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At what age will I know what Baby Ts hair will be like? She is 6 months old and has soft silky straight brown hair. She is bi-racial, so I don't necessarily expect that it will stay this way. All 'new growth' has come in the same way...no curls at all.
Any ideas of whether this is her hair or if something will change down the road???
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I think it's different for every child. My daughter, who is full AA, had a soft, looser curl for the longest time, I was wondering if her hair would ever change. Then when she was about 13 months old it cot thicker, coarser, & tighter all at once. I discovered it when i was giving her a bath, when I washed it it felt really different.
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Cam is 11 months old now, and her hair has changed in the last month or so. Hers came in straight, then went into loose curls. Now, when wet, those curls are *tight*, and i can feel that her hair is getting a bit thicker. It also dries out MUCH quicker than a month ago.
Cam is 1/2 AA (Moroccan) and 1/4 CC & 1/4 Hispanic. My friend is is CC & Hispanic and has hair a lot like Cam's...very thick, with tight curls.
I'd say at six months, Cam's hair was soft as a kitten's, with a tiny wisp of curl. :)
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Oh I agree...I am just wondering at what point I will have a clue about how her hair is going to be. I know with my own hair it was curly when I was young, fairly straight until my early 20s when it suddenly got very curly...so mine has changed throughout my life...hers might do the same!
I think all children, regardless of race, have a different hair texture when they are babies and toddlers than they will as they get older. My son had very thin, soft, wispy hair as a baby. (My partner called it "dandelion fluff".) It all fell out and came in much thicker and curlier when he was about 7 - 8 months old. And it's still changing now that he's 3. His hair is still much thicker on the top than the sides, but I doubt it will always stay that way. You just have to wait and see!
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I have noticed in the last month or so that my BR son who is 5.5 has had a significant hair change recently. After years of what I would call wavy hair that could be tamed into loose curls or straight spikes with a little product and requiring no special moisturizing, his hair is all of a sudden getting more coarse and dry and is going to require a new strategy.
I am working on a theory that hair change is tied to dental development (only half kidding)!
DD had fairly curly hair from her first bath. By about a year, it was pretty tightly coiled but not as dry as it is now. Now she has 4b hair - tons of hair and the itty-bittiest perfect circles you ever did see! My son, on the other hand, had straight hair for probably the first 6 months. I was obsessed with wondering when it would get curly! Now, at 15 months, his is also 4b - we keep it short so it doesn't even have a chance to curl, but it is the same texture as DD's and also very dry. Both are full AA.
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DD had fairly curly hair from her first bath. By about a year, it was pretty tightly coiled but not as dry as it is now. Now she has 4b hair - tons of hair and the itty-bittiest perfect circles you ever did see! My son, on the other hand, had straight hair for probably the first 6 months. I was obsessed with wondering when it would get curly! Now, at 15 months, his is also 4b - we keep it short so it doesn't even have a chance to curl, but it is the same texture as DD's and also very dry. Both are full AA.