My 6 Month Old Has like a Purplish Veins on Right Side of Forhead

Motherhood is challenging, and those little newborns just don't come with an instruction manual.

Here are a few guidelines:

1) Most things are not emergencies.
2) Some things are. So you have to learn to tell the difference.
3) Your pediatrician has a 24/7 phone line. After hours, try to call if things are really important, but during regular hours, you can call for small things when you just need reassurance or guidance. The doctor or the nurse will tell you what to do, which might be "nothing," or which might be "come in and let us look." Very rarely will it ever be "Go to the emergency room" but you can trust that they will advise you if it's indicated.
4) Learn to keep a list - on the fridge, in your phone, anywhere you can consistently list things. That's a working list to have handy when you call or when you have an office visit. Include things about changes in eating, peeing/pooping, temperature, behavior. Sometimes you'll cross things off the list because they go away, but sometimes it's a really helpful timeline when sleep-deprived parents try to reconstruct when something started up.
5) Take a pediatric first aid course.It's so helpful and so empowering to learn how to distinguish emergencies from non-emergencies.
6) Join a mom's group if you can. Talk to your library (or check the bulletin board), your town's office for children (if you have one), your local Y or JCC, groups like the Newcomers Club (ours doesn't require people to be brand new residents), or groups through church/synagogue/mosque. Getting together with other parents really helps you gain experience and confidence.
7) Make friends with your librarian and find some great books on parenting.
8) Don't be afraid to ask for a second opinion or even change doctors if you really feel you aren't getting answers.

So, regarding this vein - see point #3 above. Call the doctor, express your concerns, give an estimate of how long it's been there, and ask for guidance. My guess is, they'll tell you it's okay and they'll check it at the next well-baby visit, but ask anyway.

Two of mine have very fair skin and when young, you could see their veins in their cheeks at times. I never worried about it, and similarly, in their eyelids.

Even now, I still can see them sometimes.

Varicose veins to me sounds bulging and prominent. My brother has one like this down his forehead. I have one on my temple when I lie down, or when hot or exercise.

I would just mention it to her pediatrician at next visit. ETA - I do remember this as B says (below). Check out responses there.

what does her doctor say?
khairete
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Thanks for your question C. F.

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What does her pediatrician say?

Ask you pediatrician next time you see them...unless this is due to an injury then schedule an appointment right away.

My daughter had a large spider vein on her cheek. It had a redish-purple dot in the center and then the same color streaks that went out in all directions from it. It didn't bother her and was only cosmetic according to her pediatrician. However, I had a dermatologist remove it the summer before she started kinder.

We could afford the procedure, it wasn't traumatic, likened to being popped with a rubber band twice on the spot by a small laser. We went out for ice cream after.

I figured enough kids had already asked her about it in pre-school to bother her about having it and she got a fresh start in kinder...new kids and no purple spot on her face.

Has it always been there or did it suddenly appear? If it's always been there, it's not an emergency. I assume that you have checkups every month or so at this age so by all means ask your ped at your next appointment. A friend's baby had something that sounds similar, and it was considered cosmetic but she still had it cauterized when he was very young so it wasn't visible anymore.

If this suddenly appeared, then call your ped and get an appointment to have it looked at right away.

There was a similar question about this awhile ago.
Here it is:

https://www.mamapedia.com/questions/2209377786198884353

Have you talked to your pediatrician about it?
What did the doctor say?