{"id":442,"date":"2007-02-22T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=442"},"modified":"2007-02-22T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T19:53:00","slug":"thanks-for-the-hair-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for the hair, Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I write about medical research for\u00c2\u00a0a living,\u00c2\u00a0so I&#8217;ve come across my fair share of unusual studies and findings. I have to admit being pretty surprised, though, when I read this morning about a Johns Hopkins study looking at the connection between a mom&#8217;s heartburn and her baby&#8217;s hair. The resesarchers set out to disprove the old wives&#8217; tale (which I had never heard of) that women who experience heartburn during pregnancy will have babies with full heads of hair &#8211; yet the findings actually backed up the old adage. (Out of 28 women who reported moderate to severe heartburn, 23 had babies with average or above-average amounts of hair; out of 12 women who reported no heartburn, only two had babies with lots of hair.) The link &#8211; which has something to do with the hormones that cause heartburn &#8211; seems pretty bizarre to me, but\u00c2\u00a0I\u00c2\u00a0guess it could be valid. After all, I had fairly bad heartburn during the last trimester &#8211; and Zoe\u00c2\u00a0now has a nice big\u00c2\u00a0head of hair (as shown in this pic from earlier today).<\/p>\n<p>Zoe, I think you owe me one!!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image441\" alt=\"lots-of-hair.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/lots-of-hair.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write about medical research for\u00c2\u00a0a living,\u00c2\u00a0so I&#8217;ve come across my fair share of unusual studies and findings. I have to admit being pretty surprised, though, when I read this morning about a Johns Hopkins study looking at the connection between a mom&#8217;s heartburn and her baby&#8217;s hair. The resesarchers set out to disprove the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-to-3-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}