Emily Johnson Facebook ad: “What Helped With My Postpartum Hair Loss”

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My OB said my hair loss is totally normal. Then she moved on… If your doctor told you to "just wait" while your hair falls out after baby I need you to read this because that advice almost cost me a year of my life. I'm 7 months postpartum with my first. A baby boy. He is everything to me. But I need to talk about what happened at my postpartum checkup. Because it changed how I handle everything now. I was about 4 months out from delivery. My hair had been falling out since month 3. Not a little. Clumps. Real clumps in the shower every single morning. My drain looked like something died in it. My ponytail was half the size it used to be. My temples had these thin see through patches that I'd never had in my life. During pregnancy strangers would comment on how thick my hair was. It was the best hair I'd ever had. And now it was just leaving. So I brought it up at my postpartum checkup. I'd been waiting for this appointment. I had it planned in my head. I was going to tell her everything that was happening and she was going to help me. She looked at me and kind of nodded. She said yeah that's telogen effluvium. It's from the hormone drop after delivery. It's totally normal. Should resolve in 6 to 12 months. And then she moved on. She didn't examine my scalp. She didn't touch my hair. She didn't offer a treatment. She didn't write anything down. She didn't even look concerned. It was like I told her I had a hangnail. I sat in the car afterward and just stared at the steering wheel. And I felt this wave of something I didn't expect. Not sadness. Anger. Like I just told you my hair is falling out in clumps every single day and your answer is just wait a year. A year. Do you know what a year looks like when you're already exhausted and overwhelmed and your body already doesn't feel like yours anymore. Do you know what it's like to pull a fistful of hair out of the drain every morning and be told that's normal. Do you know what it's like to watch your hairline disappear and have a medical professional shrug. I felt dismissed. I felt like my problem wasn't real enough to deserve help. I felt like she heard "hair loss" and thought vanity. But it wasn't vanity. It was me watching the last familiar piece of myself disappear. My body already changed. My sleep already changed. My entire life already changed. And I was okay with all of that because I got him. But my hair was the last thing that still looked like me. And her answer was just wait. So I went home and decided if nobody was going to help me I'd figure it out myself. I was already taking prenatals. Didn't help. I added biotin because that's what the internet says to do. The $40 bottle with the clean label. Six weeks of taking it every single day. Nothing changed. Then rosemary oil because TikTok said it's basically nature's Rogaine. Every night on my scalp. My pillowcase smelled like a pizzeria. My drain still looked like a crime scene every morning. Then Nutrafol at $88 a month. I felt sick spending that on myself when we had the pediatrician copay coming up and diapers to buy. But I was desperate. I took it for almost 10 weeks. The drain didn't care. And the whole time I kept hearing my doctor's voice in my head. It's normal. Just wait. Like maybe she was right. Maybe nothing works. Maybe I was being dramatic. That's what really got me. I started doubting myself. I started thinking maybe this is just what happens and I need to accept it. Maybe caring this much about my hair makes me shallow. Maybe I should just be grateful I have a healthy baby and stop complaining. But the clumps kept coming. And the part kept widening. And every morning I'd look in the mirror and not recognize the person staring back. Then I looked into Rogaine. Had it in my Amazon cart. Read the label. Not recommended while breastfeeding. And it wasn't just a generic warning. There's a published case of a baby developing abnormal hair growth because the mother was using it topically while nursing. I closed the tab. So the one treatment that actually works. The one thing dermatologists broadly agree on. Off limits. Because I was nursing my son. My doctor didn't mention that either by the way. She didn't tell me minoxidil exists but I can't use it. She didn't tell me what I could use instead. She just said wait. That was the whole plan. Wait and watch yourself disappear. Okay. So about two months ago I was at my friend Megan's house. Her daughter is 10 months old. Megan went through the exact same thing. Same shedding. Same doctor visit. Same "it's normal, just wait." We used to text each other pictures of our shower drains like look at this it's disgusting. That was our thing for a while. But when I saw her that day her hair looked different. Thicker. Like actually noticeably thicker. And along her hairline where those thin patches used to be I could see all these little baby hairs growing in. I grabbed her arm and said Megan what did you do. She kind of laughed and said a mom in her breastfeeding support group told her about this serum. A peptide serum specifically made for postpartum hair shedding. Not a supplement. Not a vitamin. Something you put directly on your scalp. I almost tuned out because I'd tried everything at that point and nothing worked. But Megan is the most skeptical person I know. She doesn't buy things without researching them to death. If she said it worked I needed to understand why. So she told me what the mom in her group had explained to her. And honestly it made me angry. Not at Megan. At my doctor. Because it made so much sense and nobody told me. So apparently when you give birth your hormones crash. Like your estrogen and progesterone plummet within days of delivery. And that crash basically shocks your hair follicles into shutting down all at once. They go into this dormant mode. Like hibernation or something. That's why so much hair falls out at the same time. But here's the thing. They're not dead. They're not damaged. They're just dormant. Waiting for a signal that the crisis is over and it's safe to grow again. Now think about what my doctor told me. Just wait. Wait for what exactly. Wait for the signal to arrive on its own. Which could take 6 months. 12 months. 