Chances are good that while you were pregnant, no one told you the changes that were going to occur involving your hair.
There was probably no issue when your hair became thicker and maybe even changed to a more vibrant color due to hormone changes, because if you took the time to notice, you would have liked what you saw.
You may even have had friends or relatives remark about the lushness of your hair and wonder if you had it colored.
So baby was born, and everything was going along fine until, along about the third post pregnancy month, you started noticing that your hair was falling out and began to panic.
No one had bothered to tell you that hair loss after pregnancy is a normal, temporary condition following the birth of a baby.
As you know, your hormones change during pregnancy.
There have been plenty of jokes about pregnant women and their mood swings which baffle their husbands as well as those about sending those poor, suffering men out into the cold of night to buy their wives pickles and ice cream.
Although we think the concept is funny, there is a lot of truth in it.
Hormonal changes can wreak havoc within a body, and at no time are they more prevalent than during pregnancy.
Therefore, while you are pregnant, your normal hair cycles are disrupted by your hormones.
Although your hair is normally "programmed" to fall out and regrow over time, while you are carrying your baby, it just doesn't fall out as it otherwise would resulting in a fuller head of hair.
After pregnancy, it takes awhile for your hormone levels to get back to the way they were pre-pregnancy, and when they do, all the hair that you didn't lose on schedule while you were pregnant starts falling out all at once.
At this point, it's easy to panic if you don't understand what's happening.
It's just your body working overtime to get back to normal.
After a few months of thinner-than-normal hair, you'll find lots of little hairs growing back in.
Before you know it, you'll have the full head of hair you always had.