After deliberating for many months we finally cut Akshra's hair yesterday morning. It was a heart-breaking experience. As we used my hair-cutter to slowly cut lock after lock -- it was so depressing to start to see her skin appear. Baldness in kids is almost always associated with bad things and we couldn't help thinkin about it. Akshra seemed to be fine except when she wasn't! Eventually she got scared from the whirring noise and would not allow us to continue any more. We tried very hard even when she cried but eventually we gave up. So what we were left with was somewhat of a hack job with tufts of here here and there.

Kind of sad but she still looks pretty and it was nice to see her plate finally. Also, I think some of her dandruff is going to get better attention now.

The only problem is that now we will need to give her another close cut.