An Ultrasound That Took Everyone by Surprise
The image on the monitor was clear as day: wispy strands floating gently in the amniotic fluid, swaying like seaweed in the ocean.
“I thought I was seeing things,” Emily recalled. “But then the sonographer pointed it out and said, ‘She already has hair—and quite a lot of it.’ I couldn’t believe it.”
By this stage of pregnancy, hair follicles do begin forming on a baby’s scalp—but what the doctors saw in Emily’s scan was far beyond what’s typical.
“It wasn’t just peach fuzz,” one nurse commented later. “It looked like this baby already had her first hair appointment!”
A Little Girl with a Lot of Hair
Two months later, baby Ivy made her grand entrance into the world—and she didn’t disappoint.
“She came out with a full head of thick, dark hair,” Emily said. “It was longer than most toddlers I’ve seen!”
The nurses gasped when they saw her. Her hair wasn’t just thick—it was full, flowing, and absolutely beautiful.
“We all just stood there for a minute,” one delivery nurse shared. “You don’t forget a baby like that.”
Emily laughed remembering it. “I barely even got a look at her face at first because I was staring at all the hair.”
The doctors reassured Emily that while babies are commonly born with hair, Ivy’s luscious locks were a rare sight.
“Hair typically starts growing around 30 weeks in the womb,” one of the medical staff explained. “But to be this visible in a 20-week scan, and then to be this thick at birth—it’s certainly uncommon.”
