Crazy Postnatal Hair Question

14 years ago

Sensitive question here. First of all let me apologize for the nature of this question. I'd ask my OB/GYN but I'm to embarassed t schedule any appt.s since I am still paying off my bill from delivery 1 yr. ago.

So here's my question: All of our children have been delivered via CS. I noticed that w/ the 2nd delivery not all of my hair 'you know where' grew back after being shaved for delivery. Um OK - a little strange looking but whatever.

W/ PG #3 I noticed that I didn't have to shave my legs or under arms nearly as much. After delivery a nurse and I were talking and she said it happened to her but after her delivery it returned to normal. It's been a yr. for me and I only have to shave my legs about once every 2 wks max (not too bad :O)!) and even then it's barely noticable. I've actually been able to go for a month! Under arms aren't like they used to be before either.

So I decided to start bikini waxing. Ummmm, I still haven't had to go back for quite a few months. The hair on my head is still growing super fast (longest it's ever been) and my head hair typically grows veeeeeery slow.

I never took prenatal vitamins (made me to sick) and I stopped BF when DD was 9 mo old. She turns 1 in a wk.

Don't get me wrong - I'm VERY OK w/ the slowed hair growth or lack thereof in some places, but I can't find an explanation for it and it's never happened to any of my friends or family members.

Has anything similar happened to any of you?

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les917
14 years ago
Don't know how old you are TTodd, but it sounds like you could be starting perimenopause, and it is simply a coincidence that it happened now. Perimenopause can last up to 10 years before menopause happens. Any chance that coincides with your age?.

From what I have read, as women age, they do tend to have less hair on legs, armpits and in the pubic area. I know it is true for me and for a number of my friends.
polly929
14 years ago
TTodd...OMG I am going through the SAME thing!!!
I am Italian, and I have always shaved my underarms daily and legs at least every other day over the summer. DS is 2 months old and since I've had him, I only have to shave my legs once a week and under arms once every 3 days. Still nursing and I take my kids chewable vitamins, couldn't take PNV's either.
I hope it stays this way, but I also hope I'm not perimenopausal yet. I didn't mention it to my doctor at my post partum check up, totally forgot.
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tinam61
14 years ago
Hormonal changes?

tina
golddust
14 years ago
I agree with Tina. Must be hormonal.
neetsiepie
14 years ago
I don't recall when I noticed my hairiness going. I am also Italian, so I was pretty hairy. Then in my mid-30's it started getting finer & finer. I haven't plucked my eyebrows in over 20 years...and now I only have to shave my upper back thighs and just below my knees.

Don't know if was hormonal or not...I DO have thyroid conditions and am on meds. My head hair is thinner than when I was younger, but it's still pretty thick and fast growing.

I never complained...cuts down on maintenance. OTOH, I DID notice more facial 'whiskers'. Not more of a mustache, per se, but just coarse, long hairs that I have to pluck out. And that was going strong pre-hysterectomy, and still going on. So don't have a clue as to the hormonal thing.
2ajsmama
14 years ago
I know your hair doesn't fall out while you're pg (may even be delayed if you're bfing). It was thick (for the 1st time) when I was pg w/Ds, fell out soon after (and you lose everything that you hadn't lost while pg, so it was a lot). With DD it was practically a year b4 I lost any, but it hasn't stopped - I know I'm perimenopausal now, I have handfuls after I condition every time I wash my hair (almost every day - I have oily thin hair but have to condition the ends).

I've never had to shave my legs often, haven't really noticed whether it's slowed too. Have stubble now, haven't shaved since early August, when I got sunburned, now peeling. So I haven't worn shorts much this summer, with blotchy red, then tan, then stubbly peeling legs! I've never plucked my eyebrows.

Makes sense that as you get older your body hair gets thinner/sparser since the hair on your head does too.

DD is really hairy on back and legs - don't know where she gets it from. Are blondes hairier than (non-Italian) brunettes? Dr said it was lanugo and would fall it, it hasn't, has just gone from dark to blond - she's almost 6.
lyfia
14 years ago
Well I wish I was in that boat. My DD is 7 months - I'm BF and I have to shave my legs/under arms every other day, however the bikini area seems to be a little lighter and not need as much attention. I'll be 39 this fall.

Now the hair on my head though is still falling out in clumps. I had hoped this would have stopped by now, but still going on.
tishtoshnm Zone 6/NM
14 years ago
My youngest child is almost 3 and my hair still falls out in clumps. He weaned about a year ago. Other areas of hair are sparser than they were before. At 31, I am not likely to be perimenopausal (though I don't think I would mind it). The joys of being a woman!
ttodd
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14 years ago
Fessing up: As soon as read peri-menopausal I stopped reading. Hopefully it's not. I know I started having kids late.

I'm going to sit back and enjoy the money saving effects of lessening body hair and smile. If I move from one body part to another maybe I'll be hair free by the end of the year!

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