Post pregnancy hair loss - any thoughts?

[mongrel]

Hi all,

DW is concerned that 4 months after giving birth to DD no.2 she is continuing to lose hair when brushing/washing/in everyday life/etc and this is starting to be a cause for concern.

We know that this is a normal side effect post pregnancy but does anybody have any comments on how long this should last? Should it have stopped by now and what else can she do?

Many thans in advance for any input.

My DS is 6 1/2 mths and my hair is just now stopping coming out. My shower is constantly blocked with hair!

Took me around 8 months for it to slow down, still lose quite a bit now to be honest (dd is 2).

its 18 weeks since i had my DD1 and i'm finding huge clumps coming out - i'm surprised i have any hair left. its horrible. hoping it will stop before i get fed up with it and cut it off myself! sorry no advice, just commiserations!

my dd is 18 weeks too and the hair loss is really getting on my nerves!! dont mind thinner hair but sick of cleaning it from sink, shower, bath, floor etc!! it seems to get everywhere!

expecting it to go on for a good few weeks longer !!

my ds is 4 1/2 months, my hair is coming out in clumps too! i'm glad some one has posted about this. I have been worrying to myself about it!

My hair loss was so bad I had to have thyroid tests. It stopped at around 6/7 months and now my dd is just 1 year old and i have short hair al over my head and have to have my bob layered to disquise it.

it wasnt till when dd was 8m old that the hair loss stopped falling out as i was so terrified but its normal..

is she getting enough iron?

this is often teh problem with me and pregnancy depleats the supply and she may not have built it up again.

was she told anything about her iron levels in pregnancy?

Also have an 18 week old DS2, and hair still falling out so much that I have to unblock the shower basin after every shower... and I have one every day...

Just stopping at 8m. Is she BFing? Mine got worse for a bit when I stopped BFing.

Just tell her that she stopped losing it whilst preg - and is losing it all at once now.

It will stop.

i am glad that hair loss annoys everyone as much as me - i want to know whether it ends up creating bald patches or does your hair just thin out and then in a few months time grow back thicker/or not at all???

the hair lost after pregnancy is the hair that would have been lost when you were pregnant..you are not losing extra hair, as it were..just the hair that would have gone anyway

boots stock a range of thickening post pregnancy shampoos & conditioners

a good hair cut and colour can help make hair look thicker too!

it is such a faff clearing it up though!

but when i was pg my hair hardly fell out so i had a thick head full of hair

it doens;t fall out when you are pregnant..that is why you get such lustrous hair..it goes into a resting cycle i think...and then what falls out after is what you would have lost over the 9 months naturally !

yes thats correct lulu - how are you? u any better?

thanks ..still got a nice chesty cough and conjuncitivits..not looking or feeling my best right now! don;t have to go anywhere today, so will put on some comfy clothes and chill ...as much as is possible with the DCs!! lol..thanks for asking !! xxxxx

same to me as ive got a chesty cough and conjunctivites too....

i blame you then ! hope you are better soon xxxx

i was still losing it at 9 months when i got pregnant again

ds is 5 months and my shower drain is completely blocked after every shower!

I had the same hairloss from about 4-10 months after the births of my two.

In answer to your question mongrel, mone fell out equally all over so no bald patches but because I didn't have a fringe at the time the re-growth at the front was really obvious and drove me insane! Until it grew long enough to brush/blend in with the rest of my hair it looked as though I'd accidently cut a mini fringe that was a couple of cms long!!