Extra calcium build up on my 2 months old rib?

Question

i had my daughter on june 15. and since birth i notice a little hard lump on one of her rib bones on her lower right side but it was so little sometimes i didnt notice it i thought i was just imagining things. when she was 2 weeks old i had to take her to the ER for her breathing (we live in SAC and that is when we had all the fires, so the smoke was affecting her) and they did ex rays and never said anything, all though i forgot about that too, more worried about her breathing it slipped my mind. so at her one month appt. i remember about it and asked the PED to look at it. she said it was extra calcium built on her rib and gave us some oral vitamins for her to take to try to absorb it up. (am breastfeeding her). well now she is 2 1/2 months old and it seems just to get bigger with her, instead of decreasing. i have an appt. with the doc in 2 weeks, but im scared. is it really an extra calcium build up? or something else?

Answer 1

It's probably nothing.. Babies have funny things like that all the time. My son has a strawberry hemangioma on his shoulder (google it, they're funny looking..), and I would have sworn on my life it was a tumor or something.. Nope, just a build up of red blood cells. So yeah, your daughter is probably fine! :)

Answer 2

if i were you i would not want to wait until 2 weeks i live in roseville and there is a place out here in california called med7 i do not know if you have heard of it but i take my daughter there when i can not get an appointment it is a walk in doctors office so you do not have to sit in the er for hours..but i would definitely take her in just to be sure and if it is getting bigger 2 weeks is a while to wait

hope this helps..