Does Shaving a Baby's Hair Make It Thicker
shaving babies hair off - does it get in thicker?
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I know this is common amongst some asian communities (simply surely their babies would tend to have plentiful hair anyway, even if it was unshaved?) - do you lot call up that it tin actually help make the hair thicker/ more than plentiful?
HecatesTwopenceworth Sunday 03-May-09 20:04:50
No. What an odd proposition.
i think it might appear thicker maybe
ive never heard it suggested tbh (or never taken it in at least)
but people say that shaving legs and pits makes the hair thicker dont they. and thats to do with the ends being blunter and sharper, no?
LackaDAISYcal Sun 03-May-09 20:07:03
Shaving/ grading the hair gets rid of the wispy ends and creates a blunt end on the hair which gives the illusion of thicker pilus. Doesn't encourage extra pilus to grow though. Babies should take wispy fluffy hair.
No information technology doesn't make any difference, just equally having your hair cut doesn't arrive grow back faster.
One of my Asian friends suggested it for baldy ds, merely I decided against it!
i take heard of this before, simply dont see how it would work, shaving your hair anywhere does not stimulate hair growth. besides cant imagine that a baby would be very happy to have hair clippers/razor anywhere near them.
i have heard this before, and i dont think it would piece of work.
tis one of those very odd old wives tales i think, much like the one about potatos in pregnancy causing colic. 
Logically I can see that it wouldn't work, but my dd has such wispy hair (which is absolutely lovely at present, but non so corking in my firstborn who is at present viii) that I keep thinking 'but what if it did make it thicker?'
I doubt it would and TBH I tin't retrieve of anything sadder than caring enough nigh the thickness of a baby's pilus - a BABY FFS - to shave its poor footling caput.
oh i incertitude anyone shaving a baby's head would do it in such a manner as to upset the infant; i wouldnt assume that any parent with a shaven headed babe was some kind of monster.
Information technology is non that I think she would be more than beautiful if she had thicker hair, information technology is just that in my eldest information technology has bothered her that her pilus is extremely fine and just does not grow very much at all. I recall her at three years erstwhile pleading to have her hair in a bunch simply in that location was almost no hair at that place to make information technology work.
When people accept shaved the babies hair it is washed using clippers, not a razor, and it does not injure the infant.
Trimming the ends of hair to go rid of the whispy bits (as said above) makes information technology appear thicker. Shaving does not make pilus grow thicker.
Retrieve almost it, balding men shave their heads, does the pilus grow dorsum thicker? Blokes shave their heads for fashion, does it abound back thicker?
I am non sure if/why people in asian communities practice this just I would suspect it is more religion/tradition/cleanliness than thickness and fullness!
now ear piercing on a babe... thats Not Squeamish.
im certain two parents could shave a babys head in the bath without them even knowing anything was going on.
No no I don't assume anyone shaving a baby'due south caput would be a monster, of form not. I suppose I become cross at the uncomfortable things people make their babies wear/gel on hair/ear piercing etc and thought that this was however some other matter of that kind. Sorry to have jumped to the wrong conclusion.
My friend is from Bolivia, and its tradition there to do it. Her kids have very thick hair, but that could but be their genes!
and i am sorry TPL for overstating my response; didnt hateful to pick on you! 
DS2 was born with a mop of long black hair. Afterwards 6 weeks it was then long we had to cutting it with clippers (he had eczema behind his ears and the hair was getting stuck in it).
Underneath the dark hair was much lighter pilus. Now (at ix.5 months) he had fine whispy blonde hair, and lots of it. But not equally much every bit his "starting time" hair.
My mum and her sisters had/have fine 'nothingy' hair and mums younger sis was scalded on her head equally a very young child. She had to take her hair shaved off and it became beautifully thick when it grew dorsum. Mum wishes she had such locks!
I was going to shave Dd'due south pilus off to thicken it up, but couldn't make up my heed every bit I didn't want her soft curls turning into thick afro type pilus(like her fathers hair). Her hair, although fine still, is becoming more than full looking, so I think I did the right thing.
I believe that information technology does help thicken the pilus upwards, just don't really know why
I am half greek cypriot,my english language mum told me that the greek cypriots used to shave babies heads because they believed it would make the hair abound back thick and curly.
I shaved my 10 month old sons hair last week because information technology was getting in his confront and growing different lengths all over I didn't make him completely bald I did information technology with a number 5 it'southward growing back but I wouldn't say thicker but growing back at ane length I regretted it every bit before long as I shaved his hair I hope it grows back the same to any parent who is planning to do it don't shave information technology maybe only trim with comb and scissors
Attempt it. Nothing ventured etc.
How-do-you-do all,
Human logic is limited and then logical theories are not e'er right. Science is unlimited merely we only know so much.
Like fruits are good for you simply keep consuming them like that and yous volition end up with high blood glucose.
Shaving the baby hair (razor) definitely makes it thicker. The brain/allowed system just naturally makes it thick, it'south like why we accept pollen allergy.
Scientific discipline is a contradiction loop, what they said years ago, years subsequently they say unlike.
If balding men shaved hair it volition not grow quicker because their brain/immune arrangement has already adapted.
Shaving babies hair when they are newborn upwards until the first year will have thicker hair guaranteed. Also get your baby to eat or gustatory modality everything a few times (consumable foods I hateful) by the historic period of 3 and they will have a high chance non to get allergic reaction to that food. Afterward in life the brain/immune system controls usa not united states of america command them that's because you have to get it adapted in the outset identify not when your older!
This is ancient ways going back to when we lived in the jungle concrete land.
We're and so regulated when pregnant and giving nascency and beyond and notwithstanding it'southward more unsafe this mean solar day and age but before people were less regulated and kids were less sick less diseases.
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