You know, riotgrrrl, I'm not so sure about that.
We do learn behavioral patterns and unless we are VERY aware of them it is really difficult to stop reproducing them.

Maybe baker's mother implied (too long ago for her to remember) something like: "you take care of me, first, and then i'll take care of you"
If this is the case, or some such thing, baker feels like she is breaking a rule, a very important rule Mom gave her.
Maybe Mum implied that Baker would be a good girl only if she took good care of her mum.
So now she is trying to resist the old habit, but without new patters to rely on, is if she is a ship in the midst of a storm, feeling a bad girl and without the reassurance she relied on for so long.

Hold fast, girls!!
We're going to make it, but sometimes it is rough out there!