Hair And Pregnancy

	"pregnancy success" Hair during Pregnancy - Many pregnant women do experience hormonal changes that do affect their hair. Hair - Dryness during Pregnancy The most common complaint. Purchase a stronger conditioner and do deep conditionings often. The most important thing to remember is that it is a temporary condition and soon your hair will be growing again.
Hair Styles during Pregnancy - During and immediately after the birth, avoid getting your hair cut short. Weight gain on or around the face can be softened with longer styles whilst shorter hair can often exaggerate and emphasize a rounder face. shorter does not necessarily mean easier	The Breastfeeding Myth Many women connect nursing to their hair loss, because the condition begins several months after giving birth. Nothing could be further from the truth, says Dr. Randell. "Nursing mothers do notice a lot of hair falling out about the second or third month after delivery, but this is not because of breastfeeding. It is due to the stressful event of childbirth."

 

Hair Colour and Pregnancy

Hair colour in pregnancy. Basically during the first trimester when the baby is being formed, there may be a slight chance that colour applied directly to the skin could pass through the skin, enter the blood stream and pass to the embryo/fetus.

Once the first trimester is over there is less of a chance that colour can cross to the baby and have any effect but if at all concerned stick with your new colouring method. There is another, as yet unconsidered advantage to this "partial colour method". Because it is not applied to all of your hair, the regrowth is not as noticeable and you can go for longer periods between salon visits. This will become a major advantage once you have the new baby, as time can be very short!

If you are suffering from morning sickness, you will discover very fast if you hadn't already noticed, that hair colour has a very strong smell and so do many of the potions used in salons, so you may want to consider this before requesting hair colour in the first place. The local salon is not one of the best places to throw up!

Perming your Hair in Pregnancy

Hormonal changes during the first trimester and immediately after the birth or following the cessation of breast-feeding can cause your hair to react differently to perming. The result is that a perm may 'not take' so you may end up with a looser curl than you wanted or no curl at all after a few shampoos. As the perming chemicals do end up on the scalp and smell strongly there could also be similar concerns to those expressed for hair colouring.

Perming your hair during the second and third trimester should avoid many of these issues, but if you do take the risk of perming at other times, consider a test strand perm on a single section of your hair to see if the result will be what you wanted

Hair - Breakage during Pregnancy The hair may start breaking an inch or two from the roots of your hair. This is not a serious problem, there are many products on the market which will help hairs to lay down flat.

Many women do not lose any hair while they are pregnant. The downside to this is that after you give birth you may notice what seems like clumps coming out in the shower. This is normal and don't worry about it. It won't be noticible!

Female hair loss is a relatively common condition experienced by women who have given birth. Understanding hair loss is important, as it can take some of the fear out of finding handfuls of hair in the hairbrush, shower drain and even in the fists of your curious newborn.

"A few months after I delivered my twins, I started noticing a lot of hair in my hairbrush," says Jennifer Hans, mother of three from Fort Wayne, Ind. "The brush, which I cleaned only occasionally in the past, needed to be cleaned every three or four days. It seemed like I was losing a ton of hair!"

Although Hans' hair loss didn't become visually noticeable, there are other women who aren't so lucky. Tenna Perry of Porter, Texas, saw definite signs of a receding hairline and the hair at the crown of her head was also visibly thin.

"It wasn't possible to brush my waist length hair without cleaning the hair out of the brush at least once," says Perry. "The drainage in the bath was a problem because of the hair clogs that would accumulate with each washing. I never realized how much hair I had until I started seeing it coming out on its own!"

Defining Postpartum Hair Loss
A general thinning of the hair, occurring during a period of months, is a medical condition known as telogen effluvium. It is most often caused by a traumatic physical event such as childbirth. The event results in a disruption of the normal hair cycle and subsequent shedding of the hair.

According to Dr. Waliser, normal hair growth occurs in three cycles:

The Anagen Phase – The cells of the hair bulb actively divide and produce a growing hair. This phase lasts two years to six years for individual hairs. Normally, approximately 85 percent to 90 percent of all scalp hairs are in this phase.
The Catagen Phase – The hair stops to grow and the lower portion of the follicle involutes during a two-week span
The Telogen Phase – This is the resting phase of the cycle. The hair is no longer growing but remains loose in the hair shaft until it falls out. The Telogen phase lasts three to four months.
"During pregnancy, an increased percentage of scalp hairs are in the Anagen, or growing, phase," says Dr. Waliser. "Patients perceive thicker hair because decreased numbers of hairs are entering the Catagen and Telogen phases."

Under normal circumstances, the average person loses about 100 hairs each day. But according to Dr. Waliser, after a woman gives birth, there is a rapid change in these phases and appreciable hair loss occurs as a large number of follicles shed at once. This is termed telogen effluvium. It usually occurs one to five months postpartum and ceases within 15 months as follicles gradually revert to the Anagen growth phase.