https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:01:17 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-shave-your-babys-head#post-92288 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:32:24 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 92288@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My sister shaved my nieces hair. I didnt </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-shave-your-babys-head#post-92267 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:48:16 +0000 j0s1e267 92267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom shaved my head and I do have nice thick hair but despite repeated urging from my mom, I could not do it to my DD as she was so little being a preemie! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-shave-your-babys-head#post-92249 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:27:54 +0000 HabesBabe 92249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom shaved my head when I was a baby... she still SWEARS it made my hair thicker.</p> <p>She also shaved my eyebrows when I was school-aged during winter break... I looked Whoopi-esque for quite awhile. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-shave-your-babys-head#post-92227 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:44:25 +0000 googly-eyes 92227@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad did this to my brother and it grew back thicker and more even.. And for some strange reason lighter colored... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-shave-your-babys-head#post-91902 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:14:07 +0000 plantains 91902@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How interesting. This is also fairly predominant in a lot of West African cultures, but I don't think we'll do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-shave-your-babys-head#post-91901 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:12:20 +0000 MsMini 91901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We sometimes need to shave babies heads in NICU for IV's (yes, babies sometimes get IV's in scalp veins if they don't have good veins for IV's in the hands/arms or feet). It doesn't grow back any thicker in the patches we have shaved, although sometimes the colour appears a little different in the shaved vs non-shaved patches for some reason. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-shave-your-babys-head#post-91897 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:58:54 +0000 mrstilly 91897@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't. DS has fine, very blonde hair. It's starting to grow longer in the back and get thicker, but he never had any issues with his hair. He never really lost much of it and it's pretty even. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-shave-your-babys-head#post-91894 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:50:55 +0000 Mrsbells 91894@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I plan to just play it by ear.. if her hair is really thin and weird I may cut it and then let it grow back but I have a feeling my baby will have a head full of hair at birth </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-shave-your-babys-head#post-91890 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:40:50 +0000 mrs. wagon 91890@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Everyone told my mom to shave my head when I was a baby (we're Korean and a lot of Koreans do the same thing). She couldn't bear to do it, and I grew up to have long, thick, luscious hair! She's really glad she didn't do it. </p> <p>From everything I've read, it's an old wives' tale. Shaving your legs often seems to make the stubble thicker only because you're cutting the hair off at the thickest point and when it grows back, it's thicker than when the leg hair ends are finer from growing out naturally. There doesn't seem to be any way to create hair follicles (or bald men everywhere would have something to think about!) so I would say it's an old wives tale.</p> <p>Babies' hair almost always falls out sometime around 2 or 3 months, then grows back in about a month later. Even RJ was thinning quite a bit, but his hair was so long that it wasn't that noticeable (the long hairs on top covered the balding areas underneath. People asked us if we had shaved the hair on the sides and back! He was 2 months old!!) so I would say just wait and the hair will grow in naturally. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-shave-your-babys-head#post-91885 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:34:28 +0000 heffalump 91885@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not Chinese. But at one month old there would have been nothing to shave. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-shave-your-babys-head#post-91852 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:32:34 +0000 Andrea 91852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't but my mom kept telling me to. She swears that it works. It seemed too scary to do! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-shave-your-babys-head#post-91836 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:31:45 +0000 enjollah 91836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In the Chinese culture, once baby is a month old, they usually shave off all the baby's hair (toi mo) and supposedly it's suppose to grow back thicker. Did any of you do this? What i really want to know is if your LO's hair really grow back thicker or is this an old wives tale? </p>