Thanks to my hairdresser I didn't go bald!  She is the one who noticed the bald spots on my head.  I didn't even know I had them, although I did seem to have an awful lot of hair clogging the drains everyday.  As women often do at their hairdresser's, I got involved in a deep discussion with my stylist.  This conversation was about alopecia.  At the time I didn't even know what alopecia was.  The hairdresser mentioned her sister developed alopecia as a result of a severe stressor in her life.  At the time I was going through my terrible episode of PMS, but who would think to link their PMS to their hairdresser telling them they have bald patches on their head? Certainly not me.  I was just beginning, however, to suspect my body was not in synch in a whole lot of ways.  Thinking back to how my hair suddenly seemed to fall out after my pregnancies, I began to wonder if it was all part of this hormonal craziness.  Sure enough, I soon found myself at the naturopath's office discussing androgenic alopecia.  Basically it's when your hormones are out of balance and it causes your hair to fall out!  Wow.