He has blond or brunette?

That's your baby was born.  
You are fondly looking at this baby. The shape of his nose to a tee as the Pope, her mouth as her mother, left ear, perhaps, as my grandmother, but her hair ... Hairs on top of thin, almost transparent and it was too "lonely". In general, it is impossible to disassemble, blond or brunet your child. Or maybe he does red?

Hair - filamentous keratinized skin appendages. They consist of a rod protruding above the skin and roots immersed in it to the level of subcutaneous fat.
In the roots are the hair follicles. They contain the matrix to ensure the growth of hair and melanocytes, in which the pigment accumulates. On its quantity and it depends, to be your child's blond or brunette burning. However, the pigment content in the first months of wavering, and so bright child in six months may well turn dark or vice versa.
Follicles are placed in the skin still the sixth month of intrauterine life baby and a child can acquire some hair before birth. But it's all individually - the hair may not be. Newborn hair is very soft and fragile. After 6-8 weeks, they may fall. Do not worry - it's in physiology. Soon the top will have new hair. Who is to blame and what to do
But what if the hair is in no hurry to appear, as he appeared, grow very poorly?
Reasons for this may be a few. First, mothers should think, good food gets a toddler. Nutrition plays almost the main role, because with him the child receives proteins, vitamins and minerals (calcium, magnesium, zinc) needed for hair growth.
You are breast-feeding your baby? Hence, the basis of its diet is breast milk, and its composition depends on the diet of the mother. What is a nutritious breakfast, lunch, dinner Momma, the better the milk, which will get the kid. The role of vitamins 

To form the normal structure of the hair in the first place requires vitamins A, B, PP and C. Consequently, lactating women should increase consumption of liver, butter, carrots, eggs, parsley, green apples, buckwheat, red and green peppers. Pay attention to the composition of the mixture that you give your baby. If there is not enough these components, it may be wise to change it to a more fortified. 

The value of calcium Please note the following: if the child was 8 months, but he still no tooth, and the fontanel is greater than normal at this age, it is likely the main cause of poor hair growth - lack of calcium. If the mother continues to breast-feed the baby, then she needs to eat more cheese and milk, to take special medications with calcium. A child at this age need to finish feeding special children's curds and milk, egg yolks, vegetable puree, containing cabbage, red pepper, parsley, and fish sauce. In fish a lot of phosphorus, needed for calcium absorption. Pediatricians recommend to the seven months required to give their children fish dishes. Or maybe it is rickets?
The problem of poor hair growth may be associated with lack of vitamin D. Vitamin D itself directly on the hair is not affected, but the lack of it in the body has an indirect effect on them.
Vitamin D deficiency leads to rickets, a disease characterized by a violation of the mechanism of absorption of calcium and phosphorus in the intestine, causing retardation of oxidation processes, the acid-base shift in the blood and other undesirable changes in the functions of several organs and systems.
The emerging metabolic disorder primarily affects the state of the bones and nervous system. The child becomes restless, more crying, trembling, sweating heavily during sleep. Tossing and turning restlessly on the pillow, it erases the hair on his head, causing it formed part of baldness. When heavy sweating wet become not only the skin but also hair. It is harmful to delicate baby hair, so you should wash the baby's head one day children's soap or a neutral pH shampoo.
For the treatment and prevention of this disease pediatrician prescribe vitamin D. And the mothers should be aware that hinder the development of rickets can just walk in the sun.
Pigment content in the first months of wavering, and so bright child in six months may well turn dark or vice versa. And another reason ...
The reason for poor growth of hair can also be a nervous factor. It is noticed that the noisy, restless children who sleep badly, the hair is growing worse. Ask for advice from pediatric neurology, how to make your baby more relaxed. If you resolve this issue, the problem of hair growth will take of itself. And finally, the last reason of which is already not going anywhere - it's heredity. If your ancestors had never been a rich head of hair and a thick braid to her waist, then what you want from a kid? Let it grow the way it is. The main thing that he was healthy and happy. Cut or not to cut?
Debate about whether we should cut bald kid, go so far. Are the hairs on it thicker and better to grow? Pediatricians are inclined to believe that such a cut does not give any effect, but on the contrary, after such a "shaved" in children with weak hair long, they do not give the new growth. Grandma's recipes 

My girlfriend Svetlana complained to me that her little daughter do not grow hair. Like, and the baby was healthy and a balanced diet, and what only shampoos or washing, but hair is my daughter were still rare and short. For the summer girlfriend with a child decided to leave the village to the grandmother. Svetlana met in early September, I saw that her daughter not only grew up and put on weight. Girly hair became noticeably thicker and longer. - There you are, and you worried that your hair do not grow. Soon, she'll spit plait! - I said. - And thanks to my grandmother, - said Light. - She gave me tips to the hair of children grow up better. In the summer, I washed my daughter's head shampoo old village recipes. My grandmother knows so much!
I will give you some useful and grandmother tips:

    * Try to wash the baby's head with sour milk or yogurt. To do so, simply apply the yogurt on top and leave it so for 15 minutes or more. At this time you can distract the child fun with toys in the bathtub. Then everything should be washed off, rinse again head kefir and rinse thoroughly with water.
    * Give up on from time to shampoo. Wash your child's head with soap and calendula oil.
    * At night and rub into the scalp or castor oil burdock, and the morning wash your head. Do this at least once a week.
    * Strengthens hair carrot shampoo: one raw egg yolk, 20 g vegetable oil 20 g lemon juice and 4 tablespoons of carrot - mix well, beat up. This mess wash his head instead of shampoo.
     * Help the growth of hair mask from the cabbage and peach juice, honey and eggs. Teaspoon of honey mixed with one raw egg yolk, two tablespoons of peach and two spoons of cabbage juice. Mixture is applied to the head, upper tie a scarf and wrap a towel. An hour later, wash the head with soap or baby shampoo. This mask should be done once a week.