4 mo. photo from Button Nose Photography
I started noticing the slight change about 2 weeks ago. Loosened hair would clot the shower drain... more than usual. I initially chalked it up to the fact that I don't get as many showers as I did before nor do I get to brush my hair as often. Thus, more hair would come out during the shower. Oh, no....it's not that.
I'd always learned to expect this natural phenomenon after breastfeeding has ended or when you start your monthly cycles again. At least 3 months from now, anyhow. However, with the equally unexpected return of "Aunt Flo" this last week, it's clear: Mommy's molting!
It's a little known fact, but during pregnancy, women quit shedding their hair. It goes into a "growth only" sort of phase where you don't lose the hair you would on a daily basis. This is quite a luxury for a pregnant lady who feels glorious with her new thick locks. However, all good things must end and, once the hormones start to balance out again, all the hair that would have shedded naturally during the entire 9-10 month pregnancy, 4 times the amount of normal, all starts to come out in bunches. Great! Showers are lovely: loose skin and stretch marks on the belly, and fist-fulls of hair on the floor. Good thing we don't get as many showers now that Baby's here... perhaps we won't notice as much...
Other than that, the girls are doing great. We went up to the Russian River this weekend and rented in a nice house with all of Paul's family. All Ava and Tina's cousins (there are none yet on my side) and her fraternal grandparents. We took up our sea kayak we bought last year just before we learned we were pregnant and had a ball. Here are the photos from the weekend if you're interested.
Paul and I realized, with this being the Columbus Day weekend, that it was a year ago exactly that we found out we were pregnant. We didn't know at the time that they were twins, but suspected since the hormone count was much higher than what they were expecting. The nurse said they were hoping for a number between 50-70. Our count was 215 or something astronomical. Two weeks from today is when we got to see our sonogram and this picture. It seems like much longer than only one-year ago... What miracles they are now!
