Two Questions: Post Partum Hair Loss and Stopping Swaddling

1) For my first son it started falling out at around 8 weeks and began growing back in at about 16 weeks. For my second it started falling out at around 10 weeks and started growing back in at around 16 weeks. I had bald patches at both my temples, although the second time around the bald spots weren't quite as bad. I could still pull my hair back into a pony tail. The first time I couldn't pull my hair back for months. I know it's horrible while you're going through it, but I promise it will grow back.

2) I stopped swaddling with my kids when they escaping the swaddle while they slept. I then moved them to sleepy sacks.

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On the hair loss my hair falls out like crazy after I have a baby, I was freaking out after my first. My baby is 13months and I am still losing it a little I think my stylest said up to 2 years sometimes she has found...you won't go bald your are probably growing more in as it falls out.

don't know about the hair loss, but i stopped swaddling when, like your son, mine was strong enough and wiggly enough to get out of it pretty much immediately. he never seemed to get much out of it though, and was born holding his head up, so it was just a couple weeks before i gave it up. he was a fine sleeper without it. it sounds like maybe you're disturbing his sleep more by trying to re-wrap him? if that's the case i'd say it's definitely time to stop it. it may just be that he needs to simply get used to sleeping without it.

1) not sure!
2) on the swaddling, he may not want it but sounds like he needs it! I had the same thing happen with my DD. At first she loved the swaddle and could not sleep without it. Then she acted like she didn't want it and kept breaking out of it. So I tried to stop but this didn't go well and I finally figured out that even though she fussed, she still slept a lot better with the swaddle. So I found a better swaddle (the fuzzy swaddle me's with velcro at BRU) and she went back to loving it. That all happened around 8-12 weeks old. She is now 6 months and I just stopped swaddling her about 6 weeks ago.

Good luck to you!

At about the 4 month mark post partum, I lost significant amounts of hair. Perfectly normal. I don't recall how long it lasted but it did eventually lessen.

1- I started to lose my hair about 2- 3 months PP, it was so thick during pregnancy and then really thinned out, to deal with it I just got a shorter haircut (bob style). Around 6-7 months I began noticing all these little hairs growing back in and my hair returned to normal about 12 months PP.

2- With my first son I stopped swaddling around 3 1/2 months, he kept breaking out so I decided to just put him in a sleep sack bag (try Halo sleepsacks) and he slept through the night after that.

With my 2nd, I swaddled him past 6 months, it was the only way he'd sleep. I used a different kind of swaddle, The Woombie. It's great because it's stretchy so the baby can move his arms around and stays cozy w/out completely breaking out...it's SO easy to use. I think they even make a transitioning swaddle that's not quite as tight. www.thewoombie.com

No idea about eh hair loss but we swaddled my little one until she was like 6 months old. She would bust her arms out and whatnot but I still put her in like that. Used the miracle blanket, worked like a charm. But only at night time. DUring naps I never swaddled and she did just fine also.

1) I don't remember - I think I blocked that out :)
2) Swaddle as long as he sleeps better in it. Then gradually work out of it. I stopped by first leaving the feet free. Once he was used to that, I started leaving 1 arm free. Once he was used to that, I left both arms free but still 'swaddled' around his torso. Then gradually, made the blanket less and less tight.

My daughter will be 1 the end of this month, and I'm still losing hair!! It has definitely gotten better these past couple months, but no like it was.
I'm with you...I can't wait for it to be back to normal!