Have "Mongolian spots" fooled anyone else?

[SevenwatersDaughter]

I have kind of a funny story about what happened when I was looking after a child for the first time the other day.

I am in the process of getting my day care licensed and I have three full-time girls and one part-time boy. There is a new family in town that I just met, they are recent immigrants from China. I met the mom at playgroup, and she really needed me to watch her daughter for one day because she and her husband's work schedules overlapped.

I said sure, no problem, and they brought the little girl (2 years old) to my day care. Well, I was changing her diaper and noticed what I THOUGHT to be deep blue bruising all over her bum. Having never seen this before, I thought the best thing to do would be to call my child care coordinator who is helping me get licensed. I described the marks to her and she told me to call Child and Family Services just to be on the safe side.

Before I did, I thought that I had better check the rest of her body to see if there were bruises anywhere else. I found what looked to be another huge bruise in the middle of her shoulder blades. So I called CFS and they sent someone over to check it out.

Well, you can imagine my relief when I learned that it wasn't bruises at all but something called "Mongolian spots", a type of birthmark that is very common for children with Asian heritage. The CFS worker was very nice, and was happy that I had called because, as she said, it's better to be safe than sorry. I felt kind of foolish but she assured me that they got calls like this all the time.

So all in all no harm done, the parents will never know that the call was made, and I learned that the CFS workers are very nice and really care about what they are doing.

If you visit this link you will see what Mongolian spots look like: https://www.google.ca/search?q=blue+...w=1366&bih=643

Has anyone else had a similar experience? I am just so relieved that it was just a birth mark.