GA Girl Gets her Period @ 5 years old...

Qurious

Qurious

Im On 1.
Skyla Jones' mother took her 5-year-old daughter to the doctor
after she noticed her a body odor and blood in her urine.
A doctor said Skyla was going through puberty.

Oct. 27, 2006 — Most parents would agree that their kids always seem to grow up too quickly, but now, puberty is hitting young girls earlier than ever. Nearly half of African-American girls start showing signs of puberty by 8 years old, and some American girls are developing as young as 5, even 4 years old, experts say.

Skyla Jones is an energetic 5-year-old from Georgia who loves to play. Last year, her mother, Melissa Jones, noticed Skyla was tired all the time, had a body odor, and had blood in her urine. "I didn't know what was going on," Jones said. "I just went ahead and thought she had a kidney infection. And we went on antibiotics and still it didn't clear it up." Skyla was eventually sent to Andrew Muir, a pediatric endocrinologist at Georgia Medical College who knew exactly what was going on. Skyla was menstruating and was experiencing other unmistakable signs of puberty. "That's what he told me that it was — that she was having a menstrual cycle," Jones said. "I was really freaked out."

Studies have tracked an increasing trend of early sexual development. By age 8, almost half of African-American girls and 15 percent of Caucasian girls start developing pubic hair or breasts. "The switch that normally gets turned on for pubertal development gets turned on too early," said Dr. Diane Stafford of Children's Hospital in Boston. Until recently most doctors didn't expect to see these signs until age 10. "It can have many causes," Muir said. "Some are related to genetics, environmental factors, and sometimes we just don't know why it happens."

For Skyla, a thyroid problem caused her symptoms. While she was too young to really understand what was happening, her mother worried that other kids might. "I was worried kids would make fun of her because kids are cruel," Jones said. Because Skyla started treatment for her thyroid problem, all her symptoms have gone away. Muir expects her next experience with puberty to be at a more reasonable age.
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this is disturbing....
 
pixiegirl

pixiegirl

Cleopatra Jones
rack'm said:
Thank the chemicals in the meat we get from the stores. :yay:
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I was thinking the SAME thing. We eat an unreal amount of hormones. I have migraines to the point where I couldn't be on any form of hormone birth control. Even without it I'd still get migraines and several days before and the first couple days of I'd have my worst headaches. Along with medication and physical therapy I've done a complete overhaul of what we eat. If I CAN buy it organic, I do. I suffer from 1/10 of the headaches I use to.
 
CMC122

CMC122

Go Braves!
pixiegirl said:
I was thinking the SAME thing. We eat an unreal amount of hormones. I have migraines to the point where I couldn't be on any form of hormone birth control. Even without it I'd still get migraines and several days before and the first couple days of I'd have my worst headaches. Along with medication and physical therapy I've done a complete overhaul of what we eat. If I CAN buy it organic, I do. I suffer from 1/10 of the headaches I use to.
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Last February we bought a 1/4 cow from a local farmer. He didn't use hormones or antibiotics in his meat and it was a good price IMO. The meat was awesome! Some of the best steaks we ever had and now it's all gone:lol: So now if I buy beef from the store now we all get sick! Thankfully Bj's has buffalo burger to get us thru all the dang chicken we're eatting.

I can't wait till January so I can put in another order and this time I'm going to double it!
 
CMC122

CMC122

Go Braves!
Qurious said:
I got mine at like 11...I can't imagine if that happened at 5.

They are so scared.....
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I believe I was 11 also. I didn't grow up on store meats either. My dad is hunter and all we ever ate was venison, homegrown pork and chickens. Meat was never bought from the store:lol:
 
pixiegirl

pixiegirl

Cleopatra Jones
CMC122 said:
Last February we bought a 1/4 cow from a local farmer. He didn't use hormones or antibiotics in his meat and it was a good price IMO. The meat was awesome! Some of the best steaks we ever had and now it's all gone:lol: So now if I buy beef from the store now we all get sick! Thankfully Bj's has buffalo burger to get us thru all the dang chicken we're eatting.

I can't wait till January so I can put in another order and this time I'm going to double it!
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PM me the info if you don't mind.
 
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aubriana

New Member
rack'm said:
Thank the chemicals in the meat we get from the stores. :yay:
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Don't forget about all the hormones in the MILK most kids drink! I only buy organic, hormone free milk. It's expensive, but I feel the health benefits are worth it.
 
Chasey_Lane

Chasey_Lane

Salt Life
CMC122 said:
Last February we bought a 1/4 cow from a local farmer.
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My aunt does this, along with pigs, too. She raises her own, then...you know. :gossip: What's the cost for something like this? How much did you pay for 1/4? Did you specify what you wanted?
 
CMC122

CMC122

Go Braves!
Chasey_Lane said:
My aunt does this, along with pigs, too. She raises her own, then...you know. :gossip: What's the cost for something like this? How much did you pay for 1/4? Did you specify what you wanted?
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The cow has so many steaks and roast in it which are divided by how much of the beef you want. You can have it all put into steaks, or hamburger or take the cuts as they have them already divided. You get stew meat, steaks of your choice, roasts of your choice, bones for soup, etc. We have 5 in our family and a quarter cow lasted 6 months, and that was eatting beef alot more then we usually did in the past:lol:

We got approximately 150 pounds of meat at $3 or $4 dollars a pound. Comes cleaned, cut, packaged nicely and prefrozen delivered to your door:yay:
 
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Wickedwrench

Wickedwrench

Stubborn and opinionated
CMC122 said:
The cow has so many steaks and roast in it which are divided by how much of the beef you want. You can have it all put into steaks, or hamburger or take the cuts as they have them already divided. You get stew meat, steaks of your choice, roasts of your choice, bones for soup, etc. We have 5 in our family and a quarter cow lasted months, and that was eatting beef alot more then we usually did in the past:lol:

We got approximately 150 pounds of meat at $3 or $4 dollars a pound. Comes cleaned, cut, packaged nicely and prefrozen delivered to your door:yay:
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I'll just bring you venison parts in a bloody cooler.:roflmao:
 
Chasey_Lane

Chasey_Lane

Salt Life
CMC122 said:
We got approximately 150 pounds of meat at $3 or $4 dollars a pound. Comes cleaned, cut, packaged nicely and prefrozen delivered to your door:yay:
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Okay, so $450 for the meat and another $400 to buy a bigger freezer. :lol:
 
CMC122

CMC122

Go Braves!
Chasey_Lane said:
Okay, so $450 for the meat and another $400 to buy a bigger freezer. :lol:
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We had already had the freezer so it wasn't a big deal:lol: Watch the classifieds and sometimes you can catch them pretty cheap.
 
rack'm

rack'm

Jaded
pixiegirl said:
I've done a complete overhaul of what we eat. If I CAN buy it organic, I do. I suffer from 1/10 of the headaches I use to.
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:high5:

But buying Organic milk at $6 a gallon does suck! :lol:
 
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