5 curiosities about baby hair (which you may not know)

Why are some babies born with hair already and others not? Why do I lose them in the first few months? These and other curiosities about baby hair

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When a new life is born, the parents finally give a face to the long-awaited and imagined child. Among the various things that immediately catch the eye is the presence or absence of hair. But why are some babies born with hair already and others not?

A lot is said about the hair of new born babies: there are those who believe, for example, that future mothers have stomach acid or not depending on whether the unborn child is more or less scalp, others believe that since no one has red hair in the family even your own child will not be outdone. But is it really so?

Let's find out some curiosities about baby hair.

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Hair and hair in the belly

All babies around the sixth and seventh month are entirely covered with a fluff known as fetal fleece. However, this generally falls spontaneously towards the end of the eighth month and when the baby is born it has only a small variable amount of hair and hair that is gradually lost during the first months of life.

Why some babies have hair

Due to hormonal and genetic factors, some babies do not lose their hair during gestation and are born with more or less thick hair. After a few months after giving birth, however, these first hairs will still tend to thin out and fall out.

In the first few months, babies lose their hair

Even if there is some hair, infants in the first 6 months often lose them almost completely, especially in the frontal area. Parents are generally alarmed but in reality there is nothing strange, in fact it is not a problem with the hair follicles, on the contrary in this way it makes room for the real hair that will accompany children for years to come.

Red hair

Although neither parent is red and fair-skinned, there is a small chance that the infant assumes these characteristics instead. In this case we speak of rutilismo and this situation occurs when both mom and dad carry the recessive MC1R gene.

Does stomach acid depend on the baby's hair?

All mothers who experience stomach acid during pregnancy have been told that it is because of the many hairs of the unborn child. But is it just a false myth? There is still no scientific certainty on this topic although a study conducted in the United States found a statistically significant relationship between the presence of significant heartburn in expectant mothers and a lot of hair in the newborn at the time of birth.

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