Did your baby pop out with a full head of hair, or were they still bald at their first birthday party? 👶
By Athena Tsavliris |Heartburn during pregnancy, goes the old wives’ tale, is a sure sign of a hairy baby. I heard it over and over again when I was pregnant with my daughter.
“You, too, were a little monkey when you were born,” reassured my mother, affectionately, as we watched the nurse give my baby her. “Oh, don’t fret,” the nurse piped up. “It’ll be gone before you know it.” That soft, downy hair is called lanugo . It’s produced by fetal hair follicles during the second trimester and keeps a baby warm inside the womb. Many babies lose their lanugo in utero , where it’s shed into the amniotic fluid.
Karen Williamson, a hairstylist at a Toronto location of Melonhead, the popular cross-Canada franchise salon for tots, is used to giving infants their“I see babies as young as two or three months old,” she says. Parents often ask her about the texture of their child’s hair and how it might change, often lamenting the loss of those cherubic curls. “Just because a baby has curly hair in his first years doesn’t mean it will stay that way through adulthood,” she explains. “Hair changes all the time.
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