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Hailey’s always like playing with hair. Those of you who have been here for a while, may remember me posting about her playing (and later pulling) my hair while I would try to feed her. That eventually stopped, and for a long time now, has only been hair twirling… it’s a habit she does- when she’s tired, nervous, bored, she sucks the fingers of her right hand and twirls her hair with the left.
I always thought it was kind of cute, but lately (since starting daycare, I think) it’s gone from hair twirling to hair pulling. She pulls her hair so hard that she’s actually pulling it right out of her head and going bald!! I don’t think it’s anxiety, since she seems quite fine emotionally, so I don’t know what it is. She’s basically had a cold since starting daycare, and so I don’t know if it’s a reflux issue. I’ve tried to up her meds, but it’s made no difference so we’re back at 30mg.
I’ve tried to get her to hold something else in that hand, she has a stuffed animal that she sleeps with, but she just keeps at it. When her hands are busy she’s fine, but most of the day, she really just sits there sucking her fingers and pulling her hair. I’ve tried putting a hat on her head, but she just pulls it off. I swear I’m temped to try a wig!!
But the hairpulling… it’s wierd and it’s really starting to worry me- especially now that her beautiful, thick hair has a HUGE bald spot. Any ideas what I should do? I’m ready to call the ped, but I know he won’t have any ideas.
I swear it’s just one thing after another around here.
s&h’s mum 2006-9-18 21:27:43 Sorry I can’t help you but wanted to let you know you are not alone. My son does the same thing. He started pulling his hair out when he was at his worse & if he couldn’t get to his he would pull mine. As he got better I gave him a little hand made pillow he can put his fingers through the loops & he loves it. I do notice however, if he is not doing well he still pulls his hair out roots & all. I spoke to the ped GI about this & he said there is no medical condition that would cause this
. It appears to me he is in pain when he does this & I plan on asking the allergist too about this next week.ok 3 things
:1) I did this at daycare, too- I had a bald spot & yes I did just eventually stop on my own somehow w/o intervention, but my mom tells me that she thinks it’s because I wasn’t happy at that daycare & she, in retrospect, feels she should have taken me out of there…granted, this is MY mom not you
& she’s one to obsess about things from the past (that me & my siblings are already WAY ‘over’ ie: non-issues for us) & appologize…2) the next thing that comes to mind is OCD – or some sort of ‘tic’ type ‘compulsion’ where she just can’t help herself…getting her to replace the behavior w/ something else is ideal, but I have no idea how you do this w/ someone so young…there’s a mom here who posted in the near recent past that her child is OCD and he’s young…
3) it’s nothing and this too shall pass…
Thanks guys. I think that we have enough on our plate without worrying too much about it, so we’ll see if it will go away on it’s on. In the meantime, I found a doll in the house that has yarn hair, maybe I can get her to yank the doll’s hair instead.
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