My 7 year old daughter has one breast bud?

Question

OK, about a month ago my 7 year old told me her nipple hurt. I felt it and there was a distinctive marble-sized lump under it. I talked to the doctor and she said it was not unusual in pre-puberty for hormones to go wacky and for one breast bud to appear, then maybe go away and reappear on the other side. Or for it to just stay there for a while and another one to develop on the other side.

A month later, its still there. It doesn't hurt her anymore. There is not another one on the other side.

Anyone ever experience this with a girl this young?

By the way, she is not overweight. She has a slim athletic build. She has no other signs of puberty. And I try to buy hormone free milk, which she drinks a lot of.

Answer 1

If you are still concerned you can take her back to the doctor or do another doctor for a second opinion, but I wouldn't be too worried about it.

Answer 2

Does she eat alot of chicken? If so cut back on ANY chicken for atleast a month. This may help but besides that its just puberty and some children develop one after the other . Good Luck!

Answer 3

No experience with anyone quite that young, but at 8 or 9 years old, I had a classmate with D size b*****s in my 4th grade class (1991)...and that was back before hormones in food became an issue.

The body develops and matures at different rates, even within itself.  No one's body is perfectly symmetrical.  One ear can be higher than the other, a breast bigger than the other, one eye a different color, a leg or arm longer than the other, or some people may wear two different size shoes.  Most of the differences aren't that noticeable.

The doctor says everything is fine, so don't dwell on it too much.  She's absolutely normal.

Answer 4

My daughter was 6 months old when I felt lumps under both of her nipples, I took her to the doctors and was sent to a specialist, he was surprised that this had happened to a baby girl so young.

He said it was a harmless cyst on her ovaries that had activated her hormones and would disappear, they went after a couple of months and never returned until puberty. She is now 15 and perfectly healthy.

Answer 5

take her to the doctor again

Answer 6

My friends daughter started that way too. Now at 9 she has begun puberty. I think it is just the beginning.

Answer 7

This is really normal - my daughter had this at a similar age and I was also worried enough to take her to the doctor about it.

She's now nearly twelve, also slim and athletic (and extremely active), and has only just started to show signs of her b*****s developing visibly, much later than most of her friends. She still doesn't have her period. So it definitely doesn't mean your daughter will enter full puberty young.

Answer 8

I wouldn't worry yet. She won't really develop for a couple of years.