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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Breast buds are the definitive sign of puberty, not pubic hair. Adrenarche is different than puberty and you can have early adrenarche aka development of pubic hair - usually just a few hairs - and that does NOT mean early puberty or periods. My kid had a few longer dark hairs at age 6 and we went to the pediatric endo. They start with blood tests and if only the dhea (sp?) is  raised and no increase in estrogen etc that is the differential diagnoses. If the estrogen is increased they will start doing bone age testing.

I actually was more afraid of some strange adrenal tumor but that is rare and levels would be very high. A mild increase will grow a few hairs but not what you would consider full pubic hair like an adult.

This is what I was told by two pediatric endos (got second opinion). [/quote]

That’s strange. My pediatrician said pubic hair is definitely a sign of puberty. My DD’s pubic hair seem to be a little ticker than everywhere else. He said my DD is at either Tanner stage 1 or 2 depending on whether those are actually pubic hair.[/quote]

Also, she has no breast buds whatsoever.[/quote]

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