Any doctors who can help about a little girl's lump?

[crazylazydaisy]

My daughter has just asked me to feel her left breast as she has a little lump there. She is 8 years old. She has told me she noticed it 3 weeks or so ago when we on holiday but she was embarressed to tell me, aaah bless. Now am a little worried but this may be normal do you think? Dont want to take her to docs and they say "its her bone you silly ejit" (no I know they wont really, they are lovely but dont want to waste their time). Any ideas very gratefully received x

Could it be a breast-bud? Breasts start growing with a lump under the nipple. Perhaps a little early for that though? I'm not cure what the average age is for starting puberty...I think I got 'breast buds' at about 11, but I was a fairly late developer.

I'm sure someone wise will be along soon

it's probably a breast bud which is the start of puberty. my son had the same thing though i'm not a doctor

Is there not a dr in the house

Oops, posted too soon . Meant to say, i was thinking along the same lines as the others, but hopefully someone else will shed some more lght on it for you. Failing that, a quick call to your GP tomorrow might be a good idea.

snap spawnchorus!

i did on search on here a few weeks ago as my son had the same thing.

This has just remended me of a question my Mum asked me yesterday and i said i would find out for her(she lives in turkey).
My Brother is 13 and has a small lump behind his nipple. He says it hurts a bit and sort of stings.
Could this be the same thing do you think?

my son is 13 too tortoise, but it's getting smaller again

Thanks SEA.Did his hurt a bit too?

he said it did a bit it was like a hard lump but i've just looked again and it's definitely gone down.

There have been various threads like this in the past, and everyone always says breast buds and not to worry IIRC

Thanks for your responses. My 2 other dds never complained about this at her age but then we all different i suppose. It's just that i thought the buds would grow the same either side and this is just on one side, so will look up the other threads Tamum said about.

I distinctly remember mine started on one side (the right).

I think that's what usually worries people, the fact that it's on one side only. This looks like a good site

This is what annoys me when people moan about mumsnet. All the answers have made me feel so much better, otherwise i would of sat here with that sick feeling in my stomach all evening worrying till I could speak to doc tomorrow. Thanks again all. I looked at old "breast buds" threads and some very similar stories. Thanks for the link Tamum x

That's great, crazylazydaisy

I have just sent my Mum a text and she is pleased to know its nothing to worry about.

i've searched on here for loads of problems and there's always a thread on it. it's just great to have a massive database of mums experiences.

Wish i had known about it when ds started having seizures last year, but hadnt heard of it until a certain person was unhappy about the site and it was in the papers! So I have a lot to thank her for

That is how I found this site too! Every cloud...