Does Prenatal Vitamins Help Your Hair to Grow?

There was no change in my hair growth when I took prenatal vitamins or when I was pregnant. My nails, however, did grow much more quickly when I took prenatal vitamins.

It's the pregnancy hormones that help your hair look more full.
While pregnant it's common for you to stop shedding hair - we naturally shed a certain number of hairs a day.
Once the baby is delivered and our bodies revert to non pregnant state, there is a massive dropping off of all that hair that's been waiting for approx 9 months to shed.
Then the new hair begins to grow in a few months (the follicle remains dormant for roughly 2 months before a new hair begins to grow) and out hair gradually begins going back to normal again.

When I read about it, it is the pregnancy. It doesnt help your hair grow faster, but during pregnancy your hair does not shed as much, which makes it fuller and seem thicker.
Unfortunately after all 3 of my pregnancies, my hair started falling out at rapid speeds and I never stopped taking my prenatals.
My baby is 18 months and I still take them.
My vote is hormones.

Not sure if it is pregnancy in general or the prenatal vitamins... but I worked with an older woman and she said her nails grew super fast and she could swear at night, she could hear her hair growing... She was a nut..

I think it just gives you healthier looking hair and keeps from shedding.. That s why so many moms come n hear freaking out after giving birth, that they are losing hair.

I have been told it is metabolism which is why working out and exercising has the same effect.

Oh, the thought process behind it is the higher your metabolism is the faster you are regenerating cells. So like with nails it is not that they are stronger but they are growing fast enough they can get pretty long before you break them.

I always felt it was the increased blood flow that caused the hair growth.

when I took them with both of my pregnancies, I noticed far less hair was coming out in my fingers when I showered every day. Not sure if it was longer but it fell out less.

The prenatal vitamins generally make the hair and nails stronger, but I would imagine the length/rate of growth to be the work of the pregnancy hormones.

It's the pregnancy hormones. Enjoy your hair now, don't get too attached to it, and try not to be too upset when it all falls out afterwards.

Probably Yarrmatey has thick hair already, so she didn't notice a big change. But for people who tend to have hair loss or have thinnish hair, the difference during pregnancy can be dramatic.