"Baylee had a birthmark -- it was a strawberry, red, raised, about the size of a nickel on her forehead," said her mother Shawna Shaw.

Three-year-old Baylee was born with one of the most common types of birthmarks: a strawberry hemangioma. Her parents decided to seek treatment for the raised lesion.

"I decided that I wanted to get it lasered because I was afraid how kids would treat her and it was in a very obvious spot," said Shaw.

Bailey's birthmark would probably have gone away on its own; 90 percent of hemangiomas fade by the time a child is age 9. A series of laser treatments sped up the process, but some birthmarks do not take care of themselves.

"As a general rule, I tell parents that port wine stains are unlikely to go away by themselves, the vast majority of them do not," according to dermatologist Dr. David Greenstein.

Most birthmarks need to be treated four to eight times at a cost of several hundred dollars per treatment.

"We hold this tube over the birthmark and push a button and a pulse of light comes out exactly where we beamed it," Greenstein said.

Baylee's mom is pleased with her daughter's results.

"She's my beautiful little girl. Not that she wasn't before, it's just that now when people look at her face, it's not the first thing they see, you know, a big red spot, it's just her, Shaw said.

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