Heartburn = Hair

[Margerle]

Supposedly if you have lots of heartburn in pregnancy, baby will have a lot of hair...

Sounds like there is a method to the madness here... Supposedly upwards of 80% of pregancies where mama's had measured heartburn through the course of pregnancy, had babies with hair.

Folklore rings true: Heartburn during pregnancy associated with hairy babies
It's not just an old-wives' tale. Pregnant women who suffer from heartburn have hairier babies. That's what researchers at Johns Hopkins University found when they studied pregnant women, according to the latest issue of the journal Birth.

“We’ve heard this claim hundreds of times, and I’ve always told people it’s nonsense,” lead author Kathleen Costigan tells the New York Times. “Since the study came out, I’ve had to eat a lot of crow.”

"Contrary to expectations, it appears that an association between heartburn severity during pregnancy and newborn hair does exist," she and the other researchers write. "We propose a shared biologic mechanism involving a dual role of pregnancy hormones in both the relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter and the modulation of fetal hair growth."

https://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/02/folklore_rings_.html

Where are my TUMS???

 

[PitBullMommy]

Woo-Hoo! Charlotte won't be a bald little girl!

 

[Samantha675]

My kid is sooo going to be totally bald!!!

 

[GAURDIANANGEL]

lol.
i think i shoud lay off the tacos
or maybe not
my baby is defanitely gonna have hair

 

[Serene123]

My babies going to be bald LOL

 

[Linzi]

Looks like my little one will be comming out with a full on afro.

My boyfriend has early baldness on his side of the family in boys, so its probably a girl!

xxx

 

[Tilly]

I had lots of heartburn and Bethanie didn't have LOADS of hair.

 

[lauren-kate]

I had bad heartburn and Ryan hardly has any hair at all. x

 

[Rachel]

I had no heartburn at all with Nathan and he was born with hair, not much but he had it

I've got no heartburn this time either

 

[goldlion]

I haven't had much heartburn at all but I have a feeling that bubs will be hairy as my DH is a hairy Italian I have a feeling she won't get my blond hair either... his genes seem so dominant.

 

[luckyme225]

In that case this kid will come out needing a hair cut.... I figured he would have a lot of hair anyway considering both Ty and I have super thick hair.

 

[KarenLV]

My mom said she had heartburn when she expected me and I came out bald. Only started getting hair after 3 months,however I now have very very thick hair.

 

[kookie]

i had no heartburn at all with my first he came out bald with my second and third heartburn was horrible they both had thick black hair maybe just coincidence who knows.lol

 

[Tezzy]

i had no heartburn with rhys and he had lots of hair

 

[ColtonsMom]

I have had terrible heartburn. I have always expected he will have hair. I had a head full and so did my OH when we were born. I told OH he will need a haircut on the way home!