https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:36:27 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515850 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:35:57 +0000 DesertDreams88 2515850@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think shaving it makes it grow in fuller, but it "evens things out" and removes the baby wispiness so the new hair appears more thick by default. </p> <p>I plan to cut/trim LO's hair in the back this weekend at 10 weeks... he's got a mullet and it gets SO sweaty when I hold his head for nursing or after a car ride! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515777 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:40:54 +0000 snowjewelz 2515777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD doesn't have much hair still at 16 mo, so I've totally gotten comments on how I should shave it, but I have not and will not! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515484 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 23:40:10 +0000 erinpye 2515484@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: exactly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515483 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 23:38:34 +0000 lamariniere 2515483@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: totally agree with you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515453 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:33:37 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2515453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Sunshine cancer patients take drugs that alter their bodies chemistry so significantly their hair falls out. Hair growth is affected by hormones. If you eat a poor diet your hair will suffer, it'll be dull, stringy, break, and fall out.</p> <p>Things done outside the body ie. cutting hair, shaving hair or pulling out grey hairs for that matter doesn't change the chemical makeup of ones hair. Taking hormones, vitamins, chemo all will affect hair.</p> <p>If shaving made ones hair grow out thicker and fuller Bruce Willis would look very different.</p> <p>FTR I'm not opposed to head shaving I just think the rationale is flawed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515451 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:31:04 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 2515451@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Torchwood: maybe so! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515450 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:30:21 +0000 Torchwood 2515450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Sunshine: I always assumed that had something to do with the chemo. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515448 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:21:16 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 2515448@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: that makes sense but I've heard of so many people (cancer patients, mostly) whose hair has grown back a different color, a different texture (curly when it was straight before), I have to think that it changes something! That being said, I just let my kids have silly hair :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515445 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:09:16 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2515445@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents did this to my brother and it grew back a lighter color and thicker!</p> <p>I have no idea why that happened. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515443 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:07:22 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2515443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've heard of it, never done it, my girls have lots of thick hair.<br /> I'm pretty sure that nothing you do on the outside of the body is going to affect the way it grows inside the body. The number and size of follicles isn't going to change, just the shape of the end of the hair by cutting. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515396 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:12:19 +0000 mediagirl 2515396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. Boy dos she have some funky hair for a while. Haha! I loved the crazy baby hair. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515388 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:06:39 +0000 mrswin 2515388@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DenverMom: This is common in my DH's culture. We did my daughters hair at 4 months, she is almost a year and it has grown in nicely. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515357 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 19:44:12 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2515357@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My Peruvian friend did this with her first pretty soon after she was born. With her second the American dad wasn't into the idea and her daughter's hair is still short and thin; she's 12. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515280 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:16:10 +0000 regberadaisy 2515280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha yes. Chinese people believe this. My DD1 was pretty much bald till 2. Everyone kept telling me to shave her head! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515269 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 17:43:48 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2515269@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My friend did it for her son and it grew in much more even. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515263 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 17:30:16 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 2515263@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did this but for religious (Hindu) reasons around 7m for both boys. The hair grew back a lot thicker and more even! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/shaving-babys-head#post-2515259 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 17:23:46 +0000 DenverMom 2515259@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Has anyone shaved their baby's hair so that it will come back thicker? My little girl has super thin stringy hair that just kind of lays on her forehead. It's super short in the back but much longer in the front. I'm fairly certain that it will eventually grow in nicely, but I've also heard that sometimes people shave the baby's hair and it helps with thickness. My little one is 10 months old.</p> <p>Have you ever heard of this? Have you ever done it? </p>