could she have precocious puberty? help pls

[yentil]

i am scared that my dd has precocious puberty. she is only 15 months and has fine hairs under her arms and in pubic area. she is hairy everywhere really but these areas worry me. she has had these hairs since about 6 months and they are still fine but more numerous. many people in my family think i am mad which is why i am talking about it here. i feel so alone in my fears and husband is a silent worrier so no help really.

she also has a few spots around mouth and a few on nose (suffers from excema but this has calmed down now and it was never on face). my friend thinks this looks more like an allergy 'beacuse they aren't oily', but i think she is just trying to make me feel good. could this be early acne? i am scared to the point of thinking she is gonna die. i know this sounds dramatic but the internet has freaked me out. i have a referal penind from GP to a pead at the hospital, but this was a reluctant one, as GP didn't even know what i was talking about. you need a light to see them and good eyesight.

the hairs are fine straight (2mm) and light (1 or 2 dark strands) (but she is darked haired). has anyone gone through this. and what should i expect. how serious is it? she is also very tall and big and gaining weight but not very fat. both her parents are wa above average in height so think this is normal for her.

my heard keeps flipping over when i think of what this could mean. I also keep crying in fear for her. can anyone help please.

has anyone noticed hairs down below and it been normal?

[AitchTwoOh]

my dd has always had hair around her pubic area. someone looking at it would think it's fine and blonde, but it's definitely longer and thicker in the pubic area than anywhere else on her body.

she also gets little pimples occasionally but this tends to coincide with teething and increased drooling.

i remember when i first noticed it there was by coincidence a thread similar to yours on mumsnet. plenty of people came on to say that their dd was the same, so tbh i've never thought any more about it or even mentioned it to the doctor. sometimes looking for trouble on the internet is not the best thing to do, imo.

i hope that someone more official and knowledgeable can help you put your mind at rest...

[sunnysideup]

yentil, no experience personally but from what you've said it really sounds as if there is no problem here. Hopefully the paed appt will set your mind at rest completely.

in the meantime do not look any medical stuff up on the internet..I'm a horror for doing this sort of thing and it's amazing how many symptoms of horrible things can apply to me, or ds, or dh...but we're fine!

I think you've got into an anxious state about this and hopefully the paed appt will help calm things for you.

[yentil]

why do you think there is no problem, have you seen / heard of babies 'normally' having hairs in these areas?

[sunnysideup]

well, it sounds to me no problem because if you need a light and good eyesight to see them, they are very very fine indeed!

My ds is very hairy in some lights, when the sun catches him but ordinarily he just looks a blond, hairless child - but I bet if I took a light to him I could find darker hairs too....your dd is dark haired.....all children have fine hairs....can't say I've looked under arms etc but I bet my ds no different to your dd...

[WigWamBam]

It's very normal for a baby to have fine hair everywhere - and if the GP couldn't see it then it must be very fine.

It's also pretty normal for babies to be spotty - baby acne is quite common.

Hopefully the paediatrician will be able to put your mind completely at rest, but until then please relax and stop worrying.

[foxinsocks]

I don't know what is normal or not but when my dd was born (dark hair, sort of olive dark skin) she was hairy all over - quite literally, all over her back - everywhere. She looked like a little ape!

A lot of that hair has gone but she is still quite hairy and more so than her fair skinned, fair haired brother.

I don't think it sounds that unusual - I haven't examined dd closely enough recently to be able to tell you in detail how hairy she is but hopefully, the paed will be able to help you.

[Bozza]

Both my children were hairier as babies than they are now at 5 and 2. I think a lot of the soft hair as rubbed off over time. DD in fact had quite a hairy back!

[Bozza]

snap fis although despite having dark hair on her back at birth, DD is now a very fair skinned, blonde 2yo.

[miao]

My 16mo DD has "pubic" hair, sideburns and, if I really squint, a moustache. She also has quite hairy legs. I am also worried about this, not so much from the precocious puberty POV, but because I'm also quite hairy and I feel really guilty for passing the fuzzy gene to my DD as I've condemned her to a lifetime of waxing, bleaching etc. Maybe it's early days and it'll all go away (am glad to hear others are hairy too ), but at the moment I'm in total anxiety about her teenage years.

Anyone here had a hairy tot who's grown into a hair free adolescent? Please?

[yentil]

miao; is the hair thick/thin, light/dark? is there anything under her arms?

[miao]

Noting under her arms as far as I can remember (will check later when I get home), but she does have darker and I suppose I bit thicker hairs in the pubic and perianal areas and sideburns and a little in the moustache region. TBH you can't really see the moustache but I kept looking very hard because I'm paranoid and managed to spot a "pattern" of darker thicker hairs. She's also got bushy eyebrows, poor thing, but she gets that from DP.

Oh dear, she's going to become a yeti. At the moment she is dark blondish but both DP and I are dark haired so everything will probably darken up and thicken up at puberty.

BTW, an old work colleague of mine had a daughter with hormone problems at 2 and she had budding breasts, so I should imagine that precocious puberty would manifest itself that way before the hair appears. Can't remember mine TBH but I'm pretty sure I had boobs at 11, well before everything else sprouted. I understand your concern, though.

[bobblehead]

My friend (who is a dr!) worried about the same thing when her dd was around a year. Can't say I've noticed it when I've changed her so I'm guessing its one of those in good light, squinting a bit cases too but when she took her to paed she was told her dd was going to grow up to be one of those "hairy" types of people.