The girl says that her friends and relatives were menstruating when they were 11, 12 years old
Doctor, in ten days I will be 13 years old. My friends and women in my family were menstruating when they were 11, 12 years old. I was born premature. Do you think this could affect my first period?
If you were born prematurely, but developed normally, there is no relationship between your premature birth and the fact that your period has not yet arrived.
By the way, your period is not late. Normally, the first menstruation occurs between the ages of 13 and 15. Your friends and the women in your family started a little earlier, but you are not late, no. You are in your right time, in your normal stage of development.
You would only be at risk of having your period later if you had a severe impact on your development due to prematurity, if you had a nutritional deficiency or if you were very, very low weight for your age, this could justify or explain a possible delay.
In short, you’re not late: you have until you’re 14 or 15 to have your first menstrual cycle. Keep calm.
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