Pregnancy and hair growth are much linked. This is because of hormones. The female hormone, estrogen, is the one that causes hair to grow faster on women’s scalp than on men’s scalp. But women hold another advantage, progesterone. This hormone is found in the female’s body and its levels go very high on pregnancy. Progesterone and estrogen stimulate a rapid hair growth in women. Some of the hair follicles are in a latent state. This means that either they are not yet producing hair, or that the hair produced by these goes in a latent state of growth. Progesterone stimulates these hair follicles to grow faster, thus a pregnant women grows a thicker hair than usual. But in some cases, the progesterone level cause hair to grow in other parts of the body. This is a reversible effect once the pregnancy period is over, but the regression could last a few months.

Another reason for why pregnancy and hair growth are linked is due to pregnancy pills. These are mostly vitamins, minerals and proteins that are helping the pregnant women’s body to sustain better the embryo. These pills also give vitamins to the female body, thus giving the hair extra proteins and vitamins it grows a lot faster. Other than this, a pregnant woman sleeps a lot, because her body demand’s it. This is why; most times stress levels are very low. Because of this, the body does not waist important elements that promote a quick hair growth. After pregnancy, the woman can have a very long hair, and those that want to cut it off, can donate it to special associations that can help women that lost hair because of cancer.

If you love the hair, you can keep it, just remember the thing that a long hair needs special attention and in some cases you will not have time for this with a small baby around you. Hair on pregnant women’s scalp can grow much faster than on a regular woman’s hair. It can even reach 19 cm in just nine months. But some women are not that lucky. If they had a poor diet before pregnancy, they’ll grow a thin hair that is easily breakable.