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Jaimee Peasley

@jaimee_peasley

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🎬 Producer @patchproductions.com.au
💁‍♀️ Actor @loxtonmanagement @allhearttalent
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❤️ @danielgawned ,Patch🐶 & Leighton👶

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CONTENT WARNING: Pregnancy loss & mental health 🤍

Why isn’t psychological and physical follow-up after pregnancy loss as automatic and normalised as the mental-health checks I received after bringing home a living baby?

This week, a child health nurse sat in our living room for more than an hour.

She checked our baby. Then she checked us.

She asked about my mental health. She asked about my husband’s. She wanted to know who our support people were. How far away they lived. What their availability was like. She gave us resources in case either of us began struggling. Signed me up to a mother’s group before she even set foot in our home. Before we’d even brought our baby home from hospital, we’d been asked similar questions.

And sitting there, I suddenly became furious.
Not because I was ungrateful for this type of support.

Because no medical professionals asked me those questions when my babies died.

And now my question now is: why the fuck not?

You shouldn’t have to already know that miscarriage can cause depression, trauma, anxiety or PTSD, know what a Mental Health Treatment Plan is, find the right service, make the GP appointment and advocate for yourself while you’re the person who is drowning.

The visit this week showed me what the alternative can look like. What it SHOULD look like. Something needs to change.

Postpartum does not only affect women whose babies make it to earth side. When you miscarry, you still go through the physical changes (which is not “just” a heavy period), the hormone crashes and the psychological effects. Sometimes, your body is holding on to that pregnancy, even after you get confirmation that your baby has passed away. Sometimes, this can last for months. Yet there is no official postpartum depression diagnoses for women experiencing miscarriage, and there are no routine or formal follow ups.

Further, couples are often not referred to a fertility specialist until they have had 3 losses.

One loss is traumatic enough.

Once you get a positive test, you are a mother. Not just a “common” 1 in 4 statistic.

And you deserve to be cared for in the way that you would had your baby lived.

Someth by @jaimee_peasley

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a month ago

CONTENT WARNING: Pregnancy loss & mental health 🤍

Why isn’t psychological and physical follow-up after pregnancy loss as automatic and normalised as the mental-health checks I received after bringing home a living baby?

This week, a child health nurse sat in our living room for more than an hour.

She checked our baby. Then she checked us.

She asked about my mental health. She asked about my husband’s. She wanted to know who our support people were. How far away they lived. What their availability was like. She gave us resources in case either of us began struggling. Signed me up to a mother’s group before she even set foot in our home. Before we’d even brought our baby home from hospital, we’d been asked similar questions.

And sitting there, I suddenly became furious.
Not because I was ungrateful for this type of support.

Because no medical professionals asked me those questions when my babies died.

And now my question now is: why the fuck not?

You shouldn’t have to already know that miscarriage can cause depression, trauma, anxiety or PTSD, know what a Mental Health Treatment Plan is, find the right service, make the GP appointment and advocate for yourself while you’re the person who is drowning.

The visit this week showed me what the alternative can look like. What it SHOULD look like. Something needs to change.

Postpartum does not only affect women whose babies make it to earth side. When you miscarry, you still go through the physical changes (which is not “just” a heavy period), the hormone crashes and the psychological effects. Sometimes, your body is holding on to that pregnancy, even after you get confirmation that your baby has passed away. Sometimes, this can last for months. Yet there is no official postpartum depression diagnoses for women experiencing miscarriage, and there are no routine or formal follow ups.

Further, couples are often not referred to a fertility specialist until they have had 3 losses.

One loss is traumatic enough.

Once you get a positive test, you are a mother. Not just a “common” 1 in 4 statistic.

And you deserve to be cared for in the way that you would had your baby lived.

