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The things no one tells you no.14:
Hair loss after birth

Mumofsix` featured blog about things no one tells you.

`I thought I would, every now and then,
add a little bit of info that
took me by surprise with my first baby.`

My mood while writing this blog:
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Hair loss after birth:

This does not happen to everyone but is very common. I find that about 4 months after birth my hair starts to fall out. I do not mean just the odd hair but it seems like hand fulls at a time. Every time I wash my hair I need to clean out the drain as it get blocked up with hair. I thought with my first baby that maybe I was lacking vitamins or it was from the shock of birth but after my second baby I tried to make sure I looked after my body well and still the hair fell out.

After some research I found out that during pregnancy when your hair starts looking better that ever, each hair follicle produces about 3 hairs. This is usual but usually as one grows the other one falls out. When you are pregnant all three hairs remain together. 4 months after birth the hormones change and this affects your hair and those hairs that were 3 to a follicle all fall out together. The hair then goes into the normal pattern of growth again of 1 hair per follicle but I get left very thin and almost bald around the hairline. As the new hair grows over the next few months it is lovely and healthy but I go through a stage of having a mullet looking hair do and that is not the look I am after.

Tip: Hair spray during the day time helped keep the hair from dropping everywhere until evening when I could brush it out. It's not nice finding your hair in the dinner, on everyones socks and rugs or all over your shirt.

6 Comments on Hair loss after birth

snowdrop - Monday, 23 Feb
It stopped for me 6 months pp

snowdrop - Monday, 23 Feb
omg! I couldnr believe this when it happened to me, my daughter is 10 months old and the regrowth is so hard to hide, it all the way around my hairline even worse where men usually receed (at the top corners of my forhead) I didnt realise where the hair was falling out from until I looked at a photograph...I was actually bald at the front and whats worse is I had big 'ol bangs at the time. Im all fluffy round the edges now and am restricted as to what I can do with my hair! NOBODY TOLD ME THIS BEFORE!

nancy26 - Thursday, 16 Oct
OMG I thought it was just me! I thought i was going bald! Thank you so much! Good grief it's good to know this is normal for some women!!

TexasTammy - Sunday, 24 Aug
Ugh! I'm still having hair loss 8 most post baby. I hope it stops soon.

baby-n-me - Monday, 28 Jul
Yes I have that now!!! I can see the bald patch on the top where my bangs fall (gross and scary) and overall the volume of my hair is alot thinner. It's slowed down some, but I still see pieces in the shower. I'm almost 5 months from giving birth.

marinac - Friday, 9 May
Ugh.... I forgot about that!!! I had this weird patch, that I knew was missing hair, but when I actually saw it in pictures, it was pretty bad!