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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’re going through this with my newly 8 year old now too. Breast buds starting, and waiting results on a bone age test. Her ped checked her chest, then immediately ordered the test, no “it’s normal now” talk. My hope is that her bone age is close to normal and she has three more years of growth and maturing before she gets her period. If results are less reassuring, we’ll look into causes (thyroid, cysts, etc), but likely wouldn’t treat with puberty blockers. But we’ll see what the tests say.

And when you do a bone age test, they’ll tell you what their expected height should be and what it is likely to be based on how advanced it is. Mine is supposed to be around 5’9” according to the formula my ped used, but I think she loses at least an inch or two for every year her bone age is advanced. Which hopefully still puts her well in the median range.

And yes, it’s really hard to imagine my 97th percentile kid ending up shorter than me. And really really hard to imagine my baby developing already and potentially getting her period in third grade. But I’m trying not to put the cart before the horse or go down a worry spiral. We’ll deal with what comes when it comes.[/quote]

Mine had the bone age X-ray.   Anything give or take a year is normal.

The reason we did hormone blockers is the endocrinologist said you don’t want your third grader having a period or breasts.  She said that she would be treated as if she was older. She also would not reach her full height if we didn’t block the period.

She’s 12 now, off the blockers and has been developing normally. 5’2” with no period so far.

If your child is in 3rd grade right now she probably wouldn’t get her period until 5th or 6th.  
They also watch for any growth spurts early on.  That might indicate puberty.

I don’t know what her adult height will be but she’s 5’2” now which is fine even if she didn’t grow anymore.   If we didn’t block hormones she probably would have been under 5’[/quote]

Thanks. She’s in second grade and is jumping in the growth charts too, plus is having mood swings and other signs of hormones rising, not just the buds.

The moods and emotions are one thing that doesn’t get discussed much in these conversations. She’s having big, adult feelings that she is not developmentally ready for. They scare and confuse her. She feels out of control and then overwhelmed with guilt (sobbing those big from the gut sobs) when she’s being mean to us and can’t stop herself. As a woman with a uterus, I TOTALLY get it, but she just doesn’t and it’s really hard.

If she ends up losing 5 inches in her adult height, she’ll be fine. It’s getting through the next few years when she’s  getting more and more aware of how different she is that worries me.[/quote]

That’s too much for a 7 year old to deal with.    At 8 years old she stopped wearing tank tops because a boy made fun of her for having hair under her arms.   She was too young to remember to shave under her arms.

The hormone blockers put her on target with her peers.  Good luck with the endocrinologist.  [/quote]

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