This morning you found a bunch of hair in your sink, and you've noticed a few thin spots on your scalp. You panic. What in the world is happening to your nice thick head of hair? You aren't taking any new medications, and you can't think of anything that's changed in your life in the last couple of weeks. So what is going on? You don't have long to think about it, though, because before long, your newborn starts to cry. Aha! There's the problem. You've just gone through pregnancy, and the hormones that changed your body while you were pregnant are getting back to normal. Hair loss after pregnancy is normal.
Lucky for you, the hair loss won't be permanent. Over the next few months, the cycles your hair goes through will gradually return to the way they were pre-pregnancy. In a normal day, you will have 50-100 hairs fall out so that new hairs can start growing in. During pregnancy, hormones don't allow this to happen. Following childbirth, as your hormones return to normal, your hair gets the message that there are a lot of hairs that should have come out and didn't. Therefore, you will shed all of these hairs within 2-3 months following pregnancy in order for your hair cycles to get back to normal. It can be alarming if you aren't expecting it.
Eventually, your hair should get back to the way it always used to be, but you'll need to hang in there while all the new hairs are growing in. It's going to take several months of having hairs of all different lengths before you'll be able to have your perfect hairdo back. You may want to get your hair cut short so that it can all grow in together, augment your locks with a fall, or purchase a wig to wear until such time as your hair returns to the way you want it to look. A lot will depend on how much hair loss you sustain and whether it's critical to your life and career to keep looking as good as always.
The bottom line is, however, that if you've recently had a baby and are seeing hair fall out, there's no need to panic. It's only your body reacting the way it was meant to, and the problem will be gone before you know it.
Lucky for you, the hair loss won't be permanent. Over the next few months, the cycles your hair goes through will gradually return to the way they were pre-pregnancy. In a normal day, you will have 50-100 hairs fall out so that new hairs can start growing in. During pregnancy, hormones don't allow this to happen. Following childbirth, as your hormones return to normal, your hair gets the message that there are a lot of hairs that should have come out and didn't. Therefore, you will shed all of these hairs within 2-3 months following pregnancy in order for your hair cycles to get back to normal. It can be alarming if you aren't expecting it.
Eventually, your hair should get back to the way it always used to be, but you'll need to hang in there while all the new hairs are growing in. It's going to take several months of having hairs of all different lengths before you'll be able to have your perfect hairdo back. You may want to get your hair cut short so that it can all grow in together, augment your locks with a fall, or purchase a wig to wear until such time as your hair returns to the way you want it to look. A lot will depend on how much hair loss you sustain and whether it's critical to your life and career to keep looking as good as always.
The bottom line is, however, that if you've recently had a baby and are seeing hair fall out, there's no need to panic. It's only your body reacting the way it was meant to, and the problem will be gone before you know it.