I was just reading the thread about mongolian blue spots and ...

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My DS has one, my 2nd son.

Me and DH are both white, all our family are white and both families have been traced back a good few years and we cannot find any ethnic family members.

I was wondering how this came about?

Its a large one on his side.

Also, this is going to sound daft, but DH sometimes jokes that DS isnt his, because of the bluespot and also because of my 'dates' given to me when I was pregnant.

The dates the midwives gave me were off, and I told them this repeatedly. I charted my cycle and I even know the night he was concieved!

The dates they gave me meant DH was abroad on holiday during conception

I dont believe he really does doubt our son. But it is upsetting when he makes these jokes, and sometimes I wonder if he really does have niggly doubts just because of the blue spot.

Ive been with him since I was 14 and Ive only ever slept with him and he knows this.

I sound so daft but I cant say this to anyone else! lol

TIA

ds2 had one. We and our families are white. I'm dark-haired but quite fair-skinned, dh is Nordic blond.

Hmmm, the health visitor told me it was very very rare for a child with a white family to have one.

But they do spout bollocks sometimes.

Dh and I are both white, though dh has fairly brownish skin (suspected Mediterranean ancestry); I am very blond and Swedish. Dd had bluespots. Of course there may have been some foreign ancestor hundreds of years ago, but I have certainly not been unfaithful.

DS has one.
I think it's more unusual for white children to have them but not that rare.
I think your HV is wrong.

I've seen white babies with blue spots before. It's not very common but your ds isn't the only one.

I think they may be a tad more common in Jewish families than non-Jewish families. I may be wrong...

Afaik, it more common for a child of non-white background to have this but equally that doesn't mean that virtually no child of exclusively white European parentage will not have this. If that makes sense!

Just for the record, ethnic does not mean non-white/European.

My dd had this when she was wee - hv said it was common in afro-caribbean families but none in our family tree afaik but it faded when she was 2 or 3