I was under the impression that you stopped losing hair during pregnancy. Something about your body being in a store/create/preserve mode, so it doesn’t let go of anything. Including hair. (Postpartum, of course, is a different story.)
This is how it was with my previous pregnancies anyway. I stopped losing any hair. At all. I’m talking not one strand on the shower floor. It’s like they were glued to my head.
Then, as soon as I had the baby, I could pull out hairs by the fistful. Slightly frightening the first few times it happened. I felt the sudden need to rush to the mirror and confirm I wasn’t bald. But, fortunately that stage too passes. And the first thing a new stylist says upon touching my hair is still “Wow, it’s so thick!”
So I’ve gotten rather used to this cycle of store and shed. My follicles seem to be no worse for the wear. And it’s actually come to symbolize a healthy pregnancy to me. My body is holding on to EVERYTHING. All must be well.
I suppose that’s why, as I’m now into my third trimester, it feels a little strange to still be collecting a good sized hairball from the drain at the end of each shower. What’s wrong with me? This shouldn’t be happening, right?
Please ease my mind. Did any of you experience hair loss in pregnancy? Even better, did you not experience it in first pregnancies, but did in subsequent ones?
(Not like I’m trying to fit in or anything. I just want to feel like everyone else again.)
2 comments:
Jessica, I've only had one pregnancy, but I lost hair like crazy during the pregnancy. That's why I was SO surprised to start losing it again about 3 months after the Tominator was born.
I think the hairballs are coming from Alexander. Or they are composed of hair unwittingly transmitted by your in laws from their white dog, whose hair is the most ubiquitous substance in the universe.
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