Keisha Thompson Facebook ad: “How I stopped my postpartum shedding”

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A mama I was helping with breastfeeding started crying in my office last week. Not about the baby. About her hair. She said "nobody told me it would fall out like this." I had to tell her the truth. It happened to me too. I'm a lactation consultant. Been helping new mamas for nine years. My whole job is knowing what's safe to take while you're breastfeeding. So when my own hair started falling out, I knew the hard part right away. The main thing they push for hair is minoxidil. And you can't use it while you're breastfeeding. So I was stuck before I even started. When I was pregnant my hair was the thickest it ever been. Long, full, laid every day. Everybody wanted to know my secret. Then my baby hit about three months and it started. ‎ I'd be in the shower, run my fingers through, and come out with a handful. Every time. In the drain, on my pillow, all over the bathroom floor. I kept telling myself it's normal. It's just that new mama shedding. It'll pass. It didn't pass. So I asked around like everybody does. My doctor said it's just postpartum shedding. Give it time, it'll grow back. The mama blogs said the same thing. My own mama said the same thing. So I waited. ‎ Six months. Then nine. But it wasn't growing back. My part was getting wider. My edges and my temples were getting thin. And I started to wonder if "it'll grow back" was even true for me. So I did the only thing I safely could. I bought every hair vitamin made for postpartum mamas. Biotin gummies. Took them every day for months. Nothing. Collagen. Supposed to help it grow back. My nails got stronger. My hair kept falling. Rosemary oil and castor oil on my edges every night. Stained my pillowcases and that's about it. I was doing every safe thing there was. And my hair kept on falling. That's when I started thinking maybe this was just how it was now. Maybe my hair was gone with my old body and it wasn't coming back. Maybe I was a wrap-and-wig mama now. For good. One night I was nursing my baby in the dark, just crying. Thinking I'd never look like myself in her pictures. So I stopped waiting on "it'll grow back." I found a Black trichologist. A woman who's spent her whole career on nothing but our hair. First thing she asked was what I'd been using. I told her. The vitamins. The collagen. The oils. She nodded and said "all of that feeds hair you already have. None of it wakes up what your hormones shut down." I never heard nobody put it like that. Then she explained what was really going on. She said when you have a baby, your hormones drop off a cliff. And all that thick pregnancy hair? It lets go all at once. That part is normal. That part does grow back. ‎ But here's what she said nobody warns Black women about. We've been wearing tight braids and sew-ins for years. So a lot of our follicles were already weak from all that pulling. Then the baby hormones hit. And a lot of them don't just shed. They shut all the way down. They go to sleep. ‎ And a sleeping follicle can't be fed. That's why the vitamins did nothing. I was feeding hair that was still growing, and ignoring the ones that had gone quiet. She told me to think about somebody asleep. You can set a plate of food right by the bed. But a person who's asleep ain't gonna eat. You got to wake them up first. My follicles were asleep. Shut down from the hormones. Every vitamin I took was just that plate of food. Sitting by the bed. Nobody is awake to eat it. So she put me on a micro-infusion treatment. It's a little tool with tiny gold needles. You press it gentle along your part and your edges. It gets down past the dead skin and wakes the sleeping follicles back up. And it carries the good stuff straight down to the root, instead of sitting on top. ‎ But the first thing I did was check if it was safe to use while breastfeeding. It was. No pills, nothing going through your milk. It's called DermDe. I ordered it that night. I'm not gonna lie. The first month I almost quit. Then around week 3, there wasn't as much hair coming out in the shower. I used to lose a whole handful. This time it was just a few strands. By week 6, my edges. Little soft baby hairs coming in along my hairline. I damn near cried right there in the bathroom. Around month 3, my part wasn't splitting wide open no more. The bald spot was filling in. Then one day I took a picture with my baby. Wore my hair down. Didn't wrap it. Didn't hide. It was the first picture with her I actually kept. Remember that mama crying in my office? She'd been staring at my edges the whole time we was talking. Finally she just asked me straight out what I did. I ain't have to sell her nothing. She seen it growing back on my own head. Every hair vitamin made for new mamas is built to feed your hair. But postpartum hair loss for black women ain't a feeding problem. It's sleeping follicles. The kind years of tight styles left behind. And you can't feed a follicle awake. You gotta wake it up. I linked DermDe below. Don't wait on "it'll grow back" like I did. Mine never did, not till I woke it up. Don't waste your money on more vitamins that just feed hair that's already gone quiet. And don't hide from one more picture with your baby. 👉 https://dermde.com/products/hair-regrowth-treatment-kit My only regret is how long I waited. My baby's whole first year, I was hiding under wraps instead of being in the pictures. All cause I believed it would just grow back on its own. It wouldn't. Not till I woke it up. ‎ P.S. Give it about 3 weeks before you judge it. The shedding slows down first. The new growth comes later, around month two. And take a picture of your edges and your part right now, so you got a before. Trust me. You gon want it.

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How I stopped my postpartum shedding

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