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EARLY PUBERTY Consult a doctor to rule out problems that could be linked to early puberty EVELINE GAN, eveline@mediacorp.com.sg AT AN age when most kids’ worries rarely go beyond homework and playtime, nine-year-old Liza Ang has to grapple with a very different set of problems. They include having to put up with unsightly armpit hair and learning how to use a sanitary pad: She started menstruating early this year. Understandably, Liza’s earlier-than-usual sexual development left her mother, Mdm Emily Peng, baffled and anxious. “Obviously, I was shocked. I noticed that she was showing signs of puberty months earlier but I didn’t think she would get her period so early,” said the 48-year-old sales coordinator, who added that Liza’s older sister got her first period only after she turned 13. Liza isn’t alone in her early growing-up woes. In 2004, a nine-year-old Singaporean girl gave birth to a boy after she was impregnated by a schoolmate. The baby was eventually put up for adoption....

This is a repost… the first time I did, it was simply a copy of the clipping, and it doesn't print well. So hopefully, this will be OK now. ----- PREGNANCY PROBLEMS They are a 'growing concern', but many women decline treatment ALICIA WONG, alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SHE was cranky and constantly craved her husband's attention — but she thought it was because she was pregnant, and those traits would go away in time. After all, this was her fifth pregnancy, and the previous four had gone smoothly. But after having difficulty breastfeeding her one-week-old baby boy due to an earlier fever, Madam Chong's emotions took a turn for the worse. "I was disappointed and very frustrated," the 39-year-old housewife shared. This soon escalated into insomnia. The final straw came when she woke up in near-hysterics one night. "That's when I realised something was not quite right," she said. Mdm Chong was later diagnosed at the National University Hospital wi...