A mother is considering freezing her young daughter’s eggs after she started going through puberty at just 10 months old.
Sophie Dumas didn’t think there was anything unusual about her daughter Sienna until a health visitor noticed that the baby’s breast tissue appeared enlarged.
The 41-year-old took her daughter to the GP, and the pair were referred to paediatric endocrinologists who began investigating whether she had precocious puberty.
A series of ‘incredibly distressing’ tests confirmed baby Sienna had developed the condition in which the brain begins sending the signals that trigger puberty much earlier than usual.
Doctors explained Sienna would need regular injections of
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