It’s over. My body is releasing the hormones from pregnancy and making my hair fall out.
BUMMER.
The hair around what used to be my hairline is sparse and because of how dark my hair is, looks totally bald. It is so not cute.
Preggos beware: Your hair will fall out after birth. Then, you’ll look bald around your hairline, only to have the wispy corona of new hair when it starts growing in.
I recommend brushing your hair thoroughly before a shower to get all the loose hair out so it doesn’t clog your drains. We have had to have the maintenance guy come into snake it. Gross!
My hair falls out when I’m just pulling it back, it’s SO easy to come out.
Please, look away, I’m hideous.
She clings to her Lovey!
My girl is four months old. With that comes a 15 lb 6 ounce weight, 24.5 inches of length, and an itchy case of eczema.
At her appointment she was her usual cheerful self, my little nudist enjoyed hanging out without her diaper, as well as glancing at herself in the mirror (I’d post a pic but my stupid phone is in my Dad’s car). Until the shots hit. Then my poor love was inconsolable, only stopping her shrieking to nurse. The tears running down her face, the bloody band-aids I removed a few days later. Ugh. It’s enough to make your stomach hurt. Luckily, she seems to have gotten over the pain, though, and with only a mild fever side effect, we’re none the worse.
Four months old, and Piper can sit in my lap holding her head up…
she can grab her feet…
Look what I can do!
roll onto her side …
Always with the Lovey
and she CAN, but rarely DOES sleep through the night. In fact, she didn’t wake up until 6am Saturday morning, after going down at 8:30pm. Since then, she’s woken up many times a night- I believe this is what the books call “4 Month Wakeful”. I can tell you- it SUCKS. Especially after getting used to getting up once a night.
Piper’s new favorite thing (which may get her kicked out of our room at night) is picking her legs up in the air and letting them drop to the ground with a slam. She does this ALL NIGHT. In her SLEEP. It’s like an earthquake every night over there. She does it awake AND asleep. When asked about it, the pediatrician said it was normal and, “She may have done it once and liked it, so she wants to do it again.” I’m sorry, but that is the cutest thing I’ve ever heard. A few friends of mine have said their babies did it too, I hope it’s a phase she grows out of quickly.
As I said, she is still in our room in her bassinet. After last night, when she wasn’t fussing, just picking her legs up and dropping them, I couldn’t sleep. The four times she woke up last night plus the sound of her slamming legs kept me awake all night. So, I’m considering moving her in her bassinet into her room, probably not tonight, but tomorrow night. Why?
We’re taking our first family trip! We’re taking two days off work and driving up to Santa Barbara and staying in Solvang, CA.
Ready, Mama!
We’ve got reservations at a place with a heated pool, swim diapers galore, and the dog with dad. Woohoo!
So, I won’t try moving her to her crib until after we take the bassinet to the hotel with us, since I think it’s foolish to try to swap her to the crib for one night, totally throw off her routine for a night and put her in her OLD bed, THEN come home and try the crib again. Still, if she does the foot slamming routine tonight, she’s getting rolled into the nursery. She can stay awake and play as long as she feels up to, but no way am I going to be kept awake to listen to it. So you don’t think I’m an animal, we do have a monitor and it WILL be on.
Busy week for Piper!
