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[babyslime]

Well, Yule was uneventful. As a was the new year. I just wasn't feeling the holiday spirit. I can't tell if I'm depressed or ill, or perhaps a combination of both. The last few days I've felt like absolute shit and have wavered between a terrible migraine and wanting to throw up. I'm restless and exhausted and having strange dreams every time I lay

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[facethemoon]

Man I am not ready for our kids to hit puberty. Also, your baby is growing! I can't believe she's crawling and eating food already. Insane. It was just yesterday, wasn't it?

[babyslime]

I know. :( I'm so sad.

[mammaopal]

Is it possible that she's started growing pubic hair, and is embarassed for anyone to see?
I was 8 when my breast buds popped up, and it was a week later that I started growing pubic hair. It was quite shocking to me at that age, and made me super self conscious about public pool change rooms, or my Mom seeing me nude.

[mammaopal]

Also, those are the prettiest socks I've ever seen!!!!

[babyslime]

Thank you! I quite like them. :)

[babyslime]

That is a possibility I did not even consider... it never even entered my mind. Wow. That's insane...

[farfalla_dolce]

I can wear my sons socks and shoes and he's 10. It's mind boggling

[babyslime]

She's going to be taller than me, which makes me really happy. I'm the tallest woman in my family.

breast buds are just the start and this is not too early

[anonymous]

Both of my girls started puberty in 4th grade (around age 9). My eldest just turned 12 and she is really filled out in every secondary sexual characteristic but has not yet hit menarche. Which is totally fine with me, although the mood swings for the last couple of years have not been all that fun.

I think the body shyness is a part of the emotional changes going on and not necessarily connected to an actual physical characteristic that she finds embarrassing. American Girl books has a great release on puberty that both of my girls have found helpful.

Hey and that picture of Z with her tongue out - not looking so tied anymore!

Re: breast buds are just the start and this is not too early

[babyslime]

Thanks. :)

And, yes I wrote about Z's last appointment with her OT a little bit ago and how, given her improvements, it's more like her tongue was "Functionally" tied rather than physically.

[gardenmama]

Scott's feet are only a little smaller than mine too, but that doesn't freak me out so much because I'm a fairly short woman and I have no reason to expect him to not be an average size man. (I hope, my husband is only 5'8") So far he hasn't shown any body consciousness in front of my or aversion to my nudity. He hasn't wanted to change clothes in front of other people for about a year.

I do worry that sexual maturity will hit him before he has the emotional maturity to handle it. After all, most neurotypical teenage boys aren't mature enough to handle it ;) I worry that he'll never have enough impulse control for me to trust him in any situation that isn't supervised by at least two adults! Even on 2 different ADHD meds we haven't seen much improvement on that front. I worry that he could be too easily manipulated by his peers to do whatever someone else wanted. I guess these are your typical parenting fears, magnified because they aren't typical children.

[babyslime]

Yeah, EXACTLY. :-/