Well today I'm here to spread knowledge about Telogen effluvium. This is the excessive shedding of hair that occurs one to five months following pregnancy. This is not uncommon, affecting somewhere between 40 to 50% of women; but like most changes during pregnancy, it is temporary. Approximately 90% of your hair is growing at any one time, while the other 10% enter a resting phase. Every two to three months the resting hair falls out and allows new hair to grow in its place.
But when you are pregnant the rise in hormones keeps nearly all your hair in the growing phase, that is why pregnant women have luxurious shiny hair. After delivery, the hormones return to normal levels, which allows the hair to fall out and return to the normal cycle. The normal hair loss that was delayed during pregnancy may fall out all at once.
Up to 60% of your hair that is in the growth state may enter into the telogen resting state. The hair loss usually peaks 3-4 months after delivery as your hair follicles rejuvenate themselves. As noted before, this hair loss is temporary and hair loss returns to normal within six to twelve months.
For the past 3 weeks I've been experiencing this horrible postpartum hair loss. I keep debating whether I should just cut my hair short, they say it's less noticeable when you have a short style, with long hair it's just a lot more noticeable. But the tough part is where to find the time to get a haircut??? I might just have to suck it up and wait. It's just horrible to clean out my hair brush every night, I miss my thick luxurious hair!
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