Most of these children are in fact normal girls who don't need extensive testing and treatment with expensive medications. Pediatrician Paul Kaplowitz is also an expert in hormone disorders. He has written new guidelines saying it's normal for girls to go through puberty as young as 6 or 7. It takes between two and three years from the first breast development to the first menstrual period. In some cases, it's even longer.
Puberty can start at an early age and progress at a very slow rate.
That is something the parents of Cheonte Harding wish they'd known earlier. It really threw me. So we thought, let's go and see. Cheonte was diagnosed with precocious puberty and put on Lupron. The monthly injections were a traumatic experience for everyone.