18 months. And think about what I was taking in the meantime. Biotin. Prenatals. Rosemary oil. Nutrafol. All nutritional. All designed to feed your hair. Which sounds right but my follicles weren't hungry. They were asleep. Megan said the mom in her group put it like this. It's like putting gas in a car that has a dead battery. You can fill the tank all day long. But if the battery is dead the engine isn't turning over. The gas was never the issue. You need a jump start. That's when everything clicked. My doctor told me to wait for the battery to recharge on its own. The supplements I was taking were just filling a tank that didn't need filling. And the one thing that could actually jump start it I couldn't use because I was breastfeeding. No wonder I felt stuck. No wonder nothing worked. Nobody gave me the right information. Not my OB. Not the biotin bottle. Not the $88 a month Nutrafol. Nobody. What Megan was using is called Maven. It's a peptide serum. You put it on your scalp once a day. Takes like 30 seconds. The peptides work at the follicle level to support that wake up signal. Like telling your dormant follicles the hormonal crash is stabilizing and it's okay to start growing again. And because it goes on your scalp and not in your mouth it doesn't enter your bloodstream. Doesn't get into breastmilk. It's hormone free. No minoxidil. Nothing systemic. Megan said she looked into the peptides and apparently they've been studied. Real clinical results behind how they work on follicle cycling. Not TikTok science. Not influencer marketing. Actual research. The kind of information my doctor could have given me four months ago if she'd taken my concern seriously. But the part that really got me was when Megan said you don't have to stop breastfeeding to use it. I made her say it twice. Because that was the whole reason I felt trapped. My doctor didn't give me options. She gave me a dismissal. Maven was the option she never mentioned. I ordered the 3 month bundle that night. I'm going to be honest though. First two weeks nothing happened. I almost gave up. But Megan said give it a month. So I kept going. Around week 3 I noticed my drain wasn't as bad. The clumps were smaller. Less hair in the brush. Less hair on his onesie. By week 5 I saw them. These tiny little baby hairs at my temples. The wispy ones that stick straight up and look ridiculous but you don't even care because they're new growth. They're proof. My husband noticed before I even pointed them out. He touched my hairline and said is this new. I almost cried. I'm about 9 weeks in now. My part looks narrower. My ponytail has weight again. Like I can feel it when I pull it through the hair tie. The shedding isn't gone completely but it's normal amounts now. Not the clumps. Not the fistfuls. Not the horror show in the drain. But here's what actually matters. Last week we were at the park. My husband wanted a photo of me and the baby. And I said yes. I didn't turn my head. I didn't angle to hide my temples. I didn't ask to see it first so I could delete it. I just held my son and smiled. And when I looked at that photo later I saw someone I recognized. Not all the way back. But her. Me. No thanks to my doctor. I found the answer myself. I know some of you are in that place right now. You went to your OB. You told her about the shedding. She said it's normal. She said wait. And you went home feeling like your problem isn't real. It is real. And you don't have to just wait. Maybe you're thinking she's probably right though and it'll grow back on its own. And yeah maybe eventually. But eventually means 6 to 18 months of active shedding. Then another 6 to 12 months of slow regrowth. That's up to two and a half years before your hair feels normal. Two and a half years of headbands and hiding buns. First birthday photos you dread. Going back to work feeling like a shadow of yourself. Holidays where you avoid the camera. Your doctor's plan is for you to just live through all of that. Maybe you're thinking I'll keep trying supplements. A 2024 study measured biotin levels in women with this exact type of hair loss. No deficiency found. Their levels matched women who weren't losing hair at all. More of a nutrient you're not deficient in can't fix a signaling problem. Your doctor didn't tell you that either. Maybe you're thinking I'll wait until I'm done breastfeeding and use minoxidil. But that could be 6 more months. 12 more months. Every month your follicles sit in dormant mode not getting the signal to restart. And minoxidil is designed for genetic hair loss. Not postpartum hormonal shedding. Different problem. Your doctor didn't tell you that either. Maven is the only thing I found that was built for this exact situation. Postpartum shedding. Breastfeeding safe. Works through the actual mechanism behind why our hair falls out after baby. Not a vitamin. Not a blood flow drug. A follicle level signal that tells dormant hair to wake up. They have a 100 day money back guarantee. Which mattered to me because I'd already wasted hundreds on things that didn't work because nobody pointed me in the right direction. If it doesn't help you email them and get your money back. You're not stuck with another expensive mistake. That's enough time to see whether the drain looks different. Whether your part fills in. Whether those baby hairs show up at your temples. You'll know. I got the 3 month bundle and so did Megan. That's the window where you go from shedding to seeing real new growth. It works out to about $43 a month. Half what I was paying for Nutrafol for something that wasn't even addressing the right problem. They're running their Seasonal Sale right now so it's the lowest price I've seen. One thing I'll say. When I went back to reorder last month the page said sold out. Had to wait two weeks for the next batch. If it's showing available right now I wouldn't sit on it. I put the link right below. I almost didn't post this. But I keep thinking about the version of me sitting in that car after my appointment. Staring at the steering wheel. Feeling dismissed and small and alone. If I could go back and tell her one thing it would be your doctor is wrong. Not about the diagnosis. About the plan. There is no plan. And you deserve better than just wait. You grew a whole human being. You kept that human alive with your body. You deserve a doctor who takes that seriously. And until that doctor exists you deserve to take it seriously yourself.

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