heartburn= hairy bubs

**beansbeans!** · December 5th, 2011, 03:28 PM

I was just wondering what the reasoning is behind the whole saying that having heartburn means bubs has a lot of hair?

***Nikki*** · December 5th, 2011, 03:38 PM

I'm really not sure.... But I had the worst heartburn with dd and she had a full head of hair
This pregnancy I've hardly had any heartburn so will be interesting to see if it's a baldy or not

**briggsy's girl** · December 5th, 2011, 03:43 PM

Terrible heartburn. Babe with so little hair I may as well say she was bald!

**Rowellen** · December 5th, 2011, 03:43 PM

Both my bubs had hair. Especially DD. I didn't have heartburn. Everyone asked if I had heartburn when they saw DD. I have no idea why though as I hadn't really heard it before. Old wives tales probably based on nothing

**MrsFabuloso** · December 5th, 2011, 03:54 PM

I had terrible heartburn with DD and she was a hairy little gorilla, DS1 it wasn't too bad and he was only a little hairy, and DS2 it was a bit worse than with DS1 but not so bad as DD and he was in between DD and DS1 with hairy-ness!
I have actually read an article which says there really is some correlation between beartburn and hairness of babies. Something to do with the hormones needed to grow hair or something....I can't remember where I saw it now though

**sahbear** · December 5th, 2011, 03:54 PM

I had terrible heartburn. If one more person at the time said I was going to have a hairy baby, I was going to scream!
I did have a babe with some hair on his head. Lovely coincidence.

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**Charlotte91** · December 5th, 2011, 03:56 PM

I had horrible horrible heartburn with DD. She was born at 34 weeks with sooo much hair!
We joke that if she went fullterm she would have come out with dreadlocks.
It was sooo cute.

**PumpkinZulu** · December 5th, 2011, 04:14 PM

Terrible, awful heartburn. DD was born with lots of dark hair. All fell put and is now slowly growing back, but strawberry blonde.

**ElleJay** · December 5th, 2011, 04:18 PM

Horrible heartburn with DS - and he was completely bald!

Worse heartburn with this one, interested if she'll be a baldy too

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**Beautiful Disaster** · December 5th, 2011, 04:19 PM

My DS had a full head of hair and I had no heart burn what so ever

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**Lily Dust** · December 5th, 2011, 04:30 PM

I think it really is just one of those old wives tales, like carrying high/ low/ left/ right etc etc. FWIW I had bad heartburn and DD looked like she had stuck her finger in a power socket......SO much hair

**kristi14** · December 5th, 2011, 04:47 PM

Severe heartburn here with quite a few of mine. So severe that with 2 of them i was vomitting blood and needed to be hospitalised both times and have a blood transfusion one of those times. All born bald lol. The ones where i didnt suffer bad heartburn were the ones born with lots of hair.

**Cranky Kitten** · December 5th, 2011, 04:56 PM

Heh, with DD I had heartburn to the point of vomiting blood as well, she ummm, had *some* hair when she was born - but it was all down her back not on her head.

With Penguin I had bad heartburn and would vomit, but no blood this time. He is a fuzzy little monkey with hair down his back, on his shoulders and even tufts of fuzz on his ears...and he has some (but not much) on his head, so beats DD in the fuzz stakes

**beansbeans!** · December 5th, 2011, 05:50 PM

thanks ladies.

I had heart burn with DD1 and she was as bald as, and she didnt get any decent hair growth until she was 2yrs. DD2 I had the same heartburn and she had so much hair she looked like a monkey when she was born

This time round Im getting the heartburn back, so who knows.

(Ok so after writing this Im not sure it makes sense)
So my question comes about because the other night I was laying in bed with some really bad heartburn. And it got me thinking about the whole old wives tale. Sprout is head down, so if it has hair on its head then I couldnt work out how it could be annoying my stomach. So that made me think that maybe sprout has hairy feet, afterall thats what's closest to my stomach..

But then that got me thinking, and it went downhill from there. And now I cant work out the thinking behind such an old wives tale.

**Lisa** · December 5th, 2011, 06:00 PM

My DS2 was by far my hairiest baby, born with a full head of hair that never dropped and is still as thick as ever today yet I had the worst ever heartburn with DD1 & DD2 and they were both born with much smaller amounts of hair compared to DS2.