Female hormones
The stereotypical idea that women are at the mercy of the hormone creature has been touted for years. Whatever you think is not true. While women’s hormones have a great influence on our lives, we don’t have to become slaves to those things. Understanding how these hormones may affect women’s health. Body, intellect and emotions will better enable the female in helping to minimize the negative effects of hormones, and help to enhance the positive effects.
Infancy
Generally we tend to believe that our hormones begin to kick in at puberty. They actually affect our bodies during our earliest childhood. Newborn babies (girls as well as boys) can have slightly enlarged breasts, accompanied by a bit of milk production occasionally at birth, because of the female hormone, estrogen, which is in the mother’s body and passes through to the placenta while she is pregnant which stimulates breast development in the infant. Typically the enlargement disappears after a few weeks, but in infant daughters some breast enlargement may continue infrequently in the first two years, but it is now due to the baby girl’s own hormones affecting the breast tissue. The enlargement of the breast may come and go repeatedly over months or years, before it will completely disappear in childhood.
