Wellbeing

Your postpartum body: an honest, kind field guide

5 min read · MyBloomingBelly editorial

Your body just completed the most demanding project of its life; the aftermath has a timeline of its own, and almost none of it matches Instagram. Here is the honest field guide.

Hair: around months 3–4, hair sheds dramatically. This is the hair that pregnancy hormones held onto, all leaving at once — it is not true hair loss, and it regrows over the following months. The little baby-hair fringe at your temples at month six is the regrowth, not the damage.