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Hi, my six year old daughter has fine hair growing in her arm pits and her vagina. Is this normal? I'm worried about precocious puberty. Her development is otherwise normal, and she's of average height and weight.
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Keep a watch on it if you feel hairs are increasing,voica change, enlarged breast in that case may be precocious puberty which needs thorough examination and evaluation by endocrinologist better if it's Pediatric endocrinologist
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