strange tuft of short hair in fringe area which doesn't seem to grow, anyone have experience if this?

[saadia]

At first the hairdresser thought the hair had broken off but on closer inspection looked like newly grown hair. It looks really odd just on one side like a really badly cut fringe. Am taking iron tablets but to no avail as it doesn't seem to grow beyond a certain point. Does anyone know what might be causing it?

Have you recently had a baby? My dd is seven months and I've noticed a tuft like this

I have a big thick pube growing in that area. I have a lot of hair, but each strand is quite fine, apart from this big thick wiry thing!

I have always got that after having a baby too.

Saadia, I have a similar - large! - section of 'baby hair' at one side of the fringe and on the side of my head, that simply never grows.
I have had it for quite a few years (I'm 41) and it's exactly the same things my mother had (although she had it much worse). Particularly upsetting because in my teens and 20s I had lovely thick hair...
My hairdresser discounts it as hair loss after giving birth, but my youngest is now 6! And given my mother's experience I think it has to be genetic.
From what I've researched it's associated with female pattern hair loss (while men tend to go bald from the crown, keeping the hairline, women?s hair often goes the other way) and sorry to say I'm pretty sure there's nothing much we can do about it :(
Clever haircut, hairbands, hats and ultimately wigs... hair transplant!!
There's a famous doctor in the US who is an expert in treating this kind of hair loss with transplanted hair from the back of your head, but it's fabulously expensive of course (and sounds, well? unpleasant!)
I'm hoping and praying that mine won't get worse. So far it isn't doing (much), but by her mid-50s my mother still had lovely thick hair at the back of hair head, but little wisps at the front around her face. It was NOT good for her self-esteem.
There are plenty of female hair loss / baldness blogs and websites around, but not much that touches directly on what you're describing and we?ve both experiencing.
I'm working on an article for my website, but I'm still researching it...
PM me if you'd like to chat / compare photos!

Edward....youngest is 8 so not due to childbirth though I did have a wispy fringe then as well.

TheaJTS that sounds quite alarming but is certainly a possibility I guess. Thank you for that info. I think I may get it cut short to let it blend a little or change my parting. Really odd that it just doesn't grow at all.

All the way around my hairline I have whispy hair that doesn't grow beyond a few inches. It has always been like that. My hairdresser calls it my baby hair. I'm 37. When the wind blows from behind it all sticks out I look like Medusa....

I have that but at the back of my head, on my neck. Never grows past an inch or so.

Really annoying especially if I want to tie it back. I've never had a baby, so can't blame that.

Thea I have those too!!! I hate them, they're wispy and annoying. On damp days they poke out like angry corkscrews, and the more unkind of my friends call them "sperm curls"

I have it too - I've always thought of it as 'baby hair' also. Given the choice between that and 'female baldness' I think I'm going to stick to the baby hair explanation!!

I've had a patch like that most of my adult life (fine hair around an inch long that appeared from nowhere rather than hair loss), but for some reason in the last six months it's started growing. It is now around 7" long and shows no signs of stopping. I haven't been able to figure out what has caused the growth, no lifestyle changes or diet changes, no change in products etc and the rest of my hair remains the same.

I have this too! Didn't realise it was 8 month old DD2's fault!

Mine's always been like that - wispy, curly hair all around my forehead that never grows beyond about 10cm. It doesn't bother me, but does mean that there's no point in my even thinking about a lot of hairstyles as they just wouldn't work.

I have always had this sine I remember (I used to pull my hair out there when I was young though)

I now spray a bit of hairspray on it and do a 'Mary'!!

I have this. I've always had it, though have never had a baby. It spirals out in a weird corkscrew as well. I also have it on my neck underneath my hair though that only shows with a ponytail.

My hair's going through a particularly ginger stage at the moment as well :(