I HATE THAT MYTH OF SHAVING A BABY'S HAIR FOR THE FIRST TIME

My baby with a shaved hair

It has always been a thing of concern to my husband and I on why we should shave our baby's hair for the first time the annoying part of it is not to cut or trim the hair but to shave everything off... little by little I became pensive on how I should go about it, my husband and I never liked the idea at all...hubby has always love hair when is longer he admire it alot he always want to touch it and comment on how nice it is. He never like weave hairs or short hair when it comes to a lady most especially his wife and daughters he prefer to see it long lolz... is very funny because Africans mostly don't have long hair just very few people are blessed with such long hair, mine isn't really long but a bit better...in Nigeria precisely it is mostly seen as a myth that women tend to lose some of their hairs when they give birth, of a truth it happened to me after I birthed my daughter I notice my hair tend to cut more than prior...I never really care because it will grow back again but recently I have been pondering on that myth of losing some of my hair but why? I asked my mom she said it's normal, of a truth I never believed in it till it happened to me.

My baby with her hair

I kept mumbling why on earth should I shave my baby's hair for the first time after I birthed her. It is like a tradition practically everybody follows it in Nigeria, in the northern side of Nigerian the hausa's shaves their babies hair after one week of delivery, I wanted doing thesame thing I thought it is much better than shaving her hair when she is one year old since that's our tradition the southeast (igbos)... Oh No I couldn't stand to see my baby's hair been shaved I pleaded with my mom if there is a way to avert this but she said no and I asked her what if I refuse to do so, she said is not good I was curious so I asked other persons they said thesame thing some even inflate fear on me if I don't and I asked what are the negative side effect of it when one doesn't shave the hair for the first time? No relevant answers were given...it is with much difficulty hubby and I agreed to shave our baby's hair but we were reluctant about it we kept procrastinating it. Anytime I brought the issue of shaving our baby's hair to my husband he waves it aside, to me is much more better to shave her hair now that she's a baby than waiting till she is one year old by then the hair might have grown longer but hubby never get enough of seeing the hair he kept saying I should wait more...I waited patiently till I got his approval to do it, but I thought how exactly am I going to do that? Considering the fact I don't want to take her to a barbing saloon or make use of those public clippers she's just a baby moreover is just one time shave I just have to becareful because of transmitted diseases and hubby is not with us he stays in the west (Lagos) while I stay in the north schooling with our baby, oh I wished hubby is close I would have use his clipper and I couldn't wait till one year to cut the hair I thought of doing it now that my baby's hair is still little... Fortunately for me I came up with an idea to use my baby's scissors and with that I was able to cut the hair and give her a clean shave even though I was pained while shaving her hair.