*Ladies only*What nice things did your Mum do when you started your periods?

Taypier

I started when I was 13, my parents had just spilt up and luckilly my mum left some tampons and towels before she moved out. I woke up to it on a school morning. I'd had 'the talk' from both parents years before and my mum had shown me what to do lol. I was sooo embarrassed though and it took me a good few days (when the towels were running out!) to tell my dad. He told me to ring my mum straightaway, and asked if I needed any 'women's things' picking up, he could quite bring himself to say tampons or sanitary towels lol. I rang my mum at work and blurted it out, she asked me far too many intimate questions, and seemed very proud! She kept repeating that her baby was now a woman! I'm sure her whole office knew. I told her not to tell anyone, but she told EVERYONE, the next few family meetings where very embarrassing, asking about cycles and flows, yuck! Not good for a 13 year old!

I don't remember getting any special treatment though.

lab-lover

Awww - some lovely ladies here!

My DD (12) is going to start soon and this thread has gave me some lovely ideas, especially shopping and stocking up on different types of pads.

Especially love the lady who bought her DD a bar of choc every month. That's so sweet.

weezl74

my mum:

told my dad for me so I didn't have to:o

bought me black pants

milliemonster

weezl74 wrote: »

my mum:

told my dad for me so I didn't have to:o

bought me black pants

:rotfl:yes I could have done with some of those and black sheets too!!!!:D

squirrelchops

Nothing!!! Didn't ever have the 'chat' just left a booklet out in her room that she knew I would look at!!! Non communication over important stuff pretty much sums up our relationship!!!

pollypenny

My mother didn't explain things very well. I thought it was only going to happen the once!

B****r! :eek:

mazza1985

I didnt start until I was 15, it was so humilating, I started at school and leaked all over the chair! Then a male teacher had to take me home to get changed, and I had to sit on a plastic bag!

I rang my mum and she came back from work with chocolate, hot water bottle, and all the necessary stuff. She din't say much, but the thought that went into it made a difference. I don't think I would have been happy speaking to ehr about it, it was just knowing that she cared.

danielle1977

I started the day we flew to america when I was 14. My mum just took one look at me and knew I had started-we never talked about it though-I went to boarding school and got told about it there and lots of girls had started before me.

We never talked about it at home and for the longest time I was uncomfortable talking about it, my other half-it seemed quite a normal thing for him to talk about, we have 2 boys and am trying to bring them up like up so that they will be comfortable talking to their girlfriends etc.

Mags_cat

D'you know, I can't remember starting my periods.

That tells me that it couldn't have been at all traumatising - therefore mum must have handled it swimmingly well! Yay mum! :rotfl:

danielle1977

jennihen wrote: »

Funnily enough our periods start at exactly the same time now and I always know cos she's a real moo 2-3 days before!!

If a bunch of women(or young women) live together their cycles will get in synch with each other-how do I know we had people come in while I was at boarding school to do studies on us and how our cycles got in time with each other and if a round building was affected differently to a normal shaped building, there was a round building were some girls lived