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Strawberry birthmark - anyone had it stay flat?

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POSTC123 · 10/03/2025 11:41

I have a 2 week old. A strawberry mark has appeared the last couple of days on the back of her thigh. Or what I suspect is one anyway.

On googling it’s all quite frightening! Giant growths which look quite fragile and can apparently bleed profusely. Something which is apparently benign and does resolve but worried about the location and what this will mean for the next year or more potentially.

Anyone have one that just stayed flat and red birthmark like. It’s apparently 10% of children so suprised haven’t heard more about this and assume google is showing worst or the worst.

Anyone not had a rapidly growing mass please give me hope 🥹

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RainingRoses · 10/03/2025 11:48

DS has one. He was very red when he was born apart from this tiny patch on his chest. Surprisingly midwives had no idea what it was but I spotted a tiny red dot a few days later so after googling I realised it’s going to develop into a strawberry birthmark.

It grew into the size of a 10p coin and was maybe just a couple of mm thick. He’s now 16 months and it’s gone flat with half of the redness gone.

Naturally I was just as worried that it would be huge and difficult to manage if it kept bleeding but fortunately we had no issues. Because of where it was it was difficult for him to accidentally scratch it but I would get worried during bath time or whenever I changed him. But it didn’t get too big or too thick, and doctors were never concerned either whenever they spotted it.

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