“Later” puberty in bigger girl
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Anonymous
| I have an 11.5yo dd who is on the heavier/bigger side for her age, she @5’2 and 115lbs and she hasn’t started any real signs of puberty. Most of her friends of the same age already have underarm hair, breast buds, and some have their period, (possibly pubic hair too) and many of them are smaller than her. She’s worried that she will be the last one to develop. I read that many girls get their periods at @100lbs but she’s nowhere close to that. Should we be concerned at this point? |
Anonymous
| No. The only place I’ve read about 100 pounds was here. DD was stick skinny and got hers at 9. Dr said she was in the range of normal. I was an overweight kid and got mine closer to 12. I think my sister was around 14. 11.5 is well within the age of normal, but check with her doctor if you have development questions. |
Anonymous
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My DD only just got hers at 13 1/2
everyone is different why worry about it - when there are so many concrete things to really worry about |
Anonymous
| I was 8 and around 80 pounds. My sister was 15 I think, and since she was 5'6", I'm assuming she was over 100 pounds. There's no correlation for many/most girls. |
Anonymous
| Some girls dont till 14. I'd be really glad. I've heard, not from a doctor though, that hormones in meat causes it to happen early. Maybe you are veg or eat hormone free meat |
Anonymous
| 5’2 and 115 is not heavy or big, in my opinion. My almost 11 year old is a few inches taller and much heavier. |
Anonymous
Sorry, forgot my point - she also has not gotten her period yet. |
Anonymous
| I was an overweight child, didn’t get my period until 14, and went on to have a totally normal life (except I never really “got” my boobs). Also easily got pregnant with all 3 of my kids FWIW. |
Anonymous
| I was very overweight and didn’t get my period until 13.5. I don’t see evidence for this correlation in science. |
Anonymous
| From what I’ve read the period comes about 2 years after breast buds start. My DD is almost 9 and just got bread buds this spring. I’m thinking her period will start at 10ish which makes me sad. It’s so young. |
Anonymous
My child first got "buds" at 9 and is now 12.5 and has not started yet. This despite a wide variety of aunties and surrogate grandmas openly speculating on how she was going to start soon (a trend I tried to shut down). |
Anonymous
My 11 year old also got them early , we noticed at the end of 2nd grade at 8 but she still doesn’t have a period at the end of 5th grade now. She also has similar weight and height to your daughter , OP. I’ve read about the 100 lbs thing online but I think it may just be a coincidence for some people, I was 70 lbs when I got mine and I know several relatives that got it at all under 80 lbs. |
Anonymous
If weight was correlated with puberty, I wouldn’t have had my period until I was about 17 I was underweight and the doctor said that the timing of puberty is mostly genetic, and I got my period at 13 just like my mom, aunts and grandmother. On the other hand, my sister and cousin were also underweight and didn’t get their periods until they were 16 and the doctors said that age 16 is when they start considering other medical problems if your period hasn’t arrived by then. We have a family history of being underweight and some of us had delayed puberty, so I spent a lot of time dealing with this as a kid. And I get it—the teasing is hard! I looked 3-4 years younger and smaller than my actual age, so also endured a lot of teasing.
My mom is a doctor and said that there’s evidence that being overweight releases additional hormones that cause early puberty, and doctors are seeing more signs of this. Not sure if any of this helps, but might be worth chatting with your pediatrician if you’re concerned. |
Anonymous
| My daughter is 14, very short (5 feet tall) and weights 105 pounds. No period yet. |
Anonymous
| Puberty is really hard to predict and there is a large range of normal. Also to note, some girls progress slowly over years and other girls progress through the stages very quick. I wouldn’t get concerned until 13 if there was still zero sign of any puberty |