Puberty.... at 7?

I feel like I have a million things i want to blog about, yet i can't seem to find the time in my day like i used to for writing. I don't know why but my days lately feel so overwhelmingly full and i feel like if i have time to be on here, i have other things that need to be done more urgently. 

Right now, i should be working. So whatever time i spend on this post, i will have to make up for later and will probably be kicking myself - why didn't i just get my work done? but anyways... 

Gemma is 16 months and this baby isn't coming for another 3. I subscribe to Today's Parent magazine and this issue had an article that just rang a bell with me. It was about puberty and how girls are getting their periods younger than ever, like 7-8 years old, grade 2-3. No one knows exactly the cause of this early puberty, but environment definitely plays a factor. Like a girl adopted from an undeveloped nation will get her period years before her peers in her home country. Obesity seems to be linked as well (fat = estrogen)..

As a soon to be mother of two girls, this is a scary thing to think about. We give Gemma organic milk and we buy most of our chicken from a free-range meat store. We buy free-range pork and try to buy natural beef when we can. I know if i was really dedicated, i'd buy everything organic, but unless we only want to eat chicken five times a year, i don't think we can realistically afford it. But then again, the "experts" aren't even sure that it's from the meat we eat - it could be from the plastic the children play with. So do we have to become a vegan home in rural Africa with only wooden, unpainted toys to give my daughters a longer childhood?

Poor Jesse may have to deal with a house of raging hormones sooner than he thinks...