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xiphoid process

SoHopefulSoHopeful
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so, last night when i was giving ds his bath i noticed this thing, sort of at the base of his breast bone, right in the middle.  it was very hard, like a bone, but it caught me off guard...i hadn't noticed it before.  i didn't COMPLETELY freak out (just a little) because of the fact that it felt like a bone, not a growth (whatever a growth feels like, i'm not exactly sure, but i don't imagine it to feel hard like a bone).  anyways...i call dh over and he feels it and while he says he doesn't think it's anything to worry about we still wanted to know what it was.  so, after the bath and while i was feeding ds his last bottle of the day, dh started looking stuff up online.  we didn't even know what to enter into google...."hard bone in baby?"  "hard lump, bone thing at the bottom of baby breast bone?"  so, we started entering these random phrases and we actually think we figured out what it is! there are a gazillion links, but here are just a few:

https://www.drhull.com/EncyMaster/X/xiphoid.html

https://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/biology/humananatomy/skeletal/sternum/xiphoid.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiphoid_process

i'm wondering if it is more apparent to me now because ds is crawling and maybe losing a little bit of chub.i will definitely mention it to his pedi at his 9 month appt next week, but before finding all this stuff i was ready to rush him to the ER!  lol!  and the reason why you may not notice it on yourself is because this bone fuses to the body of the sternum between the ages of 15-29. 

has anyone else noticed this?

 

 

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Re: xiphoid process

  • rosesandpeoniesrosesandpeonies member
    My 17 yr old sister has it. 
    DD (8/12/09), DD (2/8/11)
    BFP 12/16/14| EDD 8/19/15 |MMC 1/15/15 (9 weeks 1 day)
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  • SoHopefulSoHopeful

    imagerosesandpeonies:
    My 17 yr old sister has it. 

    i believe everyone has a xiphoid process

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  • rosesandpeoniesrosesandpeonies member
    imageSoHopeful:

    imagerosesandpeonies:
    My 17 yr old sister has it. 

    i believe everyone has a xiphoid process

      I didn't look at the links...My sister has something where part of her breastbone sticks out.  It is benign but it juts out a little bit.  I thought that might be what it was called because I forgot what it was.  Now that I look at the links I now see what u are saying :)
    DD (8/12/09), DD (2/8/11)
    BFP 12/16/14| EDD 8/19/15 |MMC 1/15/15 (9 weeks 1 day)
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  • jhelly77jhelly77 member
    Everyone has one.  It's a normal body part.
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  • AngelaEsqAngelaEsq

    Everyone has one. If you are not sure if someone is unconscious, you rub it and if they are faking they will whince b/c it will hurt really bad.

     

    I learned that as an EMT.

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