Baby combined "code language" and "documentary" to record in detail her experiences with her baby. The events are humorous and moving. As author Chang Jang once put it, Chien "goes into detail to an almost pathological degree," but with regard to the predicament of being caught between career and children, she "unfortunately is unable to craft an essay with a deeper level of analysis."
《紅嬰仔》採「密語」和「紀錄片」雙線索進行，鉅細靡遺地記載了她的育兒經驗，情節詼諧動人，作家張讓曾形容「纖微到有時近乎病理」，但對於女性在事業與育兒間的自我辯證，則「很可惜地未能繁衍成更具深度的篇章」。