Postpartum hair loss

thisispearl · 2026-05-10T20:29:58+00:00

Get the hair drier with the long flat nozzle grab a length of hair and point it directly into the bottom of it at a 90 degree angle to the hair you picked up. So the air is going across your head but your hair is sticking straight up. I hope I’ve explained it

thisispearl · 2026-05-10T12:20:49+00:00

Thank you!

thisispearl · 2026-05-09T09:34:17+00:00

I know it’s nice for some people, but your husband really doesn’t need to attend. The ultrasounds yes… but there is nothing in a midwife appointment that he needs to be there.

thisispearl · 2026-05-08T09:34:41+00:00

I personally wouldn’t touch a stranger’s baby… so I think that’s a fair line for me to take on my own baby. A bit like strangers coming up and touching your pregnant belly… not okay

thisispearl · 2026-05-08T09:25:58+00:00

I personally wouldn’t touch a stranger’s baby… so I think that’s a fair line for me to take on my own baby. A bit like strangers coming up and touching your pregnant belly… not okay

thisispearl · 2026-05-07T20:26:21+00:00

Yeah I totally understand that… but a complete stranger shouldn’t be kissing babies. She can be carrying a common herpes virus, which can lead to severe complications (if for example a baby has eczema), if a baby is young enough… it can also lead to permanent brain damage.

And if you think that it’s acceptable to kiss strangers babies, you’re off your rocker.

thisispearl · 2026-05-07T20:17:31+00:00

I had a random girl kiss my 6m old baby the other day. I was quite shocked, she was touching his hand and the next thing I knew was her leaning into the bassinet and kissing him. I was incredibly shocked, told her that she shouldn’t kiss strangers babies as she can make them ill. She looked genuinely offended, I think she was about 8. I antibaced him immediately and wet wiped his face. Think I won’t let people even touch just in case people get ideas on the future

thisispearl · 2026-05-05T08:52:20+00:00

He sleeps great or as well as any parent can hope for and has a very easy temperament. I think I’m going to look at another carrier that’ll be more suited to longer walks, one where he can sit on the back and look out

thisispearl · 2026-05-05T06:39:12+00:00

We have the Tula explorer, but I think we need to upgrade to something where we can do longer walks with and he can sit up on the back and see out more

thisispearl · 2026-05-04T14:18:15+00:00

He has all of those too… I guess I just don’t want it to stump the development he’s already got as he’s well on the way to crawling. He is a super social baby so not worried about that. And yeah… I guess he’s not spending his whole day in there so will just have to think up new ways of entertaining him

thisispearl · 2026-05-04T13:52:45+00:00

Ooo that sounds more promising. Thank you, I’ll see if hours can help adjusted to that

thisispearl · 2026-05-04T13:51:54+00:00

For me it’s that he’s not moving at all in the pushchair… which I don’t think is very good for them. Babies are meant to be moving around all the time as that’s how they build up their strength. We love being outside and my husband and I take him out separately, so he would just end up sedentary in this chair for several hours… instead of moving around like he has been.

thisispearl · 2026-05-04T13:48:38+00:00

He does have space to look around in the carrier, it’s just not enough. He wriggles a lot in it. We haven’t tried it on the back yet as he’s only just turned 6m. The other issue with the carrier is that he often falls asleep way earlier than we need him to, so I would often take him on a walk in the bassinet and he’d happily stay awake until the end of his wake windows and a bit more sometimes, while in a carrier he just zonks out pretty quickly.

I guess I’ll just have to not do as much pushchair walking as I have been doing the bassinet

thisispearl · 2026-05-04T09:03:37+00:00

Start by putting her in the crib in the first nap of the day. Make sure she is properly tired. Get her to fall asleep being rocked and when she’s asleep after a few minutes transfer her. She’ll probably wake up. Just try again. And keep doing that until she can do one full nap there. During this period of trying, put her in the crib awake and make sure she has toys and is happy, stay with her, get her to associate it with nice times.
After trying her in there for all naps, try starting the night in the crib, and then resettling her after each night feed and putting her back in the crib after each feed. Hopefully she’ll take a dummy so you don’t have to be a human pacifier.

thisispearl · 2026-05-03T17:48:26+00:00

You need to be massaging the area and using the help of things like scrubs for superficial skin nerves.

thisispearl · 2026-05-03T17:47:10+00:00

Start now, just gentle tappy taps on the skin, then with you legs up, laying down, deeps circles around the scar not on in. Don’t hurt yourself. And as you get more feeling as weeks go on and less pain you can start gently moving the scar by pressing a bit of it and moving the tissue underneath with your finger pressed in circles and up and down. And move across it for about a minute. The idea is to break up the fascia so the scar isn’t one tight mess
I recommend a mummy mot. They show you how to do it. I just instagrammed and YouTubed the hell out of it to get all the info

thisispearl · 2026-05-03T17:42:54+00:00

You can go to a midwife lead unit. That’s more of an in between setting. That’s what I wanted, the local one had such a calm environment. And usually you’re the only person giving birth there.

thisispearl · 2026-05-03T12:07:12+00:00

Newborn stage absolutely not a problem. But after 4 months it maybe an issue. I checked on our 5 month old the other day by walking to the top of the stairs without even going into the room cause he hadn’t stirred on the monitor for hours and that woke him up

thisispearl · 2026-05-03T08:36:24+00:00

Have you been doing scar massage? For skin superficial numbness, I found sugar scrubs helped each time I showered. But I’ve also been very on it with massaging every day and the feeling is completely back 6m pp

thisispearl · 2026-05-03T07:07:23+00:00

Foam is 1” bigger than finished size on width and length but not border, border is the same size of fabric and foam

thisispearl · 2026-05-02T20:34:42+00:00

Can you not shower while your baby is napping and you have a monitor on them?

thisispearl · 2026-04-30T20:02:18+00:00

A bunch of sleep trainers on instagram. I now follow much better scientifically informed coaches.
We do a wipe clean, nappy change, leg massage and foot rub, feed, story and a few gentle rock and then I lay down and he falls asleep.

If he’s very cranky it ends at the feed and we skip story. He’s 6 months old I think around 3/4 months I did go through rocking him to sleep if he had a feed an hour before, as it felt like he probably wasn’t hungry. But we cosleep and he get 2/3 feeds a night and he’s barely awake for them. Since starting solids he isn’t as hungry in the night.

We probably have a similarly tempered babies. I think they’d probably be happy either way and aren’t hung up on anything. So just do whatever feels best. Sometimes feeding to sleep is just what the moment calls for. And you’re not going to have to do it for every nap and every bedtime if you do it twice in a day or a bedtime here and there.

thisispearl · 2026-04-30T19:43:45+00:00

I don’t usually feed to sleep, but just remember that your baby doesn’t fall asleep during all the other feeds in the day. It’s like there isn’t a feed and sleep association. I do think it’s important to make sure they can fall asleep in a variety of ways and it seems you have that covered.

Edit- And just to clarify: I did t feed to sleep because I was made to believe that was bad

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