Periods
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A longer-term version of this happened with Stephen King - during one of his heavy substance abuse periods, he wrote Cujo.
Source: What Did I Do Last Night? -
The reason for this is speculated by an in-universe evolutionary biologist to be that dwarven males outnumber females 2:1 and that it takes about 10 years for a dwarven woman to carry a child to term, meaning that they have to be kept perfectly safe for long periods of time.
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No Periods, Period: Kitty's menstrual cycle is never mentioned once in the series...until it becomes relevant in book four, when she miscarries, then discovers female lycanthropes can never carry children to term.
Source: Literature / Kitty Norville
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