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6 year old with pubic hair

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binderellacinders · 12/12/2025 17:36

Quite shocked tbh. DD is 7 in the spring. One of the tallest in her class. A little chunky but more her build is curvy. She’s very active.

for the past 12 months we have used deodorant on days where she’s doing lots of moving about as she can get slight body odour. She has dark hair, & even from an early age has had dark hair on her arms & legs. Today she was in the bath & pointed out hairs growing on the outer lips of her vagina. They’re likely half a cm long & slightly dark. Maybe 4 or 5 on each side.

she doesn’t have underarm hair & I can’t feel what I believe are breast buds. I’m assuming I’ll need to book her a Doc’s appointment to hopefully rule out precocious puberty.

anyone had any experience of this?

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beadystar · 12/12/2025 17:57

A friend’s son had this; it was precocious puberty which is treated with medication until the age puberty would happen normally. Their height gets stunted if it’s untreated so I would take her to the GP.

binderellacinders · 12/12/2025 19:13

I really hope it’s not that but I will get her a docs app.

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