Hair Loss since having baby ? Anything I can do ?

[jackie21]

Hi....I had my baby 3 months ago and recent my hair has been really badly falling out or breaking off not sure. I dont have any bald patches or anything, its just when I am in the shower and i run my fingers through my hair they end up with lots of hair in my hands !! I know you can lose over 1000 hairs a day but i really feel like a lot is coming out, especially when i brush my hair aswell, you can see it on my laminate flooring after ive finished doing my hair, I seem to be constantly sweeping trying to make sure there all off the floor !!

Anything I can do to get my healthy pregrancy hair back?? Except get pregnant again !!

x

Same here

its awful

I had that too - when I complained to my hairdresser, she said "Oh, didn't I warn you that would happen?"

Fearless freak is right you didn't shed hair when pg so it's all coming off now, like you didn't have a period but then end up with nine month's worth after the birth. Promise you it'll be fine. Boots do do a post-baby shampoo meant to tackle this, but I am pretty about it

Lasted over a month for me and has only just started falling out less rapidly (DS is 4.5 months). All I could do was get a shorter haircut so it wasn't obvious how thin it was. Also putting some colour in can help it look thicker - I'm afraid I don't think there's anything you can do to stop it....

My hair fell out at an alarming rate after dd was about four months old, it was quite distressing even though I knew it could happen.
BUT...drum roll...it grows back, so take heart! I now have a lot of regrowth (I never knew that happened, but thank crunchie it comes back eh?) and have a got a little Christopher Walken style spiky do coming up through my older long hair, it's very fetching indeed!

I've had the same thing with both my pregnancies - scary amounts of hair falling out every time I wash it and then regrowth so that I now have three layers - the long one that's pre-children growth, the long wispy layer that's post-DD1 and now the short wispy layer post-DD2. It's an attractive look, I can tell you. I used to think that all new Mums cut their hair short so that it wasn't so much work, but now realise that it's the only way to not have bizarre regrowth patterns.

Yes, I'm considering a bob to try to make it look a bit better (and give dd less to try to swing from too!)

It can last up to a year.
A bob may not be the best choice if it starts to thin on top.

Lasted over a month for me too. Has just stopped but not regroing yet. Maybe it never will

Cannot afford another child unless I want to go bald.

I once had that before though it wasn't bc of a baby but lots of stress combined with bad (no) nutrition so my doctor (dermatologist) prescribed me this:

Ell-Cranell alpha

(active ingredient Alfatradiol)

(prescribed in ermany so maybe different name in UK). It did help against losing hair and after a while it grew back.

At the moment I'm trying a line by Fekkai (hair stylist) which is called MORE. It smells delicious but I don't know if it can keep its promise. TBH, I'm so desperate I don't care.

I hope you'll get your lovely hair back. x

regrowing, sry