Start of puberty age 8!?

[youlemming]

I know it can happen and isn't usually deemed as early unless under 8 from what I've read but I'm wondering if my DD is starting a good few years before the avg.

She has what I would say are breast buds forming, but she is a chunky/overweight girl so I don't know if it's puppy fat or breasts.
She's started to use deodorant as in her words she smells like peppers during the day at school.
Now today as well as having low down stomach pain which does happen from time to time, she mentioned having slime in her pants.
There's no hair as far as I can see.

Generally she's a bigger than avg girl, already 1.37m or around 4ft 6 I think and in 11-12 yr old clothes. Regularly has growth spurts to the point it causes issues with the growth plate in her heel becoming inflamed and very tight calf's/tendons.

Would you see the doctor (not sure what they could really do) or wait and see?

a few things -
overweight girls do tend to develop younger, so worth having a think about that.
at 8 she could easily have all those symptoms and not develop to the next step for a while. It is usually 2 years or more from first signs to periods.
dd1 was quite early with first signs, but didn't start periods until 13 in the end. She was certainly using deodorant, had breast buds and mood swings and hair at about 9.

Get her a couple of books, Usbourne has a nice one for girls.
Girls do start periods in primary school, although year 5/6 is more common. (If and it is only and if) she does go on and start, go in to school and make sure there are bins in the loos, and she knows where and what to do with stuff, some primaries are great and others totally unprepared.