When a baby is born, parents usually review them with their eyes to see that they have all their fingers (even when they were already seen on ultrasound) and that everything is in place. Thus we also see that they have swollen eyes and that sometimes, on the forehead, in the eye and / or on the neck they have red spots.
We believe it is from childbirth, but days and weeks go by and they are still there. What are they? Well, maybe you have ever heard it, but just in case it hasn't been that way, they are the angel's kiss Y stork bite.
The angel's kiss
If you had just been born and an angel approached you to kiss you, where would I give it to you? Exactly, from his flight, flapping his wings, he would approach and give you Forehead kiss, like Nora, the girl in the photo. That is why many babies have on their foreheads a red spot, more or less large, that remains after days.
In Babies and more Toxic erythema: rash with red pimples on the skin of the newbornThe stork bite
Storks have a large beak, and although they are very skilled in the art of carrying babies flying from Paris, sometimes they go beyond the sheet in which they are wrapped and unintentionally rub the babies' neck with the tip of their beak. It is a small thing, never serious, but that mark on the neck is also for some time, as a sign that something happened during the flight.
And what are they really?
Well, they are the same, but in a different area. They are red spots of birth that respond to areas where blood vessels are closer to the skin, more superficial, and therefore give color. They are also called salmon spots and, in a more scientific way, simple nevus.
They occur in 30 to 50% of newborns and usually appear on the forehead, eyelids, nose, upper lip and neck. When babies cry they tend to be even more contrasted, because the brands take on even more color.
In Babies and more My son has a spot on his back and buttocks: the Mongolian spotIt is a benign stain that no treatment required and that usually disappears as the weeks and months go by. By 18 months they have mostly disappeared, although in some cases they remain even in adulthood. After 3 years, if it is considered aesthetically harmful, it can be removed with laser. Those of the neck are the ones that usually remain the longest, although they are not usually treated because they are there.
