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• Pregcellent: Eat Well, Period. Prenatal Diet Influences Puberty Onset

  Just when the pregnant ladies thought they got enough flack about what they ingest during gestation. Now check this out: Researchers say a mother's prenatal diet can influence the early onset of puberty. Sheesh, I was chalking it up to non-organic milk and Bratz dolls. You mean my nutritional choices during the most hormonally insane period of my life are to blame for my daughter's precocious eye-rolling?  Well, in case you were wondering, it's a... Read More... Posted Jun 18 2008, 09:34 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, research study, nutrition, fat, girls, diet, puberty, menstruation, pregcellent, preteens, gestation, adolescent, prenatal

• Don't Throw Away Your "Monthly Miracle!"

  While I was gestating Kid #1, we got at least a dozen pamphlets from Cryo-Cell International. For a small fee, they'd store the baby's cord blood, just in case she needed it later. Yes, we ponied up the cash.  We did it for the same reason so many parents do it. You can just picture the scene in the doctor's office, where you're sitting on the edge of your seat and holding a sick, sick child in your arms. "If only," the doctor would say, his white coat gleaming under the fluorescent lights, "you weren't too cheap to store her cord blood we'd be able to save her life."   Read More... Posted Jan 30 2008, 05:13 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: stem cell research, menstruation, cord blood banking, baby teeth, c'elle

• 3-Year-Olds Getting Their Periods?

  Here’s something you thought you’d never have to deal with: your 3-year-old going through puberty. Yet it’s a little more common than you think (though, mercifully, still pretty rare). And it looks like something that doctors might overlook at the well-baby check ups. Somehow, the mothers in this story figured out that their daughters -- their preschoolers! -- we're thiiiiiis close to getting their periods, and then spent a good bit of time and energy convincing their pediatricians. The average age of puberty for both boys and girls ...   Read More... Posted Jan 14 2008, 05:27 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: toddler, toddlers, tweens, puberty, breasts, menstruation, girls and self-esteem, tween, healtthy eating, early onset puberty, periods, precocious puberty

• Never Have Your Period AGAIN. Period.

  Ask me this question on any other day of the month except today, and you'd likely get another answer, but today (guess what day this is for me? C'mon, guess!) if you asked me if I'd rather not ever see "Aunt Flo" again, I would say, "Yes, now give me that new birth control pill that eliminates a woman's period FOR-EVAH, and put some chocolate on it!"  NOW!!! Okay, so this isn't exactly news, but it is. For awhile now, doctors have "allowed" women to just skip the placebo pills that stimulate a menstrual cycle and start again with a fresh month's pack, but the FDA has now approved a continual pill, called "Lybrel" (don't you love those purty made-up pharmaceutical names?),that pretty much eliminates menstruation entirely. No word on expected incidences of pesky "unscheduled bleeding," or what potential havoc this could wreak in your system or how it could affect your future fertility or knowing if you actually do become pregnant so you can stop taking the darn things... Like I said, ask me today and I'm all for it, but calm down these hormones a bit and I'm thinking it might be good to think about this one and gather some facts before jumping on it. Posted May 23 2007, 12:06 PM by Karen Murphy with | with no comments Filed under: health, menstruation, birth control pills, freedom