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I started talking about this with my eldest daughter when she was about 8 or 9, just in very basic terms, and I'm so glad I did because she started when she was 10! That really blew me away, especially after my own experience.

Yes, 21 was extremely old to start and whenever I share that with a doctor, I always get raised eyebrows. My mom did take me to see her gynecologist when I was 16 and he told me that I should stop running so much. But he didn't explain the correlation to me or to my mom. And he warned me that if I didn't start my period soon, then I'd never be able to have children. That kind of scared me, but again, I had no idea what the relation to low body fat had to menstruation. So he wasn't a lot of help. And, because I was so into running and competing in races, telling me to stop running was like telling me to stop breathing.

But because of what he said about never being able to have babies, I just assumed that I wouldn't be able to simply because I'd started my period so late. That turned out to be totally wrong info.....