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Does your baby have a skin spot that is beige or light brown?
Chances are, its a cafe-au-lait mark, a harmless and common bang out of birthmark.
What are cafe-au-lait spots?
Cafe-au-lait spots are flat, usually round or oval, and can be light to dark brown in color.
Think a very large, pale version of a freckle.
Cafe-au-lait spots can form when pigment-producing cells called melanocytes group together under the skin.
Some babies have them at birth, but they can also develop during early infanthood.
The spots can occur in all skin tones, though they seem to affect Black babies slightly more often.
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Most cafe-au-lait spots arent harmful and dont turn into skin cancer.
Consider it just one more special thing that makes her unique.
While the vast majority are harmless, cafe-au-lait spots and other birthmarks are always worth keeping an eye on.
Rarely, cafe-au-lait spots can be linked to certain health conditions.
Large marks with jagged edges are tied to McCune-Albright syndrome, a rare genetic condition.
