Postpartum Shedding
I wore my hair in a protective
style for the last 8 weeks of my pregnancy and the first 10 weeks after I gave
birth. It was easier during this time to not have to deal with styling my hair
or what my hair looked like. But I started to notice is that every few days, I
was losing braids left and right. It wasn’t the normal few that come out that I
am accustomed. It was 2-3 per day, every day. I got worried and called my stylist.
She said, “your hair has entered a resting phase and the extensions are too
heavy for your hair to sustain. Take that out of your hair and come in”.
When I got to the salon we addressed
some of the loss I was experiencing because of the extensions but also the
postpartum shedding I was going through. I knew that my hormones adjusting
would impact my hair but I didn’t realize it would be to this magnitude. I was
fully prepared to cut my hair but we talked about cutting off the dead ends and
nurturing what was there. I wasn’t going to add extensions into my hair, we
were going to take care of what I already had.
Postpartum shedding is a part of
the lives of many mothers and it can take a toll on the way you see yourself.
But when I thought about what my stylist said, I know it was about more than
just hair it was about my soul.
Going through different seasons
of life require different perspectives. Since having our daughter, I haven’t been
able to do as much as I had planned before I gave birth. I haven’t been as
productive as I thought I would and that was making me look at myself in
dismay. I thought that I would be able to do it all, because that’s the message
that we’re given, and I was upset. But when I heard her say, “your hair is resting,
you need to remove the extensions”. I took that for my life.
My daughter brought on a season of
rest and shedding for me because my life can’t sustain some of the things and
people that had been previously attached to me in seasons past.
This is a short blog to start the
year because I think the people that are supposed to receive what God shared
with me are going to get it in these few words.
Here's to 2019!
With All My Love, Mrs. Truscott
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