Comments on: 10 questions for my future self

By: Accidents

Accidents — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:12:37 +0000

I would like to say, for the record, that that emoticon was the number 8 and a parenthesis when I wrote that.

In other words: un-authorized-emoticon-use, Internets.

By: Accidents

Accidents — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:11:16 +0000

1) Not sure, I don’t remember my hair falling out at all. But I do have the “quail hairs” problem, where tufts of new growth come in at the noticeable hair line and stick up weirdly through my regular hair. Better? Worse? Not sure.
2) It should, but I’m not the right one to ask. I have to wear breast pads every day, and Hank is approaching a year. A friend of mine has an exclusively breastfed 3 month old and (past the first week or two) has never leaked. One of us is a freak. I’m not sure which one, though.
3, 4, 5) Can’t speak to, though I had different problems and have my own set of “will I ever…” and “will X ever…” [like, for instance, "will I ever feel like initiating sex again?" which is one HUGE for instance]
6) “Regular underwear” for me is comfortable cotton underwear, like we’re talking HANES, but at least it’s the still lame but not granny “hipsters” type underwear. so, YES! immediately! and much smaller! (except I didn’t have a c-section wound, so might not be the same). If you wear nicer, more adult underwear than me, I don’t know.
7, I’m one of those whose feet and hands didn’t change, or ever swell hardly at all. But before ANYONE envies me I’d happily trade up many shoe sizes to not have a stomach that is 99% angry looking stretch marks. There is almost no regular skin left, only creased, still purple, scar.
9) I think so, at least mine have been so far. And one of them includes most alcohol which makes me so, so sad.
10) Got this horribly with pregnancy, still have a slightly improved sense, but mostly it’s gone. So there’s hope for you, I think.

Um, I’m a bad person to ask, apparently.

By: Alias Mother

Alias Mother — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:39:34 +0000

1) Depends. Mine lasted a month or two, but as mentioned above, the regrowth period weren’t none to pretty neither.
2) It will stop. Eventually.
3) Yes.
4) Yes.
5) Maybe. Mine did. Others don’t.
6) Yes.
7) a. No. b. Yes.
The outlook is hazy.*
9) Without a doubt.*
10) My sources say no.*

* These answers brought to you via my Magic 8 Ball.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:43:48 +0000

I certainly have never had a child, but have experienced night sweats for the last 10 years; so good luck with that going away.

By: Perpetua

Perpetua — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:05:32 +0000

I can’t help with the C stuff either, but as for the hair: I had my son in April, hair started falling out in clumps a few months later, and it stopped by October, I think. Now I’ve got lovely regrowth that sticks up all around my hairline and cannot be tamed.