22 Weeks Along - Maternity Clothes and Problems With My Hair

Yesterday I bemoaned a bad hair day. Today's "hair day" make yesterday's seem absolutely fabulous. I think it's a combination of a few things. A combination of the pregnancy hormones and prenantal vitamins have made my hair grow at about twice its normal rate, and now I simply have too much of it and the overwhelming humidity we've been having lately seems to double the mass. That and I got so frustrated yesterday that I lopped off my own bangs and we all know what a huge no-no that is! They were down to my chin and annoying the crap outta me! I'm sure Rachel, the girl that does my hair, will have some "words" for me next week!

Seriously though, my hair is too long and next Thursday about 4 or 5 inches are coming off! I just don't have two hours a day to spend straightening it and if I leave it curly it tends to tangle more easily and that just irritates me. And there ain't no way I'm dealing with this when peanut gets here. I won't have short hair by any stretch of the imagination, but if I can just get it to a more managable length, it would do much for my level of irritability.

The flip side of this is that it's taken me a few years to get this head of hair back. Chemo and a bout with cancer thinned it out considerably. I didn't lose all of my hair, but it did thin out seriously. I was worried it was never going to be thick again or that I was going to look like I was starting to bald. It's weird but the only place on my body that has hair that was permanently affected by the chemo was my legs. Hair now only grows along the shin bone and in a small area on the inside of each leg. Makes waxing a breeze but it sure looks strange if I let it grow in for a while. Why couldn't this have happened to my pits? *lol* Pregnancy also causes hair to fall out a bit faster than it normally does and at this point, it doesn't bother me when I see a few extra strands in my hair brush or being washed down the drain during a shower.

I'm finally starting to really fill out my maternity clothes. Not sure if that's a good thing or not, considering I've only gained three pounds throughout the entire pregnancy so far but peanut is moving higher up and I'm getting very very round. My clothes are still plenty roomy but I have this feeling they won't be by the time January gets here and I'm as huge as a rotunda.

But I am enjoying this immensely. Especially knowing that peanut is growing and moving around more often and much more vigrously lately. She's also making a habit of letting me know she's there right after I've drifted off to sleep. So much so the last few nights that I've gotten up to read to her. I think that's something I'm going to stop though. Don't want those habits to persist after birth. Before moving out here to the beach, I had been in the habit of reading to her every night before bed. But I stopped for about a week and have been reading to her at odd times throughout the day for the past week. I think I'm going to try and get myself back into the habit of reading to her around 9pm. But in order to do that I need to get myself into the habit of getting up earlier and managing to get a good nights sleep so that I'm not sleeping in till 9am! And now that I've found myself not actually working for the next two weeks like I thought I would be, its harder to force myself outta bed as early as I had been in the past 2 months.

Well, the day is slipping away from me. Time to drag the trash bins back to the house and make myself productive.