Something needs to change. by @jaimee_peasley

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a month ago

Best Fathers Day gift ever 🩷🩷 Little Leighton G! We’ve waited a long time to meet you & we couldn’t love you more if we tried!! Thanks for making me the proudest husband & girl dad 🥹🥰 your mum is the strongest person you’ll ever meet, so I know you’ll be just fine (oh & Patchy if very excited to be your big brother! @jaimee_peasley by @jaimee_peasley

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Today is National Rainbow Baby Day. A day recognising babies born after miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss, and the families who carry both extraordinary love and extraordinary grief. We are now just days/weeks away from hopefully meeting our own triple rainbow baby. 🌈🌈🌈

And one thing I have learned over the past few years is that the rainbow doesn’t make the storm disappear.
Pregnancy loss can be an incredibly invisible and misunderstood grief. There are no photographs on the mantelpiece. Often no funeral. No maternity leave. No obvious empty chair at Christmas. The world can move on remarkably quickly, while for the person grieving, their entire understanding of themselves, their body and their future has changed.

And sometimes, while someone is desperately trying to swim, people standing safely on the shore judge the way they are doing it.

Why aren’t they coming to things anymore?
Why haven’t they replied?
Why can’t they be happy for someone else?
Why are they avoiding babies or pregnancies?
Why aren’t they “back to normal” yet?

Sometimes withdrawal isn’t rejection. Sometimes it’s survival. Sometimes the person who isn’t showing up is using every ounce of energy they have just to keep showing up for work.

Sometimes someone can be genuinely happy for you and still need to protect themselves from something that reminds their body of what they have lost.
Sometimes grief doesn’t look particularly graceful.
I know mine didn’t. There were times I withdrew. Times I couldn’t attend things. Times I took a long time to reply to messages. Times I couldn’t look at a pregnant belly without my heart racing and my body becoming so tense that I struggled to breathe.

I wish that hadn’t been my experience. I wish I could have continued being exactly the same person I had always been.

But I couldn’t.

I was grieving my babies.

And grief doesn’t operate according to somebody else’s timetable. *continued in comments by @jaimee_peasley

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We honestly weren’t prepared for the response to our post. 🤍

We have read every single comment and private message, and we are completely overwhelmed by the kindness, vulnerability and generosity people have shown us.

So many people have written to us and shared their own stories of miscarriage, infertility, pregnancy after loss and loving babies you never got to bring home. Others have reached out simply to say thank you for talking about something that can be incredibly difficult to put into words. We are so grateful. Grateful beyond words 🥹🫶

I want to reply properly to every single person who has taken the time to write to us. There are hundreds of messages, so it may take me a little while, but please know that I have read them. I see you. And your stories.

I hope that one day soon, there is a world in which we can all hold space for something that has felt taboo, brushed aside, awkward and sometimes shameful. After all, isn’t that why they tell us to wait 12 weeks “announce”? Or why the medical industry makes us wait until we have three losses to start an investigation. As if one, or even two miscarriages, doesn’t turn your entire world upside down. I hope that we can normalise acknowledging each other’s babies, earth side or not, share experiences, honour those due dates, offer hope, or simply say “me too.” That is exactly why we decided to share.

For a long time, I think I made myself smaller when talking about pregnancy loss because I worried about making other people uncomfortable. Sharing our story so openly and seeing the response, has reminded me how important it can be to make space for the uncomfortable things too.

There is so much about miscarriage, infertility, grief and pregnancy after loss that I still want to talk about. There are parts of our story I’ve written about privately for a long time and, when we feel ready, I think I’d like to start sharing some of them. I don’t want to shut up about it anymore, just to avoid discomfort around grief. *continued in comments by @jaimee_peasley

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2 months ago

TRIGGER WARNING: pregnancy, pregnancy loss miscarriage & infertility
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We have kept something very precious very quiet for a very long time.
After three pregnancy losses, a partial molar and a very real cancer scare, along with many trips to our wonderful fertility clinic, we are incredibly grateful to share that our triple rainbow baby is due to join us very soon. Cl
We are 36 weeks pregnant.
We thought long and hard about whether, and how, to share this. Because for a long time, pregnancy announcements were incredibly difficult for us to see.
Pregnancy loss and infertility can be profoundly lonely. There often isn’t much space in the world to grieve babies you never got to bring home, or the future you had already started imagining. Life keeps moving around you. People get pregnant. Babies are born. And you’re somehow expected to keep participating in a world that can feel like a constant reminder of what you’ve lost. You can start associating pregnancy with trauma, rather than something beautiful and hopeful. The world does not accept that you are still a parent, and nothing prepares you for leaving the hospital without your baby, or returning to pick up their ashes. Yet, your still expected to return to work the next day, put a smile on your face, and go through the postpartum hormone drop with no support.
*continued in comments by @jaimee_peasley

