...to not believe that a hair follicle knows how long the dead thing is sticking out of it is?

[LizziePizzie]

I have resisted cutting my DD?s hair (21 months now) as I don?t believe that it makes the hair thicker. Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but hair is dead, there is no feedback loop to the follicle to tell it how thick or long the hair is, so how does cutting it make a difference to how the follicle produces the hair?

It will get thicker as she gets older, she will get it cut when it needs to be cut or if she wants to have it cut. It falls in front of her face, but she is just learning to brush it out of her eyes and tolerate wearing a hair clip.

I am happy, she doesn't care, so why does everyone feel they needd to tell me to get my DD hair cur "Because it will grow back thicker?"!!

I grows back with the appearance of thicker because the ends will be blunt cut, rather than natural.

Or so I've been told.

But if you don't want to cut her hair, don't cut her hair.

Now that makes sense!

What tee said.

this may be an perception thing... i regularly got my DD hair cut and it is now thick and healthy. My Dsis let her DD's hair grow because it was so thin. its still thin.

it may have something to do with the haircuts. it may just be the hair type.

whatever happens.... it'll grow back!

It's like when you shave your legs - the hair doesn't grow back thicker - it just grows back because you have cut it off blunt.

The follicle doesn't know how long the hair is but it will have an idea of how much it weighs and how much it needs to work to keep the hair in place :)

It won't make any difference to whether the hair will grow back thicker though

dd1 has thin hair. dd2 has thick curly hair.

I never cut either till they needed it.

Baby hair is thin, though, and starts to get coarser at around 3 Yo, so if you leave the hair that grew as a baby on the ends, all the hair will still look and feel fine (it's got 3 year's growth at teh ends, after all!).
As it grows, and the child gets older, it is unusual to never even trim it, so that baby hair will gradually get trimmed off, leaving the coarser hair (as well as the blunt ends), so it seems as though it is the cutting of it that makes it thicker.

Have I just garbled all of that or does it make sense? [unsure] !

no difference at all.
i never cut my hair and it looks thin, but when i did cut my hair, it was still thin.

the only thing that had any effect on the thickness of my hair was pregnancy, cos none of it fell out.

sexy - that makes perfect sense.

YANBU
People who believe there is a correlation are wrong.

I am glad everyone knows what I am moaning about! :o

Thank you all for the amunition to contimue to moan back at who ever tells me to cut my DD's hair again!

ammunition and continue - I can't spell!