Representing for the Non-Baldies
My five-month old daughter is one of the few.
One of the proud.
One of the infants born with a full head of hair.
I’m not talking about some sort of wimpy fuzz. No, this chick had hair. The nurses actually couldn’t get over the fact that it even had golden highlights in it from day one and joked that they themselves paid serious money for those kinds of highlights.
It’s pretty much the first thing people remark upon when seeing her for the first time. Not her beautiful blue eyes, or long eyelashes, or her lovely smile which radiates joy.
Yet all around me, I see discrimination against her.
If you look at ads for baby items, from diapers to soap, pretty much all of the babies are bald. Oh, maybe one or two have a patch of wannabe hair on the tippy-top, but for the most part display lots of pink skin.
So is my daughter is going to grow up with a complex about her abundant locks ? Will she look at all of her baby friends and realize she is the only one able to utilize a headband for the actual purpose for which it was made, not just to match her outfit? Will the toddlers down the block snicker behind their hands and say, “Looks like somebody could use a visit to the salon!” Or parents who see her full mane and whisper, “Shouldn’t that kid be walking yet?” not realizing she’s only six months old.
Do follicularly blessed babies not cry when pricked, or laugh when tickled?
They may resemble all the rest in that, they just do it with better hair.
Yes! My son was born with a full head of strawberry-blonde hair, that has now (on the eve of his 9-month-birthday!) lightened to more blonde than strawberry. While he did lose a little hair around the 4-month mark, he has never been bald, and looks like a toddler!
Both my children (one girl, one boy) were bald bald bald until the age of 2 and even when their hair started coming in it was blonde so you couldn’t see it anyway.
I took all the money I saved on haircuts and bought hats.
Korean babies. I swear, all of us are born with full heads of hair.
Yeah, I hear “Look at that HAIR!” all the time. My son had a respectable head full of reddish-brown hair right from day one, and barely lost any. But all of the babies in my family were born with hair, so to me, bald babies are almost a little funny-looking.
You could see our daughter’s hair on the ultrasound. Right now we’re waiting for it to grow out a bit more so it can be styled. At the moment, if you comb it wrong, it looks more like a mullet.
Rejoice and be thankful, Glinda–I think it’s much harder to have a baby girl whose hair doesn’t grow much at all. All those comments will be made from motivations of pure envy.
I would be thankful, except her hair is too fine to keep a barette in, and too short (even though her bangs hang in her eyes unless brushed off) for a headband to look good since the hair just sort of sticks up rather than lays flat. Sigh.
Yes, well, we have been reduced to allowing our baby out in public resembling a bean sprout. She has gorgeous, very fine, abundant red hair that covers her eyes when unconstrained. I would like it to grow out. The baby eats barrettes. So we have been tying it up in a sprout on the top of her head with those little rubber bands that you sometimes have to cut out to remove. Happily she is at an age where everyone just says,’Oh, she’s so adorable!” and we let it go at that. I’m sure she’ll hate all her baby pictures when she’s 7, but I don’t know what else to do.
Little Sprout makes a variety of gels, mousses and detanglers for babies which are all-natural:
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Thanks for the tip, raincoaster!