I was at a baby shower yesterday. I was having a conversation with a woman (our daughters used to go to preschool together) that I hadn't seen for a while. We were catching up and she was telling me that her pediatrician told her that girls are starting their periods as early as age 9 these days. This did not surprise me. I have heard this before. I myself started at age 10 and I'm 45. What she said next almost made fall out of my chair. She told me that her doctor said that if that were to happen to her daughter that they would have to "stop it "because she wouldn't be mature enough to handle it. I asked what she meant by "stop it" and she said they would give her medicine to make it stop. I assume that would be hormones but she wasn't sure. I was speechless. I didn't know what to say but my mind was screaming YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!!! I didn't say anything. I needed to regroup and get some facts. I will be speaking to her again soon. I will have my facts and I will tell her that she needs to really consider the long term damage that kind of intervention will do to her daughter. What are we doing to our children? We are trusting our doctors to give us good advice and following it without question. We need to question everything!  Tammy