After the Baby: Postpartum Hair Loss Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe postpartum hair loss. Writers describe the thickness of pregnancy hair and the shock when it reversed: the first handful in the shower, the clumps on the pillow, the drain, the hairbrush, the counting that becomes compulsive. There is naming it — the doctor who said it was normal without saying how long, the friend who had been through it, the internet at three in the morning — and then every morning of it: the parting that widened, the ponytail that thinned, the photographs avoided, the hats, and the specific cruelty of this arriving during a period already short on sleep and self-recognition. Writers describe the soft fringe of regrowth and the awkward months it brings, the iron and thyroid checks that mattered, and the harder cases where shedding continued past a year or unmasked hair loss that did not reverse.

Who it's for

For new mothers in the middle of the shed, partners and friends who want to understand why it matters, and anyone whose postpartum hair loss did not stop on schedule.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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