The hair for a newborn can be very sparse, they can even be bald, but these are very common. As long as the child does not have any physical problems or other unusual symptoms, such as the scalp ulceration, abnormal tooth growth, parents do not have to worry too much about it. Generally after a few months later, the child's hair will gradually started to growth and become denser!

Hair development progress

The early stage of hair development for the new born will start through some tender light hair before eventually evolving into permanent hair, time period may vary individually. In general, the fetus hair will start to grow in the twenty weeks pregnant period. For every newborn there will be hair loss from the (back of the neck area) and two times from the (top of the head area), these natural hair will loss replace by the new growth hair. After six months, hair growth will entered another stage, they will have a lot more permanent hair and began a steady hair growth cycles.

In Chinese custom, for the one month old baby, parents will help shaved off their baby’s hair to stimulate and promote new growth hair, they believe this process will help the new grow hair become more strong and dense. Today, this concept is still no scientific basis to refer to shave can have hair growth benefit. In fact, when babies were born 2 or 3 months, slow hair growth is still in the stage, parents should not blindly follow because of concerns over the effectiveness of unproven method of hair growth. Usually 6 months after birth, the hair will grow gradually, if more than one year but not yet growing signs of hair can take them to doctors for detailed examination.