shall I chop off my hair whilst pregnant or is this a hormonal decision to be avoided?

[bohemianbint]

I've had long hair for years and I'm bored bored bored. It's high maintenance and looks crap if I don't blow dry it/straighten it when I wash it, and I generally can't be arsed. So I go about looking like a 70's folk singer. Tempted to chop it off just for a change but then I've been trying to avoid that "turning 30, being a mum and having short sensible hair cut", and I don't want to realise this time tomorrow that my hormones make me hate my hair. Any more than I already do.

Can anyone find Bohemianbint some nice short boho hair? Or should I just do the same old thing and have some more layers chopped in? please help!

It will fall out in large amounts post-partum. I'd chop around 38 wks.

mmm!normally i would say go for it. but think end of pregnancy big face and short hair, not a great look. short 'boho' looks normally tend towards looking like liza minelli. is it really realy long? if so just cut a whack off it but not too short.

I'd quite like some of it to fall out, there's far too much of it!

Oh god, Liza Minelli not quite what I'm going for! Have an appointment at 10am and am thrashing about looking for inspiration...

I went through my pg with mine up in a very sexy pineapple mostly . One week after babies were born I gave it a chop (myself). It is now still up in sexy pineapple as even though it is shorter I never have time to wash it more than twice a week . If short low maintenance hair would suit me I would so go for it as I look really shite at the mo!

Cut it to a shoulder length bob now so it isn't too radical and think again after the baby is born. You will look different but not so different it isn't reversible iyswim.

My SIL's hair changed so much after her DS1 was born (lost its curl, became very thin) that she ended up going from really long hair to a crop. It looked good and must have been a lot less hassle.

After her second baby she grew it back again although it hasn't got its curl back.

Good thing about hair is that no haircut lasts forever!

Don't do anything too radical - have an idea and see what the hair stylist (if she is worth it) suggests...

Babies take up a lot of time and I was quite pleased to have some low maintenance cut for a while...

what shape is your face? are you likely to have a big face towards teh end of pregnancy?

I would avoid cutting it at the moment. If your face does bet bigger (mine got so big my husband nicknamed me 'Balloon Face') the shorter haircut will just make it look even bigger. But, maybe take it shorter to rest on the shoulders, this will take the weight off it, and may even help it look better when left to dry naturally.

Then, when the baby is born and your body is back to normal, you can delight in choosing a new style.
Also, I don't know if this is true, but my friend says that after having children your face has more definition. And looking back at pictures of me before and after, now my jawline is more defined, and cheekbones look much higher! Yay!

hormonal

don't do it

ti sspecifically mentioned in one of th ebooks as a Bad Idea

Hmmm....thanks for all the advice, dult noted. Will just get my roots sorted out and have a bit of a tidy up then, save the radical for afterwards...

oops, meant duly, not dult!

When I was tempted to do this when pregnant with DD my hairdresser advised me not to - she described it as the "pin-head" look (ie. heavily pregnant body, teeny scalped head on top )