My babies hair

No, that is your baby. If you don’t want to, don’t do it. Culture or not.

It's your baby , your decision, and speak to your partner about this.

Agree with the first two ladies. Don’t try to meet his family’s expectations, they are irrelevant. You have created your own family and that matters more than there traditions.

i’m Chinese Thai. All my nephews shaved their hair at one point during their first year. I don’t want to do that for my baby. I saw my friend just trimmed a little bit on their baby for the culture purpose but didn’t shave the whole head. I know it is a culture but he is still your baby and you are not from their culture. There should be mid way where both of you might agree.

Ufff, I had this same problem. I'm half Egyptian and half Irish. My husband is Pakistani. No cultures of mine practice shaving the head, however, my husband's culture does. It's not a religious obligation but it's their belief to cleanse the baby and to remove any evil eye. They also believe it makes the hair thicker. His entire family looked at me like this 👀 when I was clearly upset about this. I loved his newborn hair and was scared it would hurt him. I literally took like 5 shits back to back because I was upset. I was so upset at my husband for not even discussing this with me prior for me to at least have a better reaction or come to terms with it. At least yours did. His hair grew back and I said we are never shaving his hair again. I let it grow very long for as long as possible. I control what is done to his hair now and anyone else's recommendation goes in one ear and out the other.

My other half is Indian. It will and has been always up to me, mom, whether or not the head was shaved down for cultural reason / ritual. I chose not to and won’t. It’s your baby too and what you want matters! You have culture too- even if it means doin nothing to the hair.

My mother's culture have a similar thing when babies turns one, but yh .... not doing it 😘🥰 . Your baby your choice mama 🙌🏼🙏🏼. I will cut his hair if and when I feel like, not for some other reasons. Same goes for my hair 🤣💙🫂

And thesame goes for other things, like bottle feeding, breastfeeding, upbringing....etc do what feels right for u 💙❤️ it's your life and it will affect u directly. Don't worry about what "visitors" want or expect 😘