Heartburn, Newborns, and Bad Hair Days

I just read in the August 2007 Parenting magazine that researchers at Johns Hopkins University set out to disprove the myth that mothers who have heartburn during their pregnancy had babies with more hair at birth.

And what did they find, you ask? Well, they discovered that 82% of the women with "moderate to severe heartburn delivered hairy babies; most women with little or no heartburn ended up with baldies."

Supposedly the hormones causing the heartburn also trigger hair growth in the fetus. That is just weird--I always thought that was an old wive's tale. So the old wives have been proven right yet again!


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OK, now let's talk about bad hair days. I shampooed last night and went to bed with wet hair. I kind of scrunched it around a bit with some styling gel this morning, thinking that I could get away with a tousled, casual look. No such luck.

We almost made it to school this morning before my daughter, seated behind me and to my right in the middle row of the mini-van, asks loudly, "MOM--DID YOU EVEN COMB YOUR HAIR TODAY?"

So Meg Ryan got away with it in the 80's but I guess the days of tousled, bed-head looking hair are over. At least for Brainy Mom. (And yes, I did remind her of those wonderful, thought-provoking words from our stinky little friend Flower in Bambi, "If you can't say something nice. . .don't say anything at all." Or at least I tried to sputter something to that effect.)

And that brings me to Brainy Mom's Style Tip of the Day: Go ahead and take the extra 5 or even 10 minutes necessary to make your hair look decent before you go out in public. Not only will you feel better about about yourself, but you are less likely to be humbled by a comment from a loved one in front of all the kids in your carpool.