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I was always told this was an old wives tale, but then I found a study on the internet that Johns-Hopkins did a study and found that women who reported heartburn really did have babies with more hair.
I'm having TERRIBLE heartburn this pregnancy, much worse than my first, and am expecting this baby to have some luscious locks. I'd love to hear of real experiences to validate my expectations
I've heard that too and, at least for me, it did not hold true. I had terrible heartburn with my second pregnancy and while not bald, did not have gobs of hair either.
Take some Tums and feel better. No one told me I could have Tums while pregnant and boy did I suffer!!
I was always told this was an old wives tale, but then I found a study on the internet that Johns-Hopkins did a study and found that women who reported heartburn really did have babies with more hair.
I'm having TERRIBLE heartburn this pregnancy, much worse than my first, and am expecting this baby to have some luscious locks. I'd love to hear of real experiences to validate my expectations
Yeah, it's just an old wives tale. I had horrible heartburn with my first and she was bald as a cue ball. Same with my younger one (although my doctor had told me that I would have heartburn at some point in that pregnancy due to acid scarring from the heartburn in my first pregnancy).
I only had heartburn with my first pregnancy and she did have a lot of hair. It didn't really fall out much and she has really long hair now. I didn't have any the second or third time and my second had hair at birth, but much less and did go completely bald his first year. My third had A TON of hair at birth. It thinned out quite a bit, but he never went bald like my second and has a lot of now at age one.
I would like to compare genetics for this. Are people with certain genetics more prone to heartburn and do those genetics coincidentally produce more hair?
From my personal experiences, Asian babies are usually born with a lot of hair. I don't know if Asian women experience more heartburn than say western European women. Does height factor in? I am very tall with a longer torso, so my organs don't get as squished. My daughter sat further back in my body (I didn't look the slightest bit pregnant until 7-8 months and even then people weren't certain when they looked at me) which may have put more pressure on my stomach producing heartburn, whereas my sons were more forward and I had much bigger bellies with them and no heartburn. There may be a correlation, but I think the answer is more than yes or no.
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