green
Senior Scholar, University of Winnipeg

“Taking place in a near future world of 2030 that is as uncanny and unnerving as it is familiar, Baby Monitor provides sharp insight into reproductive rights and the ways tools meant to protect slip easily into instruments of surveillance and discipline. As the main character, Iz, shares her doubts and small resistances through pregnancy, labour, and early mothering in the relentless hum of monitoring technology, we are confronted with the question of who the watcher is: the devices, the state, or the ones closest to us. A must read for anyone interested in navigating mothering in the contemporary landscape.”
— Mairi McDermott, PhD
Mairi McDermott, PhD, is a m/otherscholar with the institutional title of Associate Professor of Curriculum and Learning at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, who is interested worldmaking practices for life and livingness in mothering and education.

“Victoria Bailey delivers a compelling, fast-paced novella that tackles the hard choices mothers face too often. Focusing on the potential negative impact of technology in mothers’ lives, the social and internal panopticon, and gender norms in contemporary heterosexual relationships, this work asks readers to ask hard questions and examine the world around them in new ways.”
— Katie Bodendorfer Garner
Executive Director, IAMAS