hair today, gone tomorrow

so not sure if i discussed this before but they say during pregnancy you have the thickest hair ever and your nails are strong and grow longer than ever before mostly due to the prenatal vitamins and maybe due to harmones. i never really had problems in the nail department before so pre-, during and post- seem the same to me. as for hair, my theory is my hair got thicker only because it just didn't fall out like it usually did, which is quite a strange phenomenon. i know my past roommates used to complain about how much i would shed...clog up the vacuum cleaner and the shower drain...carpets full of hair...tumbleweeds of hair rolling across the hardwood floors. While I was pregnant, it seems like none of my hair fell out so it was thicker in that respect - I had too much hair - it felt so thick I wanted to shave my head - it didn't feel like the shampoo was penetrating through. it was strange. a couple months after birth, i really did want to cut off all my hair - i thought...oh oh now i see why moms get mom hair cuts - too much hassle - it's in the way. I was contemplating getting the modern day mullet. Either I would look like a lesbian- which would totally blend in in my hood - or I would look like a Japanese wannabe. I didn't cut my hair yet since I was contemplating where to go and then in maybe the baby's 3rd month, his hair and my hair started falling out. He lost most of his original baby hair which was so thick and beautiful - all of sudden he had hair like an aging baby boomer...thinning...patches of scalp...what was happening? the doc said that it was totally normal to lose hair and since his head was growing bigger and his hair not growing back as fast, he was looking more bald than ever before. As for me, the hair is shedding probably the same as it used to pre-pregnancy. At one point, it was a crazy lot but it's balanced out. Now I don't have the urge to shave my head because it's feeling kind of like normal. However I do sometimes feel like cutting it off since now the baby is in the grabbing things stage where he's pulling out sections of my hair daily. ouch.. As for baby, I see he has a few strands of his original hair left - those are about 2 inches longer than the rest of his head..but I don't want to cut them off just yet...and like i said they're only a few strands so i prefer to keep his original baby hair there. For some reason I want to prolong his first hair cut as much as possible..maybe that just means i don't want him to get so big so fast...he is almost 6 months old already...before you know it, he'll be taller than me.