Ok, so I figured it was about high time I started a hair journal for myself. It's been long enough, eh?

I am currently in week 13 of pregnancy, and am anxiously waiting for the morning sickness:-X to finally be OVER. I keep reading in all these baby books that most women get a magical surge of energy and suddenly feel brilliant once they start the 2nd trimester. Good grief, I hope that applies to me too! 
(I must say though, once I saw the wee one in the scan last Thursday, the nausea didn't seem so bad anymore.)

One of the big things I'm looking forward to as well is that I will achieve "Pregnancy Hair".

My mum had it, her mum had it...so by George, I hope I get it too. So far, my hair feels a bit thicker and slightly more resilient (though that could be my wishful thinking).

I have reached a point now where I am very happy to just go without makeup in public now and show off my preggers glow. Hopefully, my hair will follow suit and do the same!

Oh thats wonderful. I just had a beby a year ago. And the extra hair is good except when it starts to fall out after you have the baby. It doesn't last for some people, I did research on it online because i didn't know that that would happen after i had my baby. I hated it, I thought all my hair was gunna fall out but the info i got said it happen to some women after pregnancy and sometimes it grows back thank god mine did.

Besides, you take really good care of your hair, and most women don't.  So, logically, you are in any case going to lose less hair than if you were an "average" lady.

The thing I've noticed in the last few weeks is that when I wear my hair up in a bun, I have all these flyaway new growths. I'm delighted with it because, although they can be a bit obnoxious at times, I was having some thin spots around the front of my hairline that are now invisible. 
Could this be the first signs of positive preggers hair? I hope so!

I'm gonna get Mum-in-law to do a bit of a trim on the ends either tonight or tomorrow. She does a brill job. It's great cuz it's free and she listens to what I want done. (Better than many stylists these days!)

I need to get into regular split end dusting. To be honest, I couldn't be bothered most days as I'm simply too tired. However, I don't wanna pay the price for my laziness later on.

*Note to self - "Pull yourself together, woman!"* 

Rua,
I am so glad you are starting to feel better!  And congratulations on your new baby-hairs.

When I worked in the salon, I had the opportunity to observe a lot of ladies' hair as they went through their pregnancies.  I did some research on after pregnancy hair loss for some of them and I thought I would share it with you.

According to the medical community, when you get pregnant you start producing a lot of estrogen and your hormone levels are not fluctuating monthly and this causes your hair to kind of stop before the fallout phase.  So your hair thickens up.  Then, in some cases, after your baby is born and the hormones return to their normal cycle, all the hair that has been hanging on,  CAN start to shed causing ladies to panic that all their hair is going to fall out.  It's not.  You won't lose any more than the extra you gained during your pregnancy.  But I've had a lot of clients whose hair stayed thick, and many many of them experienced very rapid hair growth during pregnancy and you certainly don't lose that!  So enjoy your pregnancy hair and glowing skin and don't worry about what might come out later, your body is smart enough to know when to stop.  You won't lose your hair.

I'm glad you started a journal!

strawberryfine

maybe the post-pregnancy hair loss has more to do with crying babies 
(i am just giving a good excuse to make the father get up in the nights  8)  )

Hey Rua,

Could you use henna, or henna-containing shampoos to keep the red with less fuss?  Also, if you do a search for natural hair color enhancers, you'll find one for red hair that is 1/2 beet juice, 1/2 carrot juice that sounded interesting.  And if you do vinegar rinses, try red wine vinegar; I use it and it seems to keep the red bright.

Hope you're continuing to feel great!

Just think; this time next year will be baby's first Christmas!

Well, I tried the red wine vinegar rinse today and am very pleased with the results. Thank you Strawberryfine. This will defo go on my "to do again" list.

It's helped blend the ol' roots a bit so that maybe I can get away with another week before dyeing. (I'm so lazy!  ) It gave a lovely shine too!

Anyhoo, I'm absolutely knackered and am off to bed now. This is Rua - signing out - for now.