Hi Lovelies,
Hope you are all feeling fabulous❤
Today I’m starting the journey to document my postpartum journey and I’ve decided to start with the hair loss.
Honestly it took me by surprise! I have read about it extensively but when it happens to you, it’s so depressing honestly. I have opened up about it on my Insta stories and the journey continues!
For me, the hair loss started 4 months postpartum. My mum says she never had it so for some reason i thought i had escaped it but I definitely didn’t! My hair fell in clumps and because it was extremely long it looked so excessive. By the first week i felt like had lost at least a quarter of my existing hair. My hair felt thinner and it was falling all over the place. After washing, the amount of hair on the shower floor literally scared me! Brushing my hair was a nightmare as the fallout was so extreme.
I didn’t know where to start to tackle this. I read online, watched videos and then decided to start taking my pregnancy vitamins again. I bought some hair oils and hair vitamins. I also decided to cut my hair much shorter to make it more manageable. The fresh cut also made it look healthier and a bit thicker.
For the next few weeks my hair still fell badly but after 3 weeks of taking the vitamins and applying the oils i finally started to see a change. I could visibly see less hair on the chair and floors. There was less hair coming out when I ran my fingers through my hair….I finally felt that I was heading in a positive direction.
My approach to address postpartum hair loss was as follows:
- I only washed my hair once a week
- Soaked my hair in oils for 2-3 days at a time. I used a combination of Amla & Indian hair grower oils
- Alternated between pregnancy vitamins and Hairtamin mom vitamins daily
- Didn’t brush my hair daily
- Avoided heat on my hair
- Reduced styling
- Applied hair treatments which contained biotin
- Kept my hair tied up majority of the time
It’s now almost 2 months since my hair loss started and i definitely see a huge improvement. There’s hardly any hair falling out and baby hairs are starting to grow. My hair is looking and feeling so much better. I am still following the steps above and will keep doing it till my hair is back to where it was in terms of length and fullness.
If you are going through this at the moment i hope my process gives you a starting point as i know it’s so overwhelming. If you are still pregnant I have read that you should continue taking your pregnancy vitamins after birth to help reduce the impact of postpartum hair loss. I had planned to do the same but things got so hectic that it slipped my mind honestly.
Having a baby is such a beautiful blessing. The journey is filled with ups and downs and this was definitely such a horrible experience. There’s so much going on already and adding in hair loss just makes you feel so sad but there definitely is hope! Talk about it, cry about and then tackle it head on! You got this!
XOXO Michelle