Hair loss

I am 4 months pp and my hair is getting so thin!
For reference I had super thick hair before (so thick I used to get the hair dresser to thin it out for me)
I have notice the past few weeks a ton of hair coming out when I wash it, does anyone have any tips on how to stop of falling out anymore?!
Not sure if it’s anything to do with it but I recently stopped breastfeeding and it started around this time
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Following incase anyone leaves any tips because I’m exactly the same🥲 I formula feed & always have, but my hair is coming out in chunks when I wash it x

Mine is falling a lot too. From what I’ve read there isn’t much we can do about it. It’s all the hair that doesn’t fall when we are pregnant that then falls out once we’ve given birth. Breast feeding delays the fall too so once you stop BFing that’s when it tends to fall.
All I’ve started doing is putting in a growth serum to try and regrow what I am losing! Hoping that’ll work in the long run!

It’s really normal for this to happen around 3-5 months postpartum. It’s like Jen said, it’s all the hair that you didn’t shed during pregnancy suddenly shedding at the same time. It looks really bad for a few months but it’ll settle down again. Then you get fun regrowth and tufts of baby hair sticking out 😂🙈 some people recommend using rosemary oil, I never bothered and just rode it out last time and it went back to normal again.

Totally normal, I’m losing handfuls every hair wash and it’s all over the house. Apparently there’s not much you can do to prevent it falling out, but you can take Biotin to promote new hair growth

omg I’m the same. It is so scary 😥

Mines doing the same! I've started taking hair-iron tablets and I got some Nioxin (hair loss shampoo/conditioner/treatment) and I've noticed less in my hairbrush already. Xx

I'm 4 months pp and my hair is falling like crazy ! And I've got extremely scanty and thin hair, on top of which the hairdresser ruined my hair and gave me an awful haircut just before my due date. So I'm going through this horrible phase regarding my hair. But apparently hairfall is normal and we can't do anything about it, except for look after ourselves and stress less xx

Mine is this like it is awful. I have been using anti dandruff shampoo in hope it will make the scalp stronger.

I've got a GP appointment as starting to notice a balder patch

An update from me, my hair loss is getting better 🙏🏻🙏🏻 anyone else’s experiencing this?

mine gets better and then worse again🥲

aww okay 🙈 I thought this was the end of it 😂

mine is definitely improving! I bought a L’Oréal anti fall serum which I’m putting in and that seems to have slowed the pace of loss down. X

I’m glad to hear that, I have t used anything else. Actually bought rosemary oil but not used it yet. I only started taking my vitamins a bit more regularly, perhaps that helped ☺️

I didn’t do anything to try and prevent it, but it’s finally stopped falling out so much 🙏🏼 Now we wait for the ridiculous baby hair regrowth 😂

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Hour night wakes and 5am get up

Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

I think its fair

Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

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In the uk there is an outbreak of meningitis, in a specific area mainly. My BD has family from that area and decided to go and meet up with them, I said if he does then he cannot have contact with the kids for 7-10 days after incase he picks anything up. Am I being over dramatic? I reallyyy don’t want my young kids getting anything serious

Over supply of milk

I am nearly 5weeks postpartum and I have such a big over supply of BM.
Has anyone donated / sold their supply, if so where do you recommend for this?

Crawling and walking

So my girl is 9 months now and shes great at sitting up and stays on her tummy for awhile but she seems to have no interest in trying to move or crawl or bum shuffle. Shes a big baby always has been but I'm disabled and I feel like it's my fault she's not hitting milestones I feel like there's something I'm not doing and it's making me a bad mum

Night feeding in sleeping bag

Do you guys keep your baby in their sleeping bag when you feed them in the night, or do you take it off? I take it off as don’t want him to be too hot but then sometimes when he’s sleepy after his feed and I go to put it back on him he wakes up and is fussy. Not sure if I should just keep him in it?