Is it possible (girl question)

[RebeccaB]

Good thing that 100lb mark thing doesn't always count, or I'd have never started. Seriously, I was ridiculously skinny in high school, a stick w/****s. Now...if I only had that problem now.....
Back on the topic, I'd join the others in suggesting a trip to the dr. My pip squeak is 9.5 and tiny, so I don't expect this issue anytime soon but I'm still planning on preparing her so she doesn't think she's dying or anything..

 

[paintnolish]

6 seems pretty young, mind you there is a girl in my dd class who is 9 and has hers.

Yep. There's a 9 year old girl in dd's class who has hers. How old were you when you started? You are supposed to start around the sdame age your mom did. However, my mom got hers at 18, but all of my sisters and I got ours around 13. Good luck!

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

My dentist actually brought this up last week. For whatever reason, he tried to convince me to start buying organic milk, no artificial hormones. One of the reasons he cited was that regular processed milk contains hormones that are causing girls to have their periods sooner. He said one of his patients has a child that just turned 7 and got her period.

 

[Wonders10]

I got mine when I was 9. I was also overweight as a child.

Is there a certain reason that you suspect she has started menstruating? My niece has always had hairy legs and she is 9 now. The acne is a little confusing though - are we sure its acne and not a reaction to something. Obviously you know your DD best so I would still recommend talking to your pediatrician.

Good Luck!

 

[happygirl]

I got mine when I was 9. I was also overweight as a child.

Is there a certain reason that you suspect she has started menstruating? My niece has always had hairy legs and she is 9 now. The acne is a little confusing though - are we sure its acne and not a reaction to something. Obviously you know your DD best so I would still recommend talking to your pediatrician.

Hi, no I really have no reason expect for the hairy legs/acne

 

[merekc]

My dentist actually brought this up last week. For whatever reason, he tried to convince me to start buying organic milk, no artificial hormones. One of the reasons he cited was that regular processed milk contains hormones that are causing girls to have their periods sooner. He said one of his patients has a child that just turned 7 and got her period.

I was just going to suggest this. Someone I know was told to switch their daughter to organic milk because she was showing her bone age more advanced than her actual age (or something like that). They switched to organic and were retested after a year. Her bone age is now more in line with her real age. Kinda makes you go HMMMM. The doctor said she is prescribing it more and more for kids to start drinking organic milk.

 

[MariDisney]

That means my girl who is 9 right now will possibly start at 11-13? I totally am not ready for that.

Get ready!! Mine started with breast buds and hair all over around 8 and had her cycle by 9.5.

 

[freckles and boo]

I was just going to suggest this. Someone I know was told to switch their daughter to organic milk because she was showing her bone age more advanced than her actual age (or something like that). They switched to organic and were retested after a year. Her bone age is now more in line with her real age. Kinda makes you go HMMMM. The doctor said she is prescribing it more and more for kids to start drinking organic milk.

Organic is one choice. There are other brands that aren't rigidly organic but claim that they don't use artificial growth hormones in their cows. We did organic for a while but my girls drink so much milk that it was getting too expensive. They now drink Deans.

 

[disneyismyname]

My great-aunts started their monthly very young, 4-6 range. They didn't have specialist then... but one of the three of them did have trouble keeping a pregnancy.

 

[happygirl]

My great-aunts started their monthly very young, 4-6 range. They didn't have specialist then... but one of the three of them did have trouble keeping a pregnancy.

4-6 I can't even image your poor aunts

 

[robinb]

Organic is one choice. There are other brands that aren't rigidly organic but claim that they don't use artificial growth hormones in their cows. We did organic for a while but my girls drink so much milk that it was getting too expensive. They now drink Deans.

Do you know what's really sick? Monsanto sues the heck out of dairies that advertise that their milk is rBGH/rBST free and better for you than the milk produced by cows injected with their product. Now any diary product that says it is produced with no rBGH/rBST had to ALSO say there is no evidence that it is better for you .

We don't drink a lot of milk in our family. Both my DD and I are a little intolerant and neither one of us likes the taste. I do use cream and eat yogurt and cheese and the like. I try to buy either organic or from a dairy that doesn't use rBGH treated cows like Swiss Valley.

Back to the OP ... I hope that your doctor can get to the bottom of what's causing your DD's symptoms. My DD will be 11 in August and eating like a horse in anticipation of a growth spurt. I think I'm probably still about 18 months away from her first cycle. I am not looking forward to it because as a swimmer she'll have to start right up with tampons. Eek.

 

[Myothername]

One of my co-workers has a daughter who sounds like your daughter except her daughter is thin. She is very tall for her age (she is 6) and built like a young teen. She is starting to get little breasts, pubic hair, underarm hair, moods, very muscular. She had extensive testing and had an implant put in her arm which seems to be helping. You really do need to get her to her pediatrician and don't let them blow it off. They tried that with my co-worker and she insisted they give her a referral to a pediatric endocrinologist. She ended up seeing a second one in another state who finally diagnosed her. They told her that without treatment she will continue to mature but will be short even though she is tall now.

 

[Arkansan]

Our pediatrition told me at DD9s annual appt. that the average age for breast development in the US is 10! She hadn't started yet (he could feel if the breast buds were there or not), but after appointment, that I started paying attention. If you have a DD in the 8-10 range, I'm sure you'll see it is true. Some of the girls at my oldest DD's school are bigger than me--in height and everywhere else!

We drank rbgh free milk in the 1990s, but switched to organic when we moved several years later. I don't know if it helps, but it can't hurt either!

 

[Magpie]

Thanks, I will call him.

Just a side note. My daughter is off the chart in weight but she is also off the chart is height. I didn't want anyone to think she extremely chubby

I'd just like to point out that the correlation between height and weight isn't one-to-one. A child in the 99th percentile of height, who was also in the 99th percentile of weight, would be classed as overweight.

Yes, taller kids are a little heavier than shorter kids. However, just because your child is "off the charts" in height doesn't mean she should also be off the charts in weight. All it means is that she's heavier than 100 or more kids her age, depending on how far off the charts she is. Your doctor can help you figure out if your daughter is getting too many calories, or not.

Oh, and my daughter had hairy legs at 6 and some breast development at 7, but didn't start menstruating until she was 13. So you could still be a long way away from full-blown puberty!