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Intervention for early female puberty?

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RavishingRedhead · 21/01/2011 13:07

My daughter, who just turned 7, is showing signs of nipple development. There are no other signs of puberty, no public hair, body odour or anything like that. I am expecting her to start having periods early because I did, I was 10. But I would be concerned if she started any earlier than that. For one thing, after starting to have periods I didn't grow another inch. Thankfully I was 5ft 5 so a reasonable adult height. Were my daughter to start in say, a year, she would be very short. I have heard of people intervening with hormone implants and wondered if anyone had any experience of that? Do I need to have her assessed in some way? It would be a shame to realise it was too late to intervene.
I should add that she is a healthy weight, tall for her age and in every way normal.

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PrincessScrumpy · 21/01/2011 14:20

I would let her body do what it wants to, but if she starts her periods do get it checked out with gp. I started at 9 and had hair and boobs (only 30A but I was only 9) and I'm fine. I would try to avoid messing with hormones if I could.

I had a general anaesthetic and a consultant checked nothing was a-miss. Mum was even allowed in the operating theatre (they didn't cut me but felt it would be too traumatic for me to be concious when they looked).

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