Baby pulls own hair?

[Gibshername]

Hi everyone

Is this normal? My 1 month old tends to grab on her own hair, mostly when she’s distressed. She’s not pulling it out as such, more like grabbing it but when she’s very distressed; she will grab it hard. She also scratches her face

Is this normal? Especially for her age?

Haha yes, my little girl did this a lot in her first year, particularly when teething. She appears to have stopped entirely now ( before 18 months). I've heard it can be a way to handle discomfort, but when she is so little she might just be experimenting. Nothing to worry about, just try and tease it out of her hands maybe.

Yes I'd say this is normal.
I actually have trichotillomania so I was very worried when my son did it but basically it's just that they've found their hair!

Thanks so much, this is a relief. Google is scary lol!

Interesting to see your post hungry caterpillar as I do have dermatillomania myself (not crazily bad), but my sister did too and I did wonder if it had any genetic link to self soothing in this way. But my daughter seems to have grown out of the hair pulling so I have stopped worrying.

I was really very worried about it but no, didn't amount to anything at all and now I have a second baby I know not to worry. Thank goodness