if your hair is like that than natural will probably take right off for you! starter methods only sets the blueprint for sectioning anyways, if you have a tender head you may want to just avoid messing with methods.
congrats on the pregnancy & the beginning of your dread journey. I'm a SAHM to a 4 year old & 19 month old girls & our 3rd babe will be arriving sometime this month 
forget about what your mom says, you are an adult & can make your own choices, if you want to doll them up some you can throw in beads & wraps for decoration (I still have to fend off my own mother as well, it's bothersome isn't it?)
you can dye dreads, a lot of people prefer to use henna so it's safer on the hair (but careful on baby dreads because it's conditioning). you just would "paint" the outside of the dread & NOT squeeze any into them, rinse rinse rinse, & i know if you are bleaching you would only want to rebleach the new growth.
senecathurman said:
Perhaps, but I thought that was bad for hair? I was gonna just do it naturally but we could if you think it'll help. I gotta admit tho, I'm tender headed(another reason I never brush really) If you could see my hair right now, you would laugh your ass off dude. I'm not joking, I look like albert einstein most of the time. no joke
updated by @ixchel: 07/23/15 03:10:52AM
But yeah, I'd be really careful with the dye. I actually unraveled my dreads two months in (nearly half a year has passed since then, and they're definitely intact once again, haha) when I attempted to dye them. It wasn't even a super-conditioning type of dye, either. 
