Does your kid have any birthmarks?

[Marmee]

Or any other quirks physical or otherwise? I was just thinking about this today after reading an article on reincarnation and kids.


DD4 has what I call a disappearing birthmark. It's all over one lower leg & the knee of the other. Her leg looks totally normal most of the time but when it's cold (I'm not sure this always triggers it) but its like when her blood vessels constrict it looks like she's got a big burn scar. It's been like this from birth & it's hard to even show people it because its not always there. The home nurse & Pediatrican have observed it but neither knew what it was. Both were stumped & just commented that it looked like a burn scar.

DD1 had vascular birthmarks, hemangiomas. One disappeared & the other is way faded now.

DD2 has nothing physically but she has tics that involve her upper body where she tenses up and makes a face w/ some noise.

DD3 has the weirdest cowlicks that go pretty much the entire length of her scalp, from forehead to neck. Her hair is just unfortunate...lol.

I was born with a flat ear that just popped at a few weeks old. I also have a birthmark on my ankle.

I find quirks fascinating

[Deleted]

DS just has an unfortunately shaped head. He had a bump where my cervix pummelled him for about an hour, and it calcified rather than healed. He's going to be sad if he goes bald and shaves his head.

DD has a little dimple where one of her ears attaches to her head (at the top, not the bottom). Like it missed a stitch.

I was born with a club foot, so it's a couple sizes smaller than the other and I have a scar that runs all the way up my foot around my ankle where I had surgery at a few months old.

None of us have any birthmarks. DH is a mole leopard, though, so we'll see if those show up later.

[countthestars]

DD has two hemangiomas, one small one on her head and a bigger one on her belly. Belly pic attached.

[cincodemayo]

My DS was sitting sideways inside me with his face pressed against my pelvic bone since about 32 weeks pregnant.

He came out with angel kisses/stork bites in between his eyes, above his ear, in his nostril, over his eyelid, and above his lip. They fade and then reappear when he's mad or cold.

ETA: I have an angel kiss on my arm that has never went away. It's a perfect circle between my elbow and shoulder. I've always liked it.

[cilantro]

He's got a little one on the upper side part of his left butt cheek. It's adorable!

[savan]

DS has a hemangioma on his knee. It looked like a bruise when he was a baby but now looks like the picture above. He's almost 7 and it's actually gotten a little bigger over the years so I suspect he will have it forever.

[gardengal]

Both my boys have stock bites on their left eye & back of their neck.

The baby has some serious cowlicks. It's going to be interesting when he has more hair!

[Velar Fricative]

Learn something new every day - I never heard of stork bites before this thread and I think that's what the red mark on DD's left eyelid is. I know she had it at birth and it was darker. Even though it faded, it's still there so I just figured it'll eventually disappear. If not, oh well.

[Marmee]

Dec 13, 2013 11:13:27 GMT -5 countthestars said:

DD has two hemangiomas, one small one on her head and a bigger one on her belly. Belly pic attached.

Ok, that is freaky! DD1s was EXACTLY like that, same place, same size! Where is the one on her head. The one on my DD1s head was between her eyes & was pretty tiny & did disappear completely. The tummy has still a mark but its pretty much skin color now.

[ladygrey]

DD has a faint stork bite between her eyes.

[countthestars]

Dec 13, 2013 11:31:15 GMT -5 Marmee said:

Dec 13, 2013 11:13:27 GMT -5 countthestars said:

DD has two hemangiomas, one small one on her head and a bigger one on her belly. Belly pic attached.

Ok, that is freaky! DD1s was EXACTLY like that, same place, same size! Where is the one on her head. The one on my DD1s head was between her eyes & was pretty tiny & did disappear completely. The tummy has still a mark but its pretty much skin color now.

Crazy!  It's right on the top of her head, hidden in her hair.  It's about the size of a pencil eraser.

[blueberry10]

DD has a little spot on her tummy that's lighter in color than the rest of her skin.

[iheartbanjos]

DD1 has a stork bite on the back of her neck, a cyst on her eyebrow, and a cowlick front and center in her head.

DD2 has a flat head so far, she had angel kisses on her eyelids, a stork bite on the back of her neck, and she holds her arms twisted.

