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Re: Hair loss during pregnancy ?From: Margaret (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 23 Mar 1997 16:25:26 -0600 (CST)
At Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Noelle wrote: > >Does anyone know if mild hair loss during early pregnancy is a "normal"occurence? Hello Noelle, Rejoicing with you in the "little bean".....wishing you increasing peace over your loss of Ethan. While there is some connection between stress and hair loss, as mentioned an earlier response to your concern, there is possibly a simpler explanation to what you are experiencing. During your pregnancy with Ethan estrogen increased the rate of growth of your hair, but prolonged the growth stage overall. In otherwords, when you are pregnant you do not shed hair at the same rate as usual, it continues to grow. Then, postpartum, you shed hair at a normal rate, and the extra hairs that were not shed before come out over the next 4 to 20 weeks. It then takes about a year for all the hair to regrow. The technical term for this is "telogen effluvium", and it is associated with giving birth, surgery, or in some cases stress. Normal hair shedding is about 100 hairs a day, in pregnancy this can drop by half, and postpartum can nearly double. Your being pregnant again will not keep the postpartum shedding from occurring, because the hairs were entering the shedding stage before you conceived "little bean". Hope this helps.
-- Margaret Lipton CNM
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