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E has one of these on his forehead too, he's almost 8.5 months. It has faded since birth, but it gets darker when he's warm or agitated. I wouldn't worry too much about it... sometimes family just needs to zip it.

wow thats a bit insensitive of them, especially the "I still love him" comment, although I'm sure it comes from a good place. Lets see what the dermatogist has to say but if I were you I would tell my family to stop commenting on it because you dont want him to be self conscious about it .

I can see how that would be upsetting.

My brother had a really good friend who had almost half his face covered with a dark birthmark like that and he was absolutely awesome. He would have looked so weird without it and I would never have wanted him to do anything to get rid of it (if that's even possible). It totally made him. He was really good looking too.

I dunno. I think your family needs to just love him and not comment on his birthmark.

I don't think anyone understands how insensitive it is to hear those remarks. If it's something more, I think your pediatrician would have said something by now.

DD has a bunch of red marks on the back of her head (stork bites) and some days they are darker than others. Supposedly those will fade away, too. My MIL always commented on it until DD's hair finally grew in enough to cover it.

@BabyBoecksMom: My DD has a stork bite too and the family always have something or the other to say about it, especially since her hair doesn't cover it yet. I just ignore them.