How old was your daughter when she started to get armpit hair?

[Anonymous]

Daughter is almost 10 and I have seen an increase in the amount of hair on her legs but so far, no hair under her arms. Wondering what the norm is for most girls.

[Anonymous]

My DD is ten and has no under arm hair yet.

[Anonymous]

DD is 11. So far, nada.

[Anonymous]

9 -- we are a hairy family.

[Anonymous]

Fine blonde hair at 10
Coarser and darker at 12

[Anonymous]

When my daughter was nine she started with fine blonde leg hair then pubic hair shortly after, she is now ten and Just started to get hair under her arms.

[Anonymous]

11.5 - nothing

[Anonymous]

8

[Anonymous]

I started shaving underarms at 11.

[Anonymous]

A lot of this has to do with hormone consumption.

An organic diet and girls will hit puberty later. If eating meat and milk for example with hormones, puberty will obviously hit earlier. A girl down the street was nine when she got her period - crazy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this has to do with hormone consumption.

An organic diet and girls will hit puberty later. If eating meat and milk for example with hormones, puberty will obviously hit earlier. A girl down the street was nine when she got her period - crazy!

Nice theory, not proven. Anecdotally, my kids only drink organic, hormone-free milk and they are otherwise vegetarian. My daughter had the beginnings of puberty in 5th grade (hair, needing deodorant) and got her first period at 12.5, which is about average for this generation but certainly not late.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of this has to do with hormone consumption.

An organic diet and girls will hit puberty later. If eating meat and milk for example with hormones, puberty will obviously hit earlier. A girl down the street was nine when she got her period - crazy!

don't ASSume anything. My dd is going through puberty since right before 7 and has had armpit hair since. We're a family that has eaten only organic meat, produce, and dairy since her birth. We do eat out, but are better than most about watching hormones- especially in milk and meat.

It isn't obvious. Feel bad for the mother that told you about her DDs period only to have her be judged. My dd will probably get her period when she is 9 as well.

[Anonymous]

No clue as this in the future (DD is 6) but she has pretty visible leg hair and actually made a comment about it. As a hairy lady myself, I am hoping to be really on top of the shaving situation when it occurs. I begged my mom to let me shave and she caved in 5th grade. It was horrible and I was so self-conscious about it.

[Anonymous]

11.5 and none. But, she's on swim team and reports that lots of her peers do have it.

Here is a NYT article that addresses the signs of early pueberty and actually questions whether breast development or hair is evidence of pueberty at all.

"Breast development doesn’t automatically mean early puberty. It might, but it doesn’t have to.” Don’t even get him started on the relationship between pubic-hair growth and puberty. “Any paper linking pubic hair with early puberty is garbage. Gar-bage. Pubic hair just means androgens, or male hormones. The first sign of puberty in girls is estrogen. Androgen is not even on the menu.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/magazine/puberty-before-age-10-a-new-normal.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[Anonymous]

11.5 and none so far.