Tuesday

baby hair and heartburn

A new study says that the old wives tale about pregnant women with heartburn giving birth to babies with a HEAD FULL O' HAIR may actually be true.

If so, I suspect that this baby may be well-tressed. I never had much heartburn in my previous pregnancies (although all three babies had hair - Jane had tons of black hair), but this time I am already suffering with heartburn, particularly at night.

I was bald as an egg as a baby until 12 months or so. Then I apparently developed some wispy blond hair. Jon was also a bald-then-blond baby. Odds are low that we will have a newborn with a head full of hair. But we'll see...
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2 comments:

Laura said...

for me personally it was nothing but an old bitties' tale...just like all the others.
4 babies i birthed. all girls. all pregnancies uniquely different from one another. one with incredible heartburn meaning i carried mylanta with me everywhere and slept in a chair and....
yup! she was as bald as a cueball and so were the other kids...but my bald babies all have perfectly round, beautiful heads!
LOL

Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 7:40:00 PM GMT
Anonymous said...

No matter the hair, but heartburn can be a serious matter. I had increasingly worse heartburn with each of my three pregnancies---all boys, all lots of hair. The heartburn went away between the pregnancies, but did not go away after the third child. I later was diagnosed with esophagitis and some damage. The gastro doc told me that during pregnancy the woman produces a hormone that helps loosen muscles and ligature so that the bones can move and accomodate the birth. This hormone also causes the hiatal muscle to loosen, leading to hiatal hernias in many women. The loose muscle allows stomach acid to reflux. Not something to leave untreated.

Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 12:18:00 AM GMT

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