Mongolian birthmarks are also not painful to touch. They are flat and have the same texture as normal skin. A baby can also have one spot or several of them. The shapes range from oval ...

These are skin markings, described as bluish to bluish-gray, sometimes as purple, found most often in the buttocks area, base of the spine, and the back, sometimes as high up as the shoulders. Sounds ...

The term “Mongolian blue spots” is now considered inappropriate ... The marks occur when some of the skin’s pigment cells, or melanocytes, get “trapped” in the deeper layers of skin ...

(Photo credit: Dr P. Marazzi/Science Source) Congenital melanocytosis, which used to be called Mongolian spots, are common on babies with dark skin. They appear when some pigment didn't come to ...