One of the perks of pregnancy is that you get this thick, lustrous hair. Well, to an extent. I have fine but sort of rough light brown hair. Unattractively wavy on its own (due to uneven curling and a tendency towards frizziness), but it’s also relatively easy to straighten. Many a day have I lusted after the almost unnaturally shiny, super-thick, dark brown locks of all about half those other girls.
But even MY hair got thicker and more attractive during pregnancy. Not a lot, but some. The reason for this isn’t that you grow more hair, it’s that the hair you already have stops falling out, so you retain more.
This is all well and good until you pop that sucker out and all of a sudden your hair starts shedding like CRAZY. An obscene amount of hair falls out. We had to get someone to come snake our drain every other week for a few months.
But don’t worry. I know it’s alarming, but this happens to most women, and it will stop. Why, here I am myself, nearly a year into motherhood and with half a head full of downy baby hairs just starting to really grow back in. They mostly blend into the other longer hairs, so it doesn’t look too horrible (except sometimes when I try to put it into a ponytail and have this awkward fringe in the back that’s too short for the elastic to grab).
It’s just another one of those things that people forget to warn you about. There are SO MANY of those.
