When Will My Hair Stop Falling Out?

It usually lasts AROUND six months (read 3-12). Doesn't make a difference whether you're breastfeeding or not. The hormones stop our natural hair loss for 280 days (ish), and at a hundred hairs a day...that means we have to lose (yikes) 28,000 hairs. Thank the powers that be it doesn't happen all at once, or we'd all be fat and bald and crying in the corner.

Long hair & curly hair make it SEEM worse (long hair and you've got that spiderwebby thing all day, and curly hair means you're pulling out clumps in the shower -because it stays locked in the curl, even thought it's detached from the scalp- until showertime. Ugh). Short had has the most dramatic effect, because there goes the volume...and you've got the "itchies" all day. Sigh. So no matter our hair type we're screwed.

Number one cause of EXTREME hair loss after pregnancy is thyroid being wonky.
Number two cause is dieting. (Our bodies stop sending proteins to the hairshaft if we're starving ourselves...hence why anorexics frequently have dull, thinning hair)

For me, it only stopped when I weaned (at 12.5 months). It's just another one of those annoying hormonal things!! :p

my OB was telling me that it shouldn't be longer than 6 months. I was asking her because at 7 months I was still loosing a ton of hair and I even clogged up the shower! She checked my thyroid, and it was WAY off. I'm now on meds for a hypo thyroid, and it's much better now. Maybe have it checked?

Mine came out like crazy, too, but stopped around 8 or 9 months...it's coming back now (10 months), so just hang in there!

I'm so sorry...I feel your pain! Give it a couple of months more. I think the whole thing lasted at least 3 months for me and I probably lost about 1/3 of my hair. But it DOES grow back!

Hi K. different things to maybe see the cause, i know for me, it was due to extreem illness and weight loss, I started usuing Ovasions and my hair is not faling out any more, and i am getting new hair growth, but one of my daycare moms is only 19 and she is loosing her hair as well, she has a 4 month old and she's 2 months pregnant, so thats probably why for her. I would stop FB for a while and see if that helps, if not try something else. If nothing works and you would like some info on what Im as usuing just let me know. ____@____.com J. L.