5 month old chest retraction.

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Hi.
Bit of a strange one here. The other night while bathing our daughter we noticed that when she was breathing in her chest seemed to dip inwards.
I have included a link to a photo of it happening.

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She isn't having any trouble breathing or anything, slight nasel congestion but that's it. We rang the out of hours doctor who said to take her down to A&E which we did. They checked her chest, back and throat and they said everything seemed perfect and that they wouldn't worry about this sort of thing. They would only begin to worry when it is accompanied by certain other things like grunting etc.
I'm still left worried though as it just seemed to appear out of nowhere. Does anyone else have experience of this? I was thinking that maybe it might have appeared because her belly is getting bigger so it makes it more noticeable.
Is this completely normal and I'm worrying over nothing?
Hopefully this makes sense to others.
Thanks for any help you can give.

Glad you got her checked - and that she is ok! - think it was the right thing to do.

Our DS2 looked like that a lot, because he was born with pectus excavatum (concave / dip in his chest). Made more pronounced when you saw him breathe. Did the doctors mention that at all? Ours got picked up when the health visitor didn’t like the look of him breathing and suggested I go to GP, but that’s all it was. It’s got a lot less noticeable as he’s got older.

Hi.

No they never mentioned that. We will probably make a doctors appointment just to get her looked at again.
Thanks for the response.

Hi op, I noticed my dd's chest looked like that around the same age too. The gp said it was fine but it's still prominent now she's a toddler. She's never had any breathing issues so maybe some do just have chests like it.

But I was also planning on questioning pectus excavatum (spelling?) At her next hospital appointment.

That's reassuring, thanks for the reply. Glad that it hasn't caused your daughter any issues.

It does look like pectus excavatum. My dd has it, she is now in her 20's. She has it severely, but has never caused any problems until recently, she has had a ct scan and her heart is now displaced to the left and is causing problems. They no longer do surgery on the nhs for this as apparently it is cosmetic I'd definitely speak to gp.