Out of the four of us, three were born with lots of hair. My mom told me that when they brought my brother to her, they had parted and combed his hair. She said it was just like a grown man’s hair.
Baby pictures of my mother and grandfather also show lots of hair. My daughter had quite a bit of hair, too.
Really, bald babies look a little odd to me.
Both the Ivykids were born with full heads of hair.
And I know it’s an old wives’ tale, but yes, I had horrible heartburn all throughout both pregnancies.
My son was born with a full head of hair. Based on my wife’s side of the family, he better enjoy it while he can.
My daughter came out about two weeks late. She looked like Rosemarie’s Baby in a cute way: long hair, eyes open and blinking, long finger and toe nails.
No. Both my sons had a full head of hair when born. Everyone kept telling me that the hair would fall out and the ‘real’ hair would grow in later. Didn’t happen. They kept the hair they were born with.
You’re not thinking of lanugo are you? That’s the fine coat of hair on the skin, particularly arms/legs/back, that disappears fairly quickly.
Premature babies can be really hairy due to Lanugo.
One of my favorite baby terms, right after meconium.
ETA: well, goddammit, I swear that previous post wasn’t there a minute ago.
“What have you done to its hair?”
“He has his father’s hair!”
On a recent episode of the podcast “Sawbones” (one of the hosts is an MD), they mentioned an old wives tale that if a pregnant woman suffers from heartburn, the baby will be born with lots of hair. They also said that at least one study seems to show a possible correlation, maybe caused by pregnancy hormones.
Ditto!
A pregnant friend was just referred by her obstetrician to a study which showed a fairly clear correlation. I haven’t been able to find it though.
Gomez: “He has my father’s eyes.”
Morticia: “Gomez, take those out of his mouth.”
I have a friend who’s child was born with lots of hair. Oh, and a tooth!
Apparently that IS quite rare. But a full head of hair? Not so much.
I’d not call that rare at all. I saw it a few dozen times in my career. Statistically they occur in 1 out of every 2-3000 births, so there’s a good 2 million of them wandering around out there.
And by this, I mean natal teeth, not hair.
Natal teeth are uncommon, but far from rare.
I saw my son’s hair on an ultrasound. When we moved I saw tiny little whisps on his head. My wife thought I was crazy but sure enough he came out with a nice head of hair.
Our son was born with a full head of hair. It was so short that it stood straight up for months. (He never lost it.) We were hoping we’d notice when it was in the act of falling, but it happened when he was asleep.
Often, but not always. What’s funny is that it often comes in a different color, and sometimes grows a different color even if it doesn’t fall out! One of my goddaughters had pigtails that looked like they’d been dipped in an inkwell, because her hair at birth was black, then grew blonde!
Heh. One of the more surreal moments in the NICU with WhyBaby (born at 23 weeks) was watching the lanugo come in. She was born bare, a couple of weeks later she looked like a fuzzy albino monkey for a few days, and then it all fell out. Never occurred to me prior that of course she’d go through the same “prenatal” development there in the isolette!
Interestingly, not one of those images shows a baby with a truly bald top & back of the head.
It’s definitely been my experience (admittedly not based on an enormous sample size) that at least the vast majority of newborns have some signs of hair.
Interesting. I had no idea this was even possible. (But I would consider 1 in 2000 as qualifying as “rare.”)