My kids are beautiful, I swear

[undecidedowl]

When DS was born it looked like he had an old faint scar perpendicular to the hairline on his forehead. The hair to one side of it is a cowlick. As he has grown the line is even harder to see but the cowlick is still there.

Also, when DS was born, at first the nurses thought he had a birthmark on his finger. But then they realized it was actually a blood blister from him sucking his finger during labor.

[Willis Jackson]

DS has a stork bite in the shape of his first initial on his forehead. He's monogrammed.

[hski2349]

DD has a Mongolian spot on her tail bond. She also has a big mark on the top of her head. I forget what kind it is. We had to go to a pediatric dermatologist when DD was about 8 weeks old to have it checked. Luckily, it is nothing serious. You cannot even see it now because her dark hair covers it.

[7costanza]

Dec 13, 2013 11:36:14 GMT -5 tulips said:

X and I both have Darwin's ear points.

I have a birth mark on my left leg that I call the coffee stain. It looks like someone spilled coffee and it pooled on my leg. We haven't noticed any birth marks on X yet.

What is a Darwin's ear point?

DS has a indentation on his forehead from the forceps, and a very faint stork bite on his right eyelid. He also had a tiny dimple in front of his left ear, which I think is the cutest thing ever!

[carolinagirl831]

DD has an angel kiss between her eyes and on the back of her neck.
The one between her eyes is almost gone. The one on her neck gets bright red if she is upset.

[halfpint]

B has a little blue spot on the bridge of his nose. Not sure if it's just a vein showing through?

I have a cafe au lait spot on the inside of my elbow.

I don't think H has any birthmarks.

[geneg]

Both kiddos had stork bites / angel kisses (DD's was a big V on her forehead - looked like antenna!). They are long faded. DD also has a small cafe au lait spot behind one knee.

[minzy]

DD1 had Mongolian spots on her rear end at birth.  They have faded a bit, but sometimes we still joke, "get your blue butt over here!"

[ryry]

I just had to fill out a form that asked for 'identifying marks' on DD1 and I couldn't come up with anything! She has a sacral dimple but that seemed to be TMI for a preschool form (but apparently not for the internet...lol).

DD2 has a small red mark on one of her eyelids, but I think it'll fade as she gets older.

[Deleted]

I had a sideways tear drop-shaped hemangioma under my left eye that grew to be about the size of half a strawberry by the time I was ~18 months.

DH was horrified at my baby pictures the first time he saw them, it was that big.

It went away by the time I was 8, so all of the moms of babies with hemangiomas they may go away

[rex]

She has a little red dot right by her right nostril. And I think a stork bite on the back of her head.

And her hair is nuts! It sticks straight up. I love it.

[Brie]

Nothing really.

He does have a super deep sacral dimple--we had to have an ultrasound of it when he was an infant to make sure it wasn't a tethered cord or anything, but nope. It's just a butt dimple.

ETA: He was born with a horrible vag-shaped bruise on his head.  I'm glad that went away.  The nurses kept insisting on keeping a hat on him and I was confused until I saw it.  Woof.

[countthestars]

Oh! T has a sacral dimple too! But it doesn't look like the ones when you google image it (((shudder)))

[jerzgirl25]

G has a sacral dimple too! I had no idea how common it is. tmi; my husband has it, too.
Other than that, he has 2 dimples in his cheeks, and one in his chin.
At birth, his head was super cone shaped, but it looks a lot better now!

[Deleted]

DD2 has stork bites on both eyelids, her forehead, and the back of her neck. DD1 has a mole on her leg.

[greycat]

Dec 13, 2013 11:36:14 GMT -5 tulips said:

X and I both have Darwin's ear points.

I have a birth mark on my left leg that I call the coffee stain. It looks like someone spilled coffee and it pooled on my leg. We haven't noticed any birth marks on X yet.

I never had heard of a Darwin's ear points before - both MH & I have that. Weird!!!

[dbsk8dance]

DS was born with a huge bump in his head made of extra calcium. His body re absorbed it and it was gone by 6 months.

Dd has a birthmark on her knee. DH has the same one.

My thumbs don't match. One looks like it got chopped. It is just short.