A Hairy Tale

Everyone has been bugging me to get Immy’s hair cut – my Mum, my Dad, my friends, and at times even Dad 101.

But I refuse to. And there is a good reason for my refusal, you see, when I saw this 3D ultrasound picture a month before Immy was born…

A Tale of Baby Hair
…I thought I was having a baby with hair. I mean, doesn’t that look like hair to you, up the top, in the top right hand corner? I was so excited at the thought of a baby with hair. They always look so cute and it looks more girly and I could put clips in it and…. the happiness was overwhelming.

Then Immy was born…

A Tale of Baby Hair
…and as much as I love her, the hair was just no longer there! Instead we had a little peach fuzz and it wasn’t long before even that wore off. What is a Mum to do? Certainly no hair clips were necessary here!

Nineteen months later and finally Immy’s hair has started to grow. Sort of. At least the front and the back have but we still seem to be missing luscious long locks on either side.

So the reason everyone tells me to get it cut is because the top ‘fringe’ (if you could call it that) now hangs in her eyes. I have tried to clip it back…

A Tale of Baby Hair
..but then it sort of looks like a really bad comb over, a bit like the one her great-grumpy used to sport!

Alternatively, we have the fountain, a la Pebbles Flintstone…

A Tale of Baby Hair

…which works well until Immy remembers it’s there and then pulls it out and we are immediately back to square one, hair in the eyes.

So to cut or not to cut? I must say that to me every hair on this little head is precious and even though my hairdresser girlfriend has tried to convince me that if I have it trimmed it will make it thicker (I would like to see the scientific evidence supporting that theory!), I think I would rather wait until we can have a proper first haircut. One where I can come away with a lock to keep as a special treasure. Besides, before too long it will be long enough to tuck behind her ear. The question, of course, is how long? Hopefully before she turns 5!

Oh, and I also think that that sonographer has a lot to answer for, getting my hopes up like that.

P.S. I also thought that we were going to have a baby with red hair as Dad 101 has a head of hair of the true blue Ginger Meggs variety. I had my fingers crossed for a nice strawberry blonde or the beautiful red of Kate Winslet in Titanic. Instead, we seem to have been struck with the blonde wand.

What are your thoughts about baby haircuts? When did your baby have their first cut?

8 Comments

  1. Leigh - Mum e Assistant says:

    my son was about 16 months when he had his first hair cut….and that was because it was just getting too long. In regards to thickening hair up….hair definately doesn't not get thicker if you keep it trimmed,…my mum kept my hair short until I was 4 and I still to this day (at 35!)I have very little painfully thin hair!!! I would also love to see that research

  2. Super Sarah says:

    Amy also had NO hair for ages and then suddenly it grew quite quickly from about 14 months till 18 months when she had her first hair cut. We cut her a blunt fringe and a tidied up the ends into a sweet little bob and she looked adorable! With hindsight I wouldn't cut the fringe as it took ages to grow out and we had the same old problem of her not keeping clips in so always having her hair hanging in her face. Now its long and in need of a cut again!

  3. I have boys so I'm not going to comment on the haircuts and thickening of hair. I will just use the clippers until they get trendy enough to demand a different cut. But about the red hair … people's hair normally gets darker as they get older, so you may get a strawberry blonde yet! (btw, that is what happened to me I was blonde until a teenager and am now complimented on my red hair!)

  4. Erin was a baldy too. Her head was still velvety at her first birthday, it's still short now, I think I've got one good photo of her with a Pebbles and that was before I cut it because it was getting all matted at the back.

  5. Raising a Happy Child says:

    Immy's hair look very cute. We are "bang people" here, my husband trims the bangs. I think he did it for the first time, when Anna was about 9 month – her hair was getting into her eyes and she was refusing to wear anything in her hair – no hairclips, no ponytails. It's still the same today, and we keep cutting the bangs and letting the rest grow wildly.

  6. we took our daughter just for a fringe cut at about 8 months and regularily got it done – now where everyone is having massive hairdresser issues with tehir kids my girl are excited about getting their hair done – I guess socialising young to something like a hair cut can be a good thing too

  7. My daughter was a child with hair. It was reddish like Grace (from Will and Grace), and by 6 months she was blonde!

    She had a rats tail at the back that was removed my hairdresser at 6 weeks old (it needed to go). She had a trim at about a year old, as the length was all uneven, and has refused to go the hairdresser ever since! She let me cut it when she turned 3, and I gave her a bob, to get rid of the ratty, uneven length baby hair (it was half way down her back).

    She has a double crown, and a couple of cow licks so her hair fringe has naturally fallen to the right side and out of her eyes – though not out of her food!!!

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