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Hair dye while pregnant?
Since DH and I just decided a couple weeks ago that we're going to start TTC in the next month or two, I haven't had a chance to talk to my OBGYN or anything about getting pregnant yet, so you're my best resources for answering questions/giving advice at the moment 
. For those of you who dye your hair on a regular basis, what did you do while you were pregnant (or what are you planning to do if you're not KU yet? I've read online that as long as it's not in your first trimester it's okay to dye it, but when I brought it up with DH he said he doesn't think we shouldn't take a risk on something like that.
My issue is that I'm naturally a dark brunette, but I've been a medium-to-light blonde for the last 8 years now and that's the only way that most people I know have seen me. It probably seems silly and kind of vain but I don't want to have all the pictures fro my pregnancy with me not looking like "me" if I go back to my natural color before TTC.
So what do you think? Is it okay to do or a silly risk to take? What do you think are the best options to do if I don't dye my hair while KU?
Re: Hair dye while pregnant?
I'd just dye my hair.
http://www.babycenter.com/404_is-it-safe-to-color-my-hair-during-pregnancy_3273.bc
However, I also ate lunch meats, unpasteurized cheeses and consumed caffeinated drinks. As it stands now, I'm fairly confident my kid is perfect.
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I'm 100% with Nicole, including the part about my kid being perfect.
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Well since we all have perfect kids and dyed our hair-I say go for it. I did 2 times while pregnant. I just had my hair done when I got my BFP and just stretched slightly beyond my normal time frame. (My highlights aren't significantly different than my natural color) I had my hair done when he was 2.5 weeks old.
Ditto! I had my highlights done about 3 days before going into labor.
For both of my pregnancies I colored and/or highlighted my hair. This last time it was nearly a platinum, and I had my roots touched up frequently and was assured it was safe.
This!
Well, I am in the minority here, but I haven't dyed mine yet. I do plan to do it soon, but I was trying to hold off ask long as possible. I said that I'd wait until after the first trimester, which was a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't had the time to do it or get it done since then. I am also that crazy girl that won't eat red meat, lunch meat, drink coffee or soda, or eat/drink any artificial sugar.
Some stuff I was comfortable with, some I avoided. I don't eat lunch meat anyways, but wouldn't if I did, and stayed away from all artifical sugar and fish with mercury. But I had no problem with drinking a small amount- a cup to a cup a half- of coffee daily (otherwise I got horrible headaches), ate buttloads of soft cheeses like feta and goat (pretty much anything sold in the US is going to be pasturized), and drank herbal tea everyday (anything sold in a teabag in a grocery store is so processed there is hardly any herbs in it). A lot of those rules are overly conservative, but I don't blame you for wanting to be safe rather than sorry.
I asked my MFM, who sees high-risk patients, and he said avoid Retin-A. That's it.
Hair dye, caffeine (in moderation), lunch meat, and pedicures were fine (according to him). I did give up wine but that was fairly easy compared to coffee...which I tried for 5 minutes and failed.
Thanks for all the feedback! Some of the no-no stuff I've heard about I'm still probably not going to pay attention to (like the cheeses, lunchmeats, coffee, etc) but I wasn't sure about the haridye since it seems like there's such harsh chemicals in it (esp because I dye it blonde, which is more intensive than darker colors). I personallly don't feel like it would be a huge issue, but DH hasn't really read up on it like I have and he's a bit paranoid. Probably the best thing to be would to go to a preconception appt with my gyno and have her give me the okay for it, lol. Hopefully a doctor's approval is good enough to convince him!
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Thanks for understanding
Some people roll their eyes at me and think I'm nuts, but it's not gonna kill me to not so those things, so I'd rather not. I don't think badly of people that chose to either! I was a huge coffee drinker before getting KU and I would probably drink some half-caf, but my desire for coffee is totally gone. Maybe it will come back, but right now, just the smell makes me want to vomit!
This minus the lunch meats
I did accidentally eat feta a few times. I drank about .5 cup to 1 cup of coffee a day. My pg complications were not caused by any of that, though. Andplusalso, my kids are both about a gazillion percent perfect. 
I didn't feel comfortable about Redbull and the like (which I loved me some sugarfree redbull prior to pregnancy.) I didn't color my hair, but that is only because I hadn't done it in two years.
ETA: Luis was very stringent on me consuming splenda, sweet-n-low, equal, etc. I guess he bought into the hype and was worried about kidney and liver issues in the girls...it didn't kill me to go without it, so I cut that out. I drank one diet coke a week (with my weekly Chinese food order...yum!) I switched to stevia while pregnant, and I never went back! I tried to drink a regular soda occaisionally, but sweet Jeebus that was WAY TOO sweet.