Question about Amniotic Sac

themadkayla · May 2016

Has anyone's doctor been able to feel their baby's hair (specifically, the texture [i.e. curly]) at a cervical check through the amniotic sac? I'm asking because yesterday at my appt (I'm 1 cm, 80% effaced, 37 weeks) the physician assistant said that she could feel his curly hair. Is it possible to feel this through the amniotic sac? I'm asking because I thought last week I might have had a leak in my sac, and now this is just confusing me. Any ideas?

allthingscozy · May 2016

Uh... No never ever heard of this.

ecwk · May 2016

edit - nvm

OP no I'd be worried if my doc said that

themadkayla · May 2016

So you would be worried or you would not be?

austinjl · May 2016

I actually have heard of this. A coworker of mine said she could feel her baby's head/hair and I thought it was crazy!

whataboutscience · May 2016

Sounds crazy to me, but I'm no expert.

BecauseBabyIamAPug · May 2016

Yes, because I have when I worked in L/D.

PootsDragon · May 2016

*Edit because never mind if @BecauseBabyIamAPug says it's a thing then I believe it. Never heard of it myself, but hey that's cool your LO will have adorable NB hair!

Knottie1462564267 · May 2016

DD was induced, and during a check, the midwife was all "can you feel baby bouncing? I'm bouncing the head with my fingertips".

That was weird AF, but she didn't mention hair... I wonder if it's legit?

BecauseBabyIamAPug · May 2016

PootsDragon said:

*Edit because never mind if @BecauseBabyIamAPug says it's a thing then I believe it. Never heard of it myself, but hey that's cool your LO will have adorable NB hair!

I will say that the few times I have the baby had a lot of hair. Also, none of them were white babies. A few black ones born with the cutest little afro and one Asian and one Hispanic baby. Like tons of think long hair.

Eta, also the mom were a lot more dilated then 1 cm. If my memory is right, over 5cm. Maybe?

0SeaMonkey0 · May 2016

When I was in labour I had a student midwife check my progress and say "oh I can feel his hair". My baby was born pretty much entirely bald. I don't know what she was feeling but it wasn't baby hair

Alygohome · May 2016

0SeaMonkey0 said:

When I was in labour I had a student midwife check my progress and say "oh I can feel his hair". My baby was born pretty much entirely bald. I don't know what she was feeling but it wasn't baby hair

Hilarious!

ecwk · May 2016

themadkayla said:

So you would be worried or you would not be?

Sorry I should have clarified. I'd think it weird that the doctor could tell that the hair was curly. When I was giving birth in between pushes I felt my baby's head and couldn't tell the texture even though I was literally touching it, maybe because it was wet and slicked down? I even asked the midwife to look and tell me what it looked and the best she could tell was dark-ish.
So for the doctor to be able to feel curly hair through the sac seems crazy to me and I'd look at my doctor like she'd gone mad if she said that to me. I didn't mean to say you should be worried about your baby, I'm so sorry if you thought that's what I meant. However, I'm not a doctor and if @BecauseBabyIamAPug says it, I believe it! .

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BecauseBabyIamAPug · May 2016

@ecwk I never was able to tell the texture just that there is hair. And the baby's head had to be pretty engaged to do so.
I am not sure how they felt 'curly' hair at only 1cm and only 80%.
My patients were in full blown labor.
No sometimes, I would feel the head. The scalp would be all squished up and that felt 'weird' and different.
But then again, I was the queen of accidently breaking water during cervical checks.

CecilB93 · May 2016

During cervical checks my MW mentioned that she could feel his full head of hair, but nothing about texture. I was only about 1 cm dilated the first time she was able to tell me that. So it's possible to feel hair! The curly part I'm not so sure about.

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