Rubbish hair in pregnancy (pic attached)

[oneOff12]

Hi All,

Im looking for help with my hair which has taken a downturn since becoming pregnant with a baby boy. With dd my hair was so thick and shiny, after hyperemesis until 22 weeks I generally looked great (or felt I did). Second pregnancy however, I feel horrendous. The past week I’ve felt like a man in drag, I swear my face has got uglier. I’d moved onto cheaper hair products due to the cost of living but have now accepted I need to reinvest to feel better about myself.

Problems I’m having:

• hair appears to be thinning on the top particularly at the front. Not sure if I need more vitamins? Currently on folic acid and floradix, pregnacare made me too constipated. My hair needs a brush but normally it looks even flatter than in that photo.
• after dd I started growing a load of baby hair (no it’s not a bad fringe) around the edge of my hairline. It looks terrible and does not want to be tamed
• the colour is so dull. Normally over summer I get natural highlights but now it literally just looks grey!

Any advice on products or anything else that may help? Thanks so much

I don’t think you’re meant to take floradix in pregnancy as it contains vitamin A - high doses can be harmful to the baby.

Any chance you could be anaemic? If so might be worth asking for a blood test.

Other than that, no advice, just sympathy, it’s hard work being pregnant and your body just decides to stop doing all the stuff it usually does, very annoying.

You may well have developed hypothyroidism. Symptoms include constipation and thinning hair.

Your normal pregnancy supplement may not be the culprit in your digestive problems.

I would honestly go back to a non herbal vitamin and iron supplement, and greatly increase your veg and fruit intake, plus drink a lot of water.