Why Your Hair Falls Out After Pregnancy
All new moms experience hair loss, though some lose more than others.
Here’s why:
During pregnancy, your hormone levels change, causing your hair to stay in a resting phase for longer, so you shed less hair on a daily basis. (You may have noticed that your hair seemed thicker than usual.)
After you’ve given birth and your hormones have settled down — usually at about 12 weeks after delivery — more hair shifts into a shedding phase. You may be alarmed to find hair coming out by the handful.
Normally, you lose about 100 to 125 hairs a day, but after delivery, you may be losing up to 500 a day.
This can be very distressing, but don’t worry — you won’t go bald!
There’s little you can do about the shedding, other than to be patient. The shedding tends to be most noticeable when you’re shampooing or brushing your hair, but don’t skip either, you’ll just be delaying the inevitable.
If you feel as though it’s getting too thin, try using a volumizing shampoo & conditioner.
You may notice fine “baby” hair growing along your hairline at the top of your forehead.
Although frustrating this is good news. It means the shedding phase has ended, and new hair is growing in. Try rocking some new bangs to help camouflage the new growth.
Within another six months or so, your hair should be back to its normal pre-pregnancy thickness, but you may find that the texture of your hair is never exactly the same.
It may be curlier or straighter or dryer or oilier than it was before pregnancy. This is due to the hormonal upheaval you’ve just been through.
So, just hang in there, your hair WILL recover!
For any more advice, hair tips, or an amazing new ‘do come see me, Maryah @ Salon Cartier in Walnut Creek, CA.
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