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Originally Posted by LawrenceDoula
I love seeing all the pictures of everyone's babes. It seems like everyone's baby has more hair than mine!
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bear doesn't.
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Originally Posted by noordinaryspider
One of my first lessons in this new adventure of being the caucasian mother of a biracial child has been that I although it seems to shock people when I bring up how aesthetically pleasing I find my child's appearance, it is okay for me to respond to compliments in great gushing detail, so I can and I do.
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It's quite an experience, I'm sure. My mom got her share of funny looks and inappropriate comments.
The cuteness can't be denied, though.
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Oh, it's normal. There are many threads about it on the long hair community boards and nobody's ever found a "cure" for it, you just have to get through it. Mine seems to be lightening up a bit and growing back in, but apparently a more normal pattern is for it not to star until the babe is about three months old. My usual pattern is for my naturally shortish hair to grow longer, thicker, and nicer than at any other time in mny life during pregnancy and then return rapidly to its normal unspectacular shape after birth. Sadly, I didn't notice the positive changes during this pregnancy, but I do have a hairy baby to distract me from feeling too bad about my own appearance.  |
My hair fell out in huge chunks after bella was born. i had bald patches, it was awful.
The thing that threw me was that it didn't start happneing until late, and it was much more severe than it had been with the older kiddles. I survived, though, and this time I haven't had any major hair things to deal with (or if I did, it was while I was dealing with other things that were SO much worse
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Terran never lost all of his hair and he seems to be growing back the exact same hair in front, although it's too early to be sure yet.
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Bear's lost a lot of his newborn hair. The hair growing in is an odd shade of blonde/gold. I think it'll do what BooBah's did-- start out golden blonde, turn red-red, then auburn, and then an odd, mixed-people shade of brown.
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Originally Posted by Angierae
For some parental humor: I have to share about the 1st time DH and I finally converged in the same universe long enough to DTD again. I've been dying to tell someone.
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Fantastic story. Hilarious, and totally something you'll remember for the rest of your lives. I agree-- stories like this are reasons *to* have kids, not to refrain.
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Originally Posted by LawrenceDoula
Just have to say, we do have some cute babies!! And I'm always so happy to see more bi-racial babes. Of course my white bread genes seem to trump my husbands beautiful mocha skin.  |
I have to say that I find myself utterly flabbergasted that I only have one dark-eyed child. My kids all have beautiful eyes, but I was expecting the math to work the other way-- three dark, one light-- or at least be 50/50. Bear's got the light hair, but his eyes were supposed to be dark like Bella's!
Bear's also pale as a ghost. My sisters were teasing me, telling me he was whiter than a friend's baby (a child I literally call "The World's Whitest Baby" because the only children paler are albinos), as white as his formula (Neocate is utterly colorless), etc. Friends have marvelled at the whiteness of all of my babies, but Bear is certainly the palest of the four. Ah well. I know how to use sunscreen.
I"m thinking about the piercings. I'm still not sure that I'm brave enough.
I mean... my nipples!!
: A tattoo, though... that could work. I don't know. I want something, though. Some sort of body modification is in order, I think. I'm losing weight, and feeling very strong and healthy, and I guess I want to decorate-- now, not later. Now.
Well, I had an excellent weekend-- we went to a Beltaine festival and I just had an absolute blast, as did the children. I'll blog about it, because my blog needs more happy things in it.
It was just too much fun. Part of me is sorry I didn't bring my camera, but mostly I'm glad that it stays in my head.
It was brilliant-- just what I needed. It was less fun for Mike, but the rest of us were just thrilled.
I'm having a happy time!
Have to drive to Lancaster today, but it's all good-- I don't mind in the slightest. Oh, and did I mention that I rode my bike *twenty-five miles* last week?! I did! I dropped the van off to be inspected and rode my bike home. Wow, what a trip.
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I survived, though, and felt better for it. Life is good and sweet today; The Goddess in all her Glories and Names is with me.
Blessed be!
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this is him about two weeks ago.
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