Hair today, gone tomorrow

When Girlie was about five seconds old and we saw her abundant hair, we had high hopes she'd not have to be a bald baby ever, let alone for as long as her brothers did. Unfortunately, very suddenly, her hair this week started to jump ship just as their did.

I guess hope springs eternal. Boy 1 didn't have enough hair at birth to even wonder about. But with Boy 2's more prominent tresses, we'd falsely believed Boy 2 would escape baby-pattern baldness. Here he is at just a couple days old. But several weeks after, it turns out, said infant cue-ball syndrome took over.

Here's Girlie's current follicular state in comparison. From behind, she still has the locks of a young Elvis. And her left profile is fairly lush, too. But take a look at what the last 48 hours have done to her right side.


Today hair has literally been rubbing off her head at the lightest touch. There was a film of brunette fuzz over the surface of her bath water tonight. At this rate, she only has a week left before she'll be out with her girlfriends wig-shopping.

Ah, well. What remains to be seen now is what kind of hair grows in its place. Boy 1 and Boy 2 (and, I'm told by those in the know, I, too) all had fine but very dark hair as infants before losing it. A somewhat thicker white-blond took its place. Boy 1's has since thickened substantially and darkened to a light brown while Boy 2's is still blond and rather wispy. But both of them had a good, oh, eight months of near-total baldness between the first and second hair.

Seems like a lot of work to grow it just to lose it. Kind of makes me wonder why baby hair is ever there at all.