Postpartum hair loss after birth: what is normal and when to worry?

[TheJadeReader]

Postpartum hair loss? What is normal what is not???? Please help?

this is after I haven’t washed my hair in 4 ish days? And it’s pretty much like this or maybe a little less on wash days? I wake up with strands all over my pillow? Am I going to be bald by the end of April? 😅😭

How many months PP are you?

About half of all my hair fell out after each pregnancy. It came back but I spent a while with a sort of halo of shorter hair sticking up in between the longer bits! 😆

I am just gone 3 months pp

Is this a normal amount? I’m 3 month pp and this is genuinely after every hair wash. And it’s literally all over my pillows like strands I genuinely feel like a cat!😂😅

I think it’s normal, yes. It was like this for me both times, or maybe even more.

I think I’ve blocked this memory out 😅but I remember feeling like I was losing A LOT, especially whenever I’d wash it. Having curly hair I didn’t tend to brush it much between washes, so I think a lot of it came off in the shower.

It’s hard to say whether it’s normal without knowing what length or thickness your hair is usually, but heavy shedding is definitely part of postpartum. I seem to recall 3-4 months was around the peak of it though for me, then it started slowly calming down.

My head hair was fine but when ds was about three months, I realised I no longer had hair on my arms and v v little on my legs. It never grew back. Never really found out why.

You know that’s so strange you mention that! I feel my hair on my legs has literally disappeared!

This is sort of my hair just washed and dried not styled… I wouldn’t say it’s overly thick? But it’s definitely not on the thin or fine side. I will say it does feel the hair loss has ramped up as my DS reached 3 months old.

I am sorry to hear it happened to you but also pleased to know that I am not the only one with this kind of hair loss as I was worried maybe I am just losing way to much?

Your hair looks great!

Ah thank you! It’s probably getting on the thinner side now I suppose as long as I don’t have any major bald patches I should be okay despite how much is coming out??