My five year old has just been referred to the peadiatrician as she has developed pubic hair and smells of body odour. I noticed the hair around two months a go, not much and on her inner area of her labia - had I not have been applying some cream (sore from not wiping properly) I would not have noticed. I did a quick google and decided to monitor it to see how we went. On Wednesday I noticed that she smelled very strongly when I was helping her in the bath and so I rang the doctors on Thursday morning. To my horror, they saw her immediately, the referral was made on the same day and today the hospital rang with an appointment for August. It has all happened very quickly and I'm feeling quite raw about it all. She is very tall, but once her feeding issues were sorted as a baby she has always been in the higher centiles, it is nothing new for her, but now I recognise that this can also be a sign of precocious puberty.
As she was born early, we had a lot of intervention when she was younger and she was rereferred back to the peadiatric team last year due to hypermobility and associated sensory processing difficulties. We've had physio and OT involvement, got the school behind us and we've been "free" from appointments and hospitals for around 9 months. And now this.
I am usually very pragmatic, but I'm struggling with this at the moment. I feel quite teary (most unlike me) but I suppose this is to be expected. I feel terribly guilty that I didn't report it back when I first found the pubic hair, but as it was in isolation and because she's had so much intervention I wanted to wait and see.
Has anyone else had experience of this? I'm trying not to jump ahead of myself, but I'm very concerned about the possible tests involved as she finds these types of things extremely difficult. I'm also panicking in case they don't offer treatment (aware it is not useful for me to speculate) as I can't bear the thought of her continuing to go through puberty.
Any hand holding/suport/info appreciated.
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Precocious Puberty - hand hold please
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0AliasGrace0 · 08/07/2016 19:01
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