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My Baby Is Bald? You Don’t Say
When I married my husband I knew the chances of us having bald or nearly bald babies was a very high possibility.
My husband and most of his siblings were bald well into toddlerhood. I had hair as a baby, but it was fine. We were anticipating a bald bundle of joy through the entire pregnancy. In fact, the only thing I remember my husband saying while I was in labor was that Tate had hair – he was elated.
Tate had some fine blond hair for the first month of his life before it started to disappear. But in the end he was just as bald as we had thought he might be. For me, it only adds to the cute factor: chubby cheeks, big blue eyes, and a fuzzy little head.
That isn’t to say it doesn’t drive me crazy that every person I meet feels the need to comment on how bald he is. The never-ending comparisons to Cabbage Patch dolls and Charlie Brown get old.
Did you have a bald baby? How did you handle comments of strangers? I am afraid I might start letting my irritation show.
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Kel commented on Oct 18 11 at 12:28 amMy almost six month old is bald. And if she follows in my follicles, she will be for another six months, too. I usually just say something like “Yeah, I was bald for a year, so she probably will be too.” It doesn’t bother me too much.
Whitney commented on Oct 18 11 at 8:52 amHave boy/girl 5 month old twins and they are both bald. Little man came out with (what I thought!) was a head full of brown hair but then he lost it all. Now they have some fine fuzz, but yep still pretty bald. I love bald babies!
Christine commented on Oct 18 11 at 1:12 pmAll three of my kids had a fair amount of black/brown hair when they were both, but then it all fell out and grew in as very fine blond hair (I was bald until I was 1 1/2, whereas my husband was born with enough hair to style and kept it all). A lady, a couple months ago when my daughter was around 6 months, came up to me and said “Oh she’s cute. But you know what? She’d be cuter if she had hair!”
If I wasn’t so polite I would have made a snide comment back, but instead I just said we are currently trying to find a wig that will fit her.
Maggie commented on Oct 18 11 at 2:43 pmMy 8 mo onld is bald (just some blond peach fuzz you can see in certain light). I totally adore it. I think its especially cute when they get bigger and are still bald so as far as I’m concerned the longer he stays bald the better! It doesnt bother me at all when people comment on it, I tihnk I’m almost proud of it because like you said, it adds to the cuteness factor with the big eyes and chubby cheek. And lets not forget the best thing about bald babies — more square inchage of that sweet prescoius baby skin to rub and kiss on!
Stephanie Miller commented on Oct 18 11 at 5:24 pmThe only comparisons I’ve heard about my baby’s bald head are from bald men saying he’s like a cuter version of them, lol. It’s always a little odd when a stranger tells my baby “hey, you look like me!” but for the most part we just laugh about it and of course we adore his bald little head.
Monica commented on Oct 19 11 at 9:55 amLet me just say it’s a heck of a lot easier when you have a bald boy than a bald girl. My oldest had hair, but only in the back. She kind of had the old man receding hair line look going on. There’s a picture of her at 4 months old that my dad always comments on calling her Judge Mills Lane. It didn’t matter how girly I had her dressed people would come up to me and say oh HE’S so cute. Thanks, but I don’t put my son in dresses (well not in public anyways). Careful what you wish for though because here we are some 12 years later with more hair than we know what to do with. Now my son, he came out with so much dark hair. Then it fell out and started coming back in very fine and very blonde. He will be 4 in 2 weeks and while he does have hair it is super fine. I still brush his hair with a baby brush because there’s not much hair to brush. It’s slow to grow too. He is in need of a haircut now, but his last one was 6 months ago. Really, it just needs a little trim up around the ears and a little in the back and he’ll be good to go. All I can say is at least he’s a boy. If any of my girls went this long with so little hair I think it would have been sheer torture.
Kate commented on Oct 29 11 at 12:17 pmBoth my boys came out with a full head of blond hair. In fact my oldest had no forehead, you couldn’t tell where his eyebrows ended and his hair started. He lost it off the forehead but kept all the rest. Everyone thought my boys were older than they were because of all the hair but were surprised they were behind where they thought they should be developmentally when in fact they were right on schedule
My oldest was so concerned and crying when I was pregnant with his brother that he was going to come out looking like his dad (Q ball bald).
Tia commented on Dec 04 11 at 12:30 ammy first baby was born with dark fuzz. Her hair didn’t really start growing in until she was closer to 1. She’s 2 1/2 and it’s still kind of short and thin, but trying to get thicker…at least sections of it (I’m happy to at least finally get some of her hair in a ponytail!). My newest baby has a light coating of fuzz on her head. They must be taking after me. It took me a few years before my hair started growing in when I was a baby, and when it did it grew in patches XD
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