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Is baldness only a matter of time?

7 replies

welshmum · 02/07/2005 08:40

I can't remember when your hair starts to fall out after a baby arrives. Does it happen to everyone? When does it start? if I've got to 5 weeks with it all still hanging in there am I out of the woods?
Does breastfeeding affect what happens at all?
Would be grateful for your thoughts....

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Kelly1978 · 02/07/2005 08:41

mine hasn't and my dts are 3 months. I can remember it pretty soon after dd, and ds, so I'm hoping I've escaped this time. Will be watchign this thread too.

emeraldefmach · 02/07/2005 09:29

My hair started to fall out between 3 to 5 months post delivery.

compo · 02/07/2005 09:30

mine never fell out at all

welshmum · 02/07/2005 11:46

Does anyone know if three months is kind of average for hair loss to begin? Don't want to get attached to mine if it is....

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giraffeski · 02/07/2005 11:47

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NomDePlume · 02/07/2005 11:48

I thought I'd got away with it, in fact I was feeling pretty smug..... Until at around 4 months it started coming out in enormous clumps

lou33 · 03/07/2005 11:17

mine didnt

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