Lucy writes:

About 15  years ago I read an article in a medical journal (I may still have
it, but my  office is packed from moving) about why menses begins later in
breastfed  girls. Does anyone have any articles to cite on this? It wasn't just
with  soy-based formulas.  I can't remember if it referred
to puberty in  both sexes or just girls.



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I don't have the reference, but I remember the New York Times running a
piece  a while back on how components in breastmilk shut off a switch  to start
menses that would get flipped earlier in girls who were not  breastfeeding. My
daughter and her friends who were breastfed, though not all  exclusively, got
their periods later, at more normal ages, like 12ish, though  there were
variations in families etc.

Peace,
Judy

Judy LeVan  Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL
Brooklyn, NY,  USA




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