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2 months ago

I had an incredible time on set in Kalgoorlie this week shooting the @stanaustralia series Two Birds. Grateful to reconnect with some amazing humans, and meet some new faces. The best cast and crew! And so fun getting back in front of the camera, after spending so much time behind the scenes developing projects. 🎬@loxtonmanagement @marthamcoleman by @jaimee_peasley

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Bit late to the party in posting, but @patchproductions.com.au is working with @thejackconnell on this heartfelt and hilarious film Hole In One. I’m really excited to be producing this and bringing it to life with an amazing team! Thank you to @screenwest_ for the support. Now…does anyone have any leads on a golf course filming location? 👀🎬⛳️ by @jaimee_peasley

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Posting this because I know @jaimee_peasley is a humble quiet achiever ☺️ BUT l love that @screenwest_ can see the same talent those who are lucky to work with JP can also see 🫶

Proud of all the hard work, immense creativity, care for the craft & the people JP works with on all projects - that continues to create these well deserved opportunities 🎬

Congrats to all involved! Especially the team @rwhyde & @tim_dean_director - love your work! Daniel by @jaimee_peasley

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a year ago

Hi friends and fam….I am making a film! Next weekend, we call action on #doomscroller written by Richard Hyde - Screenwriter and Directed by Tim Dean. We have assembled the most amazing crew, cast and filming locations. But I really need your help! We are self financing everything from camera and lighting equipment, costume, prosthetics and fake blood, and catering. If anyone has any $$ to spare, I would reallly really appreciate your support. Plus it’s tax deductible (except for family….sorry fam 😂). You’ll see your name up on that big screen in the thank you credits also!
Thank you so much for those who have already donated. Your support means the world to our little creative team ❤️🫶
Watch this space 🎬🎥

https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn00000MDhVW/doomscroller-a-hor taken in Perth, Western Australia by @jaimee_peasley

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Please donate to help us make this horror film!! https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn00000MDhVW/doomscroller-a-horror-film ‘You’ve heard of them. You probably know one. Heck, you might even be one. We’re talking about the dreaded keyboard warriors — people who commit unspeakable online crimes.
The scammer who robs an elderly person of their life savings. The creep who stalks and harasses innocent women on dating apps. The “influencer” who convinces everyone that curing her (fake) cancer is just a matter of eating more kale. Or the troll sending death threats to celebrities.
Now, imagine if a group of these digital misfits were locked in a house as punishment—just for our entertainment.
Six strangers wake up in a mysterious house with no idea how they got there. The only thing they have in common? A dark online secret.
But here’s the twist: their phones are glued to their hands, and a malevolent voice warns them that if the battery hits zero percent, their phones will explode.
What happens next? Are they being pranked? Will they team up, or will the pressure tear them apart? And will anyone make it out alive, or will they all go boom?
Thanks to #doomscroller, you don’t have to imagine.
We’re creating a high-concept horror film that blends the psychological intensity of Se7en with the dark humor of The Menu. But to bring this twisted vision to life, we need your help.
We’re raising funds to create a proof-of-concept short film to pitch #doomscroller to investors, distributors, and funding bodies. Your contributions will help cover costs like camera equipment, lighting, prosthetics, props, and visual effects — everything needed to make this nightmare a reality.
The world of filmmaking is expensive, but we promise you this: it’ll be worth it.
Now, go ahead and get back to doomscrolling… but you have been warned— being glued to your phone has never been this deadly. (Mwahaha!)
Thank you so much for your support — we couldn’t do this without you!’ taken in Perth, Western Australia by @jaimee_peasley

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2 years ago

Throw back to earlier this year producing @truth_to_power_film short film. So lucky to to be working with creatives I admire this much 💕❤️ phenomenal creative team, cast and crew. Also, I had my birthday on set and it was my favourite birthday to date!!! @rwhyde @tim_dean_director @mylespollard @carolinebrazier by @jaimee_peasley

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