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Mongolian Blue Spots

51 replies

rabbit54 · 12/01/2009 00:14

Has any one's babies got one? And if so what's the ethnicity of parents and grandparents?

Ours has one - I am English with one parent english, one parent half irish, half english. My partner is English, with both parents Jewish.

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used2bthin · 14/01/2009 21:04

My DD has got one, I am part English, part Welsh and part South African. XP is adopted but has very dark skin tone and hair and eyes, the doctor when DD was jaundiced said she looked yellow bt then looked at XP and said but no she is like you, where are you from? She was in fact jaundiced but her skintone was very much like XPs.

Ingles2 · 14/01/2009 21:15

my friends dd has a large one on her back. her parentage is British and African. She has very dark skin but the mark is really blue still and she's 10.
I think it's rather beautiful... does that sound odd?

OhYouBadBadKitten · 14/01/2009 21:15

dd always had what we thought were bruises - one on either side of her spine round the sacrum area. I still notice them a bit. For forever we thought it was just cos shes a bit boney and it was her car seat . Now you've got me wondering, perhaps shes not been permanently bruised for most of her life
I'm half english, half polish, dh is welsh.

SparkyFartDust · 14/01/2009 21:20

DD2
I'm Welsh, he's English- his G'ma was Burmese.

cory · 14/01/2009 21:23

Dd had one: I'm Swedish, dh is English, but she did have very brown skin.

CoteDAzur · 14/01/2009 21:40

Are Mongolian spots present at birth or do they appear later? Now that I think about it, DD did have several very persistent little bruises that appeared around age 2 and after a little more than a year.

(They looked like finger marks and DH & I racked our brains trying to understand who did these to her.)

no5 · 14/01/2009 22:02

Cote, i just read you are actually TirkishIm Mongolian, and i did some work on Mongolian language history in uni. That was 15 years ago. We can carry on argue about it, as so do historians. I had similar arguement when i was student in Korea with Chinese student, which turned rather nasty. I read many books by well know historians about Mongolian Empire, i truly believe Rashid al Din stirred history in his time. I shall stop here.

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CoteDAzur · 14/01/2009 22:14

You misunderstood me. I'm genuinely interested and would like to talk about it with you (especially now that you say you've studied the subject), but don't mean to "argue" and certainly not to have it "turn nasty"

Do you know about genetic (DNA) traits common to Mongolians and Turks?

And I'm interested in the abundance of same/similar words in both languages. Words in Turkish common are almost all correct. What do you think about this?

Blu · 14/01/2009 22:15

My nephew had one, so did DS.
My grandmother was from moorish gypsy romany background , which was supposed to explain my DNs spot, DS is half asian.

I thought they were a result of some african genes, rather than mongolian? Hospitals just call them 'Blue spots' now, don't they?

CoteDAzur · 14/01/2009 22:31

Were they all there at birth?

mrsleroyjethrogibbs · 15/01/2009 07:54

yup all there at birth

RoseOfTheOrient · 15/01/2009 08:04

my two had them - Dh is Japanese.
they are there at birth and then fade - no trace now (DCs 11 and 10). Although my DH still has the traces of his at the base of his spine.

cocolepew · 15/01/2009 08:16

I have a very big one. Both parents Northern Irish though we think my Dad's mum may have Spainish or Italian in her ancestry.

bogie · 15/01/2009 08:19

My friends ds has his dad is jamacian and his mum is english

candyfluff · 15/01/2009 19:49

i have 3 dc and only dd had a blue spot at birth ,it faded quickly .
im white british and dh is bengali

DisenchantedPlusBump · 15/01/2009 19:54

Ive just been bathing new DD and think she had a few big ones on ther back too!

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rabbit54 · 21/01/2009 11:23

Hi all, It has surprised and pleased me to see all the variety of ethinicities that create the birthmark. Our DS spot is about 2.5cm in diameter and in the centre of his back. It was a bluey/Black/Grey when he was born and now one year on it has faded to more of a grey. I have heard from an aunt that it is a cluster of pigment which eventually disperses across the skin. She reckoned that if I put my DS in the sun it would disperse quicker. My DS has never been fair skinned. He has my DP skin which is white with a hint of brown some might say olive skin . I forgot to say that me and DP are catergorised as white British. I find ethnicity and skin colour not always a clear catergorisation. p.s. it still shocks people - DS came out of surgery yesterday and the nurse exclaimed - did the surgeons do that?

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Geepers · 21/01/2009 11:28

two of my children have/had them.

My husband and I are both as white English as they come. As far as I know there is no other ethnicity as far back as anyone knows. Must be there somewhere though.

saramoon · 21/01/2009 18:18

Both my daughters have them just above their bottoms. They are British and African. I remember going to the doctor with my 1st and worrying about what the 'bruise' was. The doc just smiled and got out a book all about mongolian blue spots!

kezza1982 · 10/05/2010 22:58

My daughter is 6 and white british and has a indian ink type spot on her bum since she was born i have never taken her to the gp about this as health visitor said it was noyhing to worry about its grown a little in size as shes got older nothing majour tho could she have this MONGOLIAN blue spot?

Alad · 26/01/2012 03:49

They can occur if you have Hungarian ancestry as well

DeWe · 26/01/2012 09:44

One of mine had one. Can't remember which one. It started fading about at 18 months, and had faded unless you knew it was there by the time they were 3yo. They would be 1/16 Polish Jew and the rest totally caucasian!

DeWe · 26/01/2012 09:45

Old thread [sigh]

FitForLife · 26/01/2012 09:51

Dd is 11 and still has hers. We thought it wa a bruise at first but it didn't fade and the gp confirmed a blue spot.

It's about the size of a 5 p and just above where her bum cheeks start. She was worried about it showing but I said that if she was wearing something that might show it she would not be leaving the house anyway!

It hasn't really faded at all but we were told it would by puberty.