Many months ago when I was still pregnant with Zaid, I read and heard about hair loss post pregnancy. When Zaid turned three months old and I had not experienced any hair loss, I figured I was spared that one. But mere days later I was shocked to my core when showering, I looked down and found what looked like half of my hair in the drain. And ever since then, I have been losing my hair one clump at a time...
I don’t mind so much the hair loss, as I normally have a very thick hair and have always thought that it could use a little thinning. But what I do mind is how my whole living space is slowly being buried under that hair. My hair is everywhere! I find it in my clothes, in my food, in my bed, on the carpet; I even find hairs in my baby’s diaper sometimes. I don’t know whether he swallowed the hair and it ended up expelled in his diaper or if it just got caught in his “diaper area” while I was changing him, and stayed there until the next change. I'm not sure which one is worse!
I am tired of picking, vacuuming, brushing and pulling hair all day, every day. I sometimes fantasize about a new invention. A giant hair magnet that you can put in a room that sucks out hair from the depth of every nook and cranny into a giant woven ball that can then easily pick up and throw in the garbage where it will stay there forever. But with no such magical machine on the market I am reduced to having to pick, vacuum, brush and pull hairs from wherever I find them, which is everywhere.
I really cannot wait for this to stop. I don’t care about potentially going bald. I don’t care about when the hairs start to grow back forming short annoying stubble. I don’t even care about having hair that is so thick it looks like a jungle. I just want to stop finding hair on my fingers every time I touch my head, hair on my pillow every time I lay down to sleep and hair in my baby’s mouth every time I hold him and he gets a hold of my curls.
Oh and did I even mention that if this continues I am going to end up being bald?
Let’s add that to the list of post pregnancy state of things... I am out of shape, sluggish, stretch marked and perpetually dishevelled. And now I am also going to be bald. Don’t you just love having a baby?! I sure do...
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