Puberty Facts

Puberty is the time of life when girls and boys mature sexually.
The age of puberty varies hugely, but on average it is between 10 and 13 years for girls, and between 11 and 15 years for boys.
Puberty is started by two hormones sent out by the pituitary gland – the follicle-stimulating hormone and the luteinizing hormone.
During puberty, a girl will develop breasts and grow hair under her arms and around her genitals.
Inside her body, a girl’s ovaries grow ten times as big and release sex hormones.
The sex hormones estrogen and progesterone spur the development of a girl’s puberty.
Puberty is part of the longer and more complex time called adolescence, when young people %tart to change, not only physically, but in the way they think and behave as well.
A year or so after puberty begins, a girl has her menarche (the first menstrual period). When her periods come regularly, she will be able to have a baby.
For a boy during puberty, his testes grow and hair sprouts on his face, under his arms and around his genitals
Inside his body, a boy’s testes begin to make sperm.

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