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Published 15:52 29 Jun 2020 GMT
A mother has recalled her shock after realizing her baby girl already had thick hair while still in the womb, after it was clearly visible during a scan 34 weeks into her pregnancy.
Alexandra, who hails from Dublin, Ireland described her shock in a recent interview;
“We’d already found out we were expecting a girl at the previous scan, so at 34 weeks, we were just excited to see how much she’d grown.”
“When the midwife turned the screen around, I honestly couldn’t believe my eyes.
“There was this tiny little baby on the scan with a full head of hair. I just thought, ‘No way, this cannot be possible’.
“To be completely honest, I thought all babies were born bald. My oldest Kadin came out bald, so I just thought that was how babies were when they were born.
“But once I’d taken in how much hair she had, it made me all the more excited to meet her, as Maya already looked like a proper little person.”
Six weeks later, baby Maya was born The Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital, in Dublin, weighing 8lbs 9oz and sporting a wonderful full head of dark hair.
“As soon as Maya arrived, I couldn’t take my eyes off her hair. I’d been expecting her to have hair because of the scan, but to see this beautiful baby with this thick jet black hair was incredible,” Alexandra said, “It had already grown so long it was down past her ears.
Even the nurses and the doctors turned to me and said they’d never seen a baby with so much hair in all the time they’d worked at the hospital!”
And Maya received many compliments thereafter on her locks, “We couldn’t leave the house without someone complimenting Maya on her hair," Alexandra revealed, "Lots of people would ask, ‘How old is she?’ They were shocked when I told them she was only three months old with so much hair!"
With Maya now aged one, her hair is so long it reportedly reaches the top of her nappy, and her mother Alexandra has no plans to cut her hair, "“I’ve never had her hair cut. I think it’s absolutely beautiful and I want her to grow it as long as she wants,” she said.
And having such long hair has meant that Maya and her mother Alexandra have already been able to play around with different hairstyles. “Maya’s really good she always sits still and lets me do her hair,” Alexandra revealed, “I do it in plaits and sometimes I tie it in a ponytail.
“I love putting bow clips in her hair. I have different colours, like pink, blue, red and yellow, to match the different outfits that she wears.”
