PREGNANCY AND HAIR LOSS
Why do you lose hair after pregnancy?
During a pregnancy, amounts of hormones are produced in the body and some of them have a positive effect on hair growth.
The hormones cause the hairs that would normally go into a resting phase and fall out to remain. Thus, you can experience that you get more hair and better hair quality during pregnancy.
After childbirth, hormone levels return to normal levels and the “extra” hairs that have remained fall out.
Therefore, many people may experience that they lose a lot of hair after a pregnancy.
The welcome but sometimes physically demanding life transition plus increased stress and limited sleep can further affect the hair and cause more and more hair loss.
That you lose hair after a pregnancy can therefore be due to stress and other reasons.
