Cradle cap and hair loss

[Holymoly321]

DS2 is 3 months and has horrible cradle cap. His hair is coming off in clumps with the flakes. Is this normal and will the hair grow back?

yes, it's normal in my experience. I think a lot of it is hair that should have have come out naturally but is stuck in the cradle cap IYSWIM.
My dd1 had v. bad cradle cap and very fine and short hair until we tackled the cradle cap seriously by smothering her head in olive oil and then 15 minutes later combing out the scabs with a wooden nit comb - you need to do this regularly as it just comes back otherwise. I am not sure whether her hair growth was connected to the cradle cap removal or whether it just finally kicked in on its own (she was 2 after all so had to grow hair eventually!)

yes very normal. ds2 is 13 weeks and about a month ago I sat and peeled his cradle cap off [ewwwww] after softening it with olive oil for a few days. the long dark baby hair came away with it and his short new hair appeared underneath within a day or so. as geekgirl said, the first hair isn't actually grwoing its just held there in the scales. we're keeping on top of it by smooting olive oil over his head morning and night and brushing his scalp at bathtime.

It's very normal. my ds had really bad cradle cap and lost almost all his hair at 3 months old.
We used olive oil every night for a week and then combed and picked it all out.
He's 2.3 now and has a lovely head of blonde hair

Phew! that is very reassuring - thanks all. So is the best thing just to rub in olive oil at night and then brush out in the morning, and then shampoo as normal that eve in the bath, putting on the olive oil again before bed?

We don't bother with the shampoo as it seemed to make the cradle cap worse. We put oilatum bath additive in his bath water and just rinse his hair through with that. Brush head before going in the bath, olive oil after (we found the best way was to put it on with some cotton wool), then more olive oil in the morning. its working for us

With dd we bought Dentnox cradle cap shampoo but it still took ages to go. I just used my Dove shampoo on ds and the cradle cap disappeared in no time. May have been a coincidence though. My nan always used to tell me to use olive oil but the dcs had thick hair even at birth so it was difficult to get to the scalp without saturating their hair in oil.

Shea nut butter (from Neals Yard) was amazing for DD's cradle cap - but yes, her hair went too. Just beginning to come back now a good three months later (the hair that is, the cradle cap seems to have gone for good).