Two haircuts in 5 years. Is this 'normal'?

[jennifersofia]

My poor dd is desperate for long lush locks and it just doesn't ever grow. Mine didn't grow very well when I was young, but definitely had long hair by 3 yrs or so. She is blond and has fine, dry-ish hair. The hair itself seems fairly normal. She also has quite a pale complexion and is slightly prone to eczema.
Does anyone have any experience of this type of thing?

yes! i had hardly any hair when i was little!
also, the little girl i used to look after had the slowest growing hair EVER!
BUT... by about 5 it suddenly started to get thicker and longer much quicker and now it's lovely

My daughters hair is blond and fine too,She has been
at school nearly 2 years and only had the fringe cut!

DD2 is 20. When she was little she had long blonde hair with curly ends; there was a girl of almost exactly the same age with negligible hair, whose mother I used to encounter at various toddler/pre-school events and who would seethe about the unfairness of it all.

DD2's hair was quite thin, actually, but looked like more. Anyway it did take a while but the other child (also aged 20, amazingly!) now has beautiful long luxuriant curly hair

She sounds a bit like my dd, she is 4.5 now and is desperate for pretty hair. She had none at all until she was nearly 2.5, didn't have her first haircut until she was nearly 3.5, and even then it was only because she'd seen dh have his hair cut and wanted hers done too. Even now her hair is thin and fine, and just doesn't seem to get any longer - it's curly, so it just seems to curl up more rather than get longer.

I have just resigned myself to the fact that pretty hair is going to have to wait - she's beautiful anyway, even if she's deficient in the hair department!

WWB, have you tested the waterproof yet? Does it fit? Is she dry?

Same with dd. She is now 5.5 and last week had her first proper haircut in a hairdressers. I just snipped the ends before. It seems to get to a certain length, then just stops growing. Probably the curls - It just never looks longer! It is gorgeous though and naturally, she wants straight hair! lol

Jan - yes, she's dry

It covers her bum, which is what I wanted - she has a waterproof that doesn't quite cover her bum and she ends up with drips all down the back of her skirt that she then complains at having to sit in when she gets to school.

She's complained that it's not pink, of course, but hey kid, them's the breaks

Thanks for that ladies - I guess it is just something we will have to put up with...I was worrying that she was nutritionally deficient but it sounds like it is just her type of hair.