bringing newborn into hair salon?

[Anonymous]

I just wanted to say that I think it's great that you're getting your highlights done. Some women (um, like the one writing this post right now) fall down a rabbit hole of mothering and wake one day to find their eyebrows overgrown and other natural disasters.

[Anonymous]

I think it depends on the salon and stylist as well as your baby. My stylist did not mind and I always brought the baby in at a time when the salon was not busy (i.e., a Tuesday morning). The maximum time it takes my colorist to do my hair is a little over a hour. Usually, my baby slept the whole time in her car seat with its cover. I wasn't concerned about fumes , because the few people in the salon at the times I went were getting hair cuts. On the other hand, I would not bring a baby or child to a crowded salon like ILO or Salon Jean Paul.

I once brought my baby to the dentist's office while I got a crown. Again, no one knew my baby was there and my dentist did not mind. She said she had moms nursing their babies while having a check-up. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable doing that.

Use your judgment and talk to your stylist.

[Anonymous]

18:04 must go to some really low rent places, I have never seen anyone with a baby strapped to
them in any kind of a salon.

[Anonymous]

I thought about it myself and decided no. Little hairs fly everywhere and I didn't want them all over my kid.

[Anonymous]

I've seen signs at salons disallowing having children in the work areas (i.e. not the waiting areas). It's a liability to have little kids around when there are incredibly toxic chemicals being mixed up and transported. What if someone tripped on your baby's bucket seat on the floor while carrying the tray full of dye? Yikes.

[Anonymous]

No way. If for no other reason (and I can see several others), there are too many toxic things about. Hair dye, hair spray, nail polish, etc. Get a sitter and enjoy.

[Anonymous]

I have to confess - that was me at Bang earlier this week. I was just getting a cut so I was in and out. It was snowing, and my mom could not come to watch the baby. (Plan was to leave her at starbucks - but now after reading all these posts, would there have been too many loud noises there from coffee being ground ?????)

[Anonymous]

Sometimes the sitter doesn't work out. So you have to do what you have to do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I even have my nails done with baby in the ergo.
go first thing in the morning so the place won't stink.

Wow. I hope your baby grows up able to balance a checkbook. Those fumes are intense.

Plus, it's super-assy to bring a baby to a place where other women go to take a break from their kids (like the nail salon).

I think the fumes messed up the brains of you both.

As I already said, I go first thing in the morning so there's nobody there and the place doesn't stink. The ladies that do my nails know me so they act quick. While one does the feet the other one does one hand at a time so I can have one hand free in case baby wakes up.

When I have my hair done I make sure DC is well fed and asleep. Doing it first thing in the morning, again, to make sure we're the only people at the salon. I never had a problem with it.

Mother of the Year 2010.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't do it, for many reasons:

1. The fumes--yuck. There's a reason why you're supposed to stay away from this stuff during pregnancy. Maybe at 6 months or more I might feel differently but a 3.5-wk old is just so tiny.

2. I actually wouldn't take a baby that young to any enclosed place with other people, especially during flu season, unless I absolutely had to (e.g. dr's office). Hair does not fall into that category for me.

3. It's inconsiderate to other customers and unlike PP I believe in treating others the way I'd want to be treated.

4. Hair coloring takes a while. If the baby needs your attention in the middle of it, is the stylist supposed to just wait? Even if it delays her next appointment? See # 3.