What is Lanugo hair and how are you planning to Cope up with it?

If you could glance on to your uterus this is something that you might have not even expected in the wildest of your dreams. The unborn baby is covered with brown fluffy hair.

The reasons for the baby becoming fuzzy?

The process of labor tends to emerge at around 14 to 16 weeks of pregnancy. Once you touch 21 weeks, the entire body of the baby is covered with hair. The lips, feet and the soles are the only bare spots where hair is not found.  This is also referred to as monkey hair and for a lot of parents it is still a mystery on what is lanugo and what happens to it during pregnancy. Now what makes your baby more fussy?

During pregnancy the baby is known to float in an amniotic sac. For example if you have watched the toes and feet wrinkled after bath, what is going to strike you is why is the skin of the baby by constant immersion in liquid is not damaged. The reason of it is that being covered by a substance known as vertex where a cheesy coating is provided over the skin. Just imagine a situation where your body is covered with petroleum jelly and a coating of cheese, so how it is going to feel. What is lanugo hair does provide something for the cervix to cling to, so that the coating remains on the skin of the baby and protection is provided.

Lanugo could work its magic as a form of insulation. The skin of your baby is pretty during pregnancy as one of the last things to develop is body fat. The warmth of the body keeps the snug. With the help of lanugo the body temperature of your fetus is regulated. When you do come across situations of severe malnutrition, adults are also prone to lanugo, as without the aid of fat the body is trying to work towards warmth.

You are never going to come across a person in lanugo. The fine hair that is present is going to fade itself in the last few months of pregnancy. The baby could swallow it in the womb or it could turn into meconium which is the first sickly black poop of your baby as soon as they are born.

The baby is born and still there is lanugo

If it is a premature baby or if the delivery has happened a few days before the due date then the baby is going to have a fair coating of lanugo. In certain situations, babies who are born full term still have some remaining monkey hair on them.

When a baby is born with lanugo it does not pose any significant danger to the baby or anyone who is in direct contact with the baby as well. In some cultures there are traditional remedies to get rid of lanugo shed but it is deemed unnecessary in doing something with the hair of your baby.