When Your Girl Starts Her Period...

how will you help her through those embarrassing times?

I am worried about sending my girls to school once they get older. I know I have a while to think this over, but my 4 yr old is about to turn 5 next month. She is pretty mature for her age. I started my period in the 5th grade. My mom didnt discuss with me about periods. I just woke up to pee in the middle of the night and I was soaked in blood. What if I had been at school? I guess I just want to save my girls the embarrassment. I remember seeing girls with blood on their pants or this one girl who stood up and there was blood all over her chair.  
How will you help your DD with pads and tampons? Obviously showing her how to use a tampon would be awkward. Pads stink if blood is dripping on them, but they are great for backup.

Do you ever think about this stuff?

Yeah. That scares me too. And I dont even have a girl.. I remember that stuff happening to me when I was getting used to it.

Oh man great post...I was very late when I started so I knew all ready from the girls around me. Im having a girl and didnt even think of that yet.

I sure do. My 10 year old wears a B cup. It scares the living smurf out of me. But we have already spoken about our bodies and reproduction systems and how they work. She carries panty liners in her backpack, just in case, because I know it's coming soon. She's not scared of it happening anymore, but she really hates the fact she has boobs.

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Yes I do even though she's only one. When I was younger my mom made me use pads. I couldn't use tampons. I started when I was nine. It scares me. We hadn't had the talk in school when I started. Thank God I was home

I got the period talk in the 2nd grade after my best friend went through puberty early.
I kept 2 pads, a change of underwear and gym shorts in my backpack from that day forward, by my moms order. (We had uniforms, red and black plaid skirts would hide any leak through, but gray gym shorts on thursdays would not.)
I ended up needing the pads, underwear and gym shorts in the 6th grade, when my period showed up in the middle of a Spanish vocab test. The teacher wouldn't let me go to the bathroom, even when I told her the problem. She was a bitch.
I'm glad my mom explained it and put the pads and shorts in there!

As soon as I started having cramps when I was 8, my grandmother sent me to school with a ziplock bag with extra panties, a couple of pad and shorts. She also wrote a note to the teacher letting her know whats going on. I plan on having the talk with my daughter and doing the same. Maybe not the note, but we will see when the time comes. I wouldn't feel comfortable with my daughter using a tampon right out the gate because I know it can hurt her. I didn't start wearing tampons till I was 14/15 because I wanted to go swimming.

The best way, in my opinion, is just to communicate what will happen, what can happen and how to avoid situations. That is what worked with me. Luckily I started on the weekend at my grandmothers but I had to go with my grandpa to buy pads. I was so embarressed because he carried them on his shoulders through walmart. My he came home at first my grandma was like I need you to go to the store and he was like what do you need, mayo. lol

Man do I WISH my mom prepared me a little more! She briefly showed me how to use a pad when I first got my period and that was it! I remember so many times having embarrassing accidents at school b/c I just had no clue what I was doing. I finally figured out tampons on my own, but I remember being so mortified ALL the time! LOL- I plan to try my best to help DD from going through this!

I don't consider it embarrassing. Every girl is going to have one.

I am going to give her a purse ((unlike my fanny pack my mom made me wear)) for her to use to put her pads. If she changes it like she is supposed to, nobody will notice any smell. I would like her to wait until she uses tampons until I know she is responsible with changing her pad or until she is in middle school. ((I was 9 when I started mine.)) I will teach her about her period when she reaches 7 so she is comfortable with the fact that is going to happen by time it does.

Plus, once she starts it, she can start shaving! Score for her!  

My daughter is only 3 months old but I plan on encouraging her to think of it as a good thing, something sacred. Being open about my own cycles and telling her the same will happen when she's a bit older. My partner and I used to affectionately refer to that week as "broken" that's already been nixed.

Also, I use cloth so I will probably equip her to do the same.

I don't have girls, but my 2 year old boy knows about periods. He gets mad when I don't let him get me a pad out of the cupboard. Now, it won't be like this when he gets older,simply because he's a boy. Growing up I always saw my mom in the bathroom so I knew what went where and why.

My mother had the talk with me in 3rd grade: sex, reproduction, body parts, periods, etc... (All very technical). I was 12 when I started and went straight to a tampon, it was the middle of the summer and I was on swim team. My plan is to get a book and do the same thing with my daughter. I will have her keep a pad in her back pack, so if it does happen at school she will know what is going on and will be prepared.

I was 14 When I got mine I hope DD is a late bloomer like me lol

My daughter is 9, she'll be 10 in April and this scares the poo out of me lol. Main reason is because she's already an emotional mess, I dread what she will be like then LOL. She has known about menstrual cycles for years now, so we have all of that covered. When she finally starts we will go out for dinner and "celebrate" followed by a gift.

My daughter is 7 and she already knows that mummy has special "plasters" because when you are a grown lady you bleed and that its nothing to be ashamed about, quite often if she comes in the toilet and sees that im on she will ask if i need a new plaster yet, (i use both tampons and pads) if i say yes she will ask the colour and if i want a flat plaster or a pointed one! She was 4 when i had my son and she came in the bathroom the day i gave birth, its been since she saw the blood then that she has asked questions she thought i was dying bless her, so i sat her down and explained that im not in pain apart from a lil belly ache and its not like a cut where it really hurts and the fact that every month mummy has this special cut that lasts for 5 days, she accepted it. My mum forced pads on me and i hated them, at the age of 16 i told mum that i wanted to use tampons, she said to go for the no applicator ones, i tried them and couldnt get on with them, will let my daughter choose what she prefers when the time comes, she is already developing boobs and it scares the hell outta me that 7 years has gone so fast, just think how fast the next couple are gonna go and i cack it!