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Hair loss after pregnancy

MishaRayMishaRay member
edited September 2015 in 3rd Trimester
ive been told by a few women that after they gave birth their hair came out in clumps. Other women told me their hair was super healthy and thick even afterwards. I was just wondering if anyone has any experience with either thing being true? Just wondering what to expect.
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Re: Hair loss after pregnancy

  • alexsandragalexsandrag member
    Well, after i had my daughter my hair fell out, and I have a lot of hair. It was so much that my hair dresser started putting a treatment for my hair so it will  stop falling out. But like i mention before i have a lot of hair, so it didn't look bad, but it took forever for it to stop falling out and now I am pregnant again. So lets see what happens now.  

    Just remember this doesn't happen to everyone. My friends hair stayed the same, after she gave birth, so this doesn't happen to everyone. 
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  • dogsombrerodogsombrero member
    I lost quite a bit of hair but not in clumps. It was most noticeable at my temples where it looked like I had the start of a receeding hairline. It started about 2 months PP and went on for a few months.
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  • taysuntaysun member
    Pregnancy hormones keep you from shedding as much hair as you normally would. As such, after delivery some women lose all the hair they didn't lose during the pregnancy.
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  • MyCousinVinnyMyCousinVinny member
    dogsombrero said:
    I lost quite a bit of hair but not in clumps. It was most noticeable at my temples where it looked like I had the start of a receeding hairline. It started about 2 months PP and went on for a few months.
    This is me now and it has just started growing back a little.  My hairline looks so weird.

    I'm almost 6 months PP and I lose a decent amount of hair daily (shower, brushing, etc).  
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  • dogsombrerodogsombrero member
    edited September 2015
    MyCousinVinny said:


    dogsombrero said:

    I lost quite a bit of hair but not in clumps. It was most noticeable at my temples where it looked like I had the start of a receeding hairline. It started about 2 months PP and went on for a few months.

    This is me now and it has just started growing back a little.  My hairline looks so weird.

    I'm almost 6 months PP and I lose a decent amount of hair daily (shower, brushing, etc).  



    Edit--- QBF
    Mine just started to stop looking completely fugly at 10 months PP when I got pregnant again. I'm really curious what will happen this time with twins. Oh and by curious I mean terrified. I'm not incredibly vain, I don't wear makeup but I really like my hair.
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  • TarHeelMomToBeTarHeelMomToBe member
    taysun said:
    Pregnancy hormones keep you from shedding as much hair as you normally would. As such, after delivery some women lose all the hair they didn't lose during the pregnancy.
    This is what happened to me -- it was just thicker than usual when I gave birth.  

    I will say that I EBF and mine didn't start falling out until 3-4 months post-partum (and not in clumps, just a lot of extra shedding).  The ladies on my BMB who used formula seemed to lose their hair sooner and more drastically -- I think the hormone shift was more abrupt for them.
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