Health

7 Foods You Never Knew Supported Hair Growth

Collaborative Post¦ Feeling like your hair growth has slowed down recently? Seeing more hair shedding in the shower? There are a few reasons why this might happen. For some, hair loss or growth cycle disruption might be due to hormonal changes, hereditary conditions, or nutritional deficiencies. If it happens to be the latter, there are a few foods you’ll want to add to your diet to help get things moving again. 

And we’re not just talking about packing in some Popeye spinach. (Although that is great for hair growth too.) There are a few things that support hair growth that might surprise you. If you want to enhance your hair growth and hair health, consider adding these foods into your weekly meal rotation. 

Let’s get into 7 great foods that you never knew supported hair growth. 

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Celebrating 6 months of breastfeeding Reuben

Hooray, it’s World Breastfeeding Week! I thought this was the perfect opportunity to share some photos from the milk bath I did with Reuben a few weeks ago. In breastfeeding circles, it has become quite popular to give your baby a milk bath to celebrate 6 months of breastfeeding. It’s a cute trend, so I wanted us to join in on the fun! Of course, you don’t need to be breastfeeding to join in – you can just use a different kind of milk.

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Caught in the wave of bronchiolitis

TW: Hospitalisation of baby, mention of anxiety¦ Well, this is a first. I’m beginning to write this post from a hospital bed. Thankfully, I’m writing in the knowledge that everything seems to be fine now. Bronchiolitis is really common in babies in the autumn and winter. However, the nurses here have told me that thanks to lockdown last winter, the usual wave of cases coming in didn’t really happen. I actually read a news article last week saying that due to a combination of that and people now mingling, lots of babies are now catching respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the virus responsible for it and hospitalisations are rising. According to Public Health England, over 60% of children have been infected with it by their first birthday. This rises to over 80% by 2 years of age. For most, it is a mild illness but some require hospitalisation. Unfortunately for us, Reuben was one of them.

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