STORK BITE MARK- When did your child's disappear completely?

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DD is 7 years old and though hers has faded drastically, it's not always visible, I want to know when it will no longer be visible at all?

DD's is more visible when she is laughing very hard or shouting or whenever she is exerting herself so that suggests to me it's to do with circulation maybe?

I'm sure this is a personal thing and all children with them will have different experiences but is there an average age for them to be gone completely? I was told when she was born it would completely gone by the time she was two.

whats a stork mark? is it a little red mark? if so my dd has one on her neck at the front and its never faded, she is 2.6.

obv. doesnt bother her now but I imagine it will when she gets to her teens

Yep, a red mark either at the back of the neck or in my DD's case on her forehead. It's sort of a three pronged fork shape(rather worryingly!).

Traditionally called a stork bite mark because it's supposed be from where the stork brought the baby. I don't know what the official or medical name is.

My dd has one too on her forehead. I was told it would be gone by 2 but it hasnt and she is now 6. Depressingly it sounds as if it wont go.

frogetyfrog perhaps the HV(or whoever) just tells us that to make us feel better?

Much better to have it on the back of the neck.

Looks like a fringe forever more.

Friends daughter has one on her forehead which appears when she is tired or has been running around. She is 10.

As you say - fringe forever I reckon. Shame.

My DS has one of these on the back of his neck, the Dr in the postnatal ward told us it would fade but would always be there

DS had two - small one at the base of his spine and much bigger one just under hairline on neck. He's 22mo - the bottom one has gone but the neck one is is still there albeit a bit faded.

My ds2 and ds3 both have this. Ds2 is nearly 5 and his has faded a bit. As others have said it is more noticeable when laughing/crying/exercising etc. Dh plucked up the courage to talk to a colleague about it as he noticed that he had nearly identical marks as ds2 (a 'V' in the middle of his forehead and a patch on back of his neck around the hairline). This fella (in his 40s) was happy to talk about it and reported that his mum had said it had faded a bit during early childhood, although some of it had remained forever. And for him stress and exercise makes it show more. But he's also had conversations with others who said they'd had it as a child but not in adulthood. So who knows?

Mine has never disappeared - I am 28.
My mum still has hers.
My grandmother still had hers when she died.
Is it disfiguring? If it is, I think you can get laser treatment for it?

DH & my MIL both have one on the back of their necks that have never faded. DS has one too, so I'm not expecting it to fade either. It seems to be a weird family quirk.