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

Loopy_Lobes

The school nurse at my daughters school suggested the girls use a pencil case for their 'supplies' instead of a toilet bag as it was less obvious what was in there should a boy or a teacher happen to see it!

bestpud

Loopy_Lobes wrote: »

The school nurse at my daughters school suggested the girls use a pencil case for their 'supplies' instead of a toilet bag as it was less obvious what was in there should a boy or a teacher happen to see it!

Unless a friend is told he can borrow a protractor and opens the wrong pencil case to find it, as happened to a girl in my class at school! :eek:

It actually passed off ok as the boy was quite sensible, but it could have been awful for her!

gabyjane

Hi thanks suzyp1982 for your reply. We are close but not in that way..she is shy..i'm quite quiet and we dont discuss things really like that..me and dh are open about things though in conversations. We bought her a 'what's happeneing to me' type book a while back, she must have known what it was as was quite embarrased..bless..have no idea where it is now.
Last night we went shopping and i got some pads for her..i was quite upset by it really as she's my litte girl..not quite so little i guess! i stood there for ages as dont use them and felt a right fool as the lad who was unstocking next to me must have wondered what the hell i was doing! ..dd got bored and wandered off returning with an electric toothbrush she wanted..should have hurried up more as turned out expensive!
I have decided that talking to her is best done tommorow night onwards as although i know she knows about it it is her 11+ tom and i dont want any sort of worries in her head