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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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