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A few days ago, my sister posted a photo in the family group and couldn't suppress her excitement, saying: It's so amazing. I went to the hospital to see my best friend's newborn baby. The little guy actually had a heart-shaped birthmark on the back of his hand!
The parents of the child are both married in the second marriage. They have gone through many hardships and finally got together to form this small family. There are also various small troubles in the pregnancy preparation stage. Fortunately, they finally got pregnant smoothly. Therefore, it is conceivable how much the couple cherish this child.
A baby has a heart-shaped birthmark on the back of his hand as soon as he is born, and even the doctor and nurse say he has never seen it before. The relatives and friends who came to visit were even more surprised and said, "It's so loving" and "It's so auspicious", but it moved the couple very much.
In fact, the birthmark on the back of the baby's hands is called "Mongolian spots", and many babies have had it when they were born.
Q01: What is "Mongolian Spot"?
Mongolian spots are very common in Asian babies. More than 80% of newborns may appear, usually in the buttocks, sacral and coccyx, back, etc., and other parts of the body, such as the limbs and even the face.
Mongolian spots are actually very simple to judge. The appearance of generally has the following characteristics:
(1) looks particularly bruised at first glance, with a light cyan, blue, gray cyan or blue-black color;
(2) 's boundary is irregular, generally round, oval or irregular shape;
(3) The area difference between is large and small;
(4) 's surface is very smooth, and compared with the surrounding skin, there is no other abnormality except inconsistent color.
"Mongolian plaque" is actually a kind of congenital dermal melanocytosis, the most common congenital birthmark in neonates . An interesting phenomenon is that Mongolian spots are more common among orientals, especially among Mongolians, and are therefore named.
Q02: Do Mongolian spots need treatment?
Although Mongolian spots look scary, if they are large in size, they seem to have been beaten, but as the baby continues to grow, the Mongolian spots will slowly fade until they disappear, and the skin gradually returns to normal color.
The baby has Mongolian spots, and will not have any impact on the body and does not require any treatment. The Mongolian spots on most children will gradually disappear naturally when they are about four or five years old.
Some special areas of special Mongolian spots may continue until adulthood. If they have affected their beauty, you can consider laser treatment.
Qiao Ma said:
Qiao Niu was born, there was also a Mongolian spot as big as a coin on the ankle of her left foot. It looked quite obvious at that time, but it slowly disappeared when she was over one year old.
Many babies have a large "bruise" on their buttocks when they are just born, and the old people's explanations sound quite mysterious. They said that this was when the child was reincarnated and angered the King of Hell, and he was punished, so after birth, his buttocks and back would be kicked with bruises...
Some babies did not have obvious bruises on their buttocks, but almost most babies had a small obvious blue birthmark on their tailbones.
About the legend of "Mongolian Spot", I personally prefer this statement from Western countries: every baby was once a little angel around God, and they all had a small tail. When the babies found the mother of the world, they wanted to escape from God. God was reluctant to let them go, so they pulled their tails desperately. In fact, the babies who could come to the world safely were actually pulled off by God and finally got together with their mothers.
So, after the baby was born, a small piece of bruise left on his butt.
In addition to Mongolian spots, newborns may also have salmon colored spots (also called stork kiss marks), bright red spots, strawberry-like hemangioma, coffee milk spots, and other common birthmarks. In most cases, these birthmarks of will slowly disappear as the baby grows older, so even if the baby brings a birthmark that affects the appearance, novices don’t need to worry too much, just wait patiently.
10Qiaoma: National senior nanny, parenting writer, an older mother born in the 1980s who talks about science, loves to be serious and willing to share.
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