I was BFd for about 2 months and then put on regular cow's milk (which to
this day I do not enjoy drinking).  I had my first menses at age ten.  My
sister who is two years older than me and also BFd for about 2 months & put
on cow's milk started her periods at 14.   We were both skinny kids.  I
hadn't started to develop breasts or grow pubic hair and didn't until I was
12.  My sister, at 14, was the opposite - she started developing around 13
and got her period a year after she started to develop.  So I actually had
my period for a couple of years before my older sister started hers (and I
had to hide the fact as per my mother's instructions so she wouldn't feel
embarrassed about it -- she didn't know until we got talking about it in our
late teens).  Someone figure that one out!

I had also read that proximity to the ocean can affect onset of menses as
well.  We lived two blocks from the ocean in Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada when I was growing up.  Now we're desert dwellers in the Mojave
Desert of Southern California.  I'll be interested to see how my kids (all
three are currently nursing - ages six, almost three and 6 weeks old today)
who exclusively BFd for more than year before introduction of solids and
living far away from the ocean affects the girls onset of puberty/menarche
as opposed to me not being BFd very long and living by the ocean.

Margo, LLL Leader in Southern California
Proud Canadian
Mummy to Liam, Ceilidh & Rhiannon
See us at www.picturetrail.com/canadianmade

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