Congenital Nevus

hi H.
my son was born with a cleft lip and palate. I meet a mom at the plastic surgeons's office. (Cook Children's in Dallas)
Her daughter has a similar Congenital Nevus. It covered her head and down part of her face. This mom was consulting a plastic surgeon. Did your pediatrician recommend that? I know nevus has possible big problems down the road.
B.

Hi, my cousin's son was born with a large congenital nevus under his left eye. It grew as he grew and my cousin decided to have it laser removed. He is now 9 and you don't notice a thing, maybe a glimmer of tissue difference when the light hits it just the right way, but other than that you would never know he had anything there if you didn't have the pictures from his infancy. As far as the staring, my cousin was the master at treating the situation as though this was totally normal (because really, it was). If people stared, she just smiled, just like she would normally do and converse if the situation warranted it. People always look at babies and that's the way she acted, like they were just looking at her precious baby.

Depending on how large it is, why not just have it removed? Bruce McDonald in Wichita Falls does a fantastic job.

I have absolutely no mole experience (my husband has had several removed), but I had my own attention getting brace from ankles to hips until I was 9 or 10- my best response to people staring is to 1. Smile and 2. Say Hello.

They'll either say hello back or hurriedly find something else to do. People are going to ask - 99% of them don't mean to be rude, they're just curious.

S.

H.,

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M.

I do not have any experience with this exact thing, but I can definately relate to staring. My son is almost 8 and acts about 3 or 4 sometimes due to his autism.

It sometimes helps to make people aware that you notice they are staring. Be suttle and do it in a positive manner to keep your daughter from realizing what you are doing (by the time she is old enough to realize, you should be a pro at doing this).

I suggest that you simply comment TO your CHILD in a voice loud enough to be heard by those staring (but not loud enough to come across as "obnoctious") that "God made you special and you are just SO BEAUTIFUL!" A lot of times this brings a smile to the face of the starers who are meerly curious and not really realizing they are staring.

You are blessed to be her mother; I can tell you are blessed by her in return.

In Christ,

P. <><

My daughter was born with one on her leg. It was small about an inch and looked like the shape of South America...cute. But it was growing with her and the shape kept changing. I do have skin cancer in my family and I know Congenital Nevus can become cancerous later. So we decided to have it removed when she was 16 months. It was better to do it young because since it was growing it would of taken multiple surgeries to have it removed and she would of needed a skin graft.

I have seen on TV those type of Nevus removed off of a child scalp and face before. They will most likely need to put a skin expander under her scalp so that the area they remove can be replaced with skin and hair. It is better to do it now...

I can give you my DD plastic surgen name if you want it.

Good luck.

My daughter was born with a quarter size one on the back of her knee. At six months we had half of it removed and at a year the other half. It kept growing and changing size and color. I had already been through chemo/radiation for a rare throat cancer that fell into a skin cancer catagory. I had 4 opinions and all 4 felt it was safe to remove it rather than let her grow with it. By the time she was 2, they told me it would of had a 34% chance of turning into cancer. We used a pediatric plastic surgeon who had a specialty with cleft lips, he did an amazing job. Good luck! M.
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