Dear Yanet,

Before this Mom goes with the hormonal treatments, make sure that this is not
a normal thing.  Forgive me if I am repeating what you already know:

We usually lose about 50 or 60 hairs per day when we are not pregnant.  When
a woman is pregnant, the loss STOPS.  There is a growth phase for the
follicle of about three years.  Then the follicle rests and finally goes
dormant.  It is during dormancy that the hair comes out.  During pregnancy,
the hair does not go into the dormant stage.  Then, after baby is born
(usually sometime between 3 and 5 months), all of that hair that would've
gone dormant does it ALL AT ONCE.  (I have read that one can lose 200 hairs
per day).  This may continue for two to six months, and most of it grows
back.
     The timetable that you mentioned coincides with what is happening with
this Mom.  Breastfeeding does not make it any worse.  If this is what she is
going through, she does not have to wean to avoid going bald!!!!  I myself
had this happen with two of my four children (numbers 2 and 3), and one time
I counted, I lost 150 strands.
     Other things the mom could examine are her diet and her thyroid level.
 But my first guess would be the normal dormancy thing.

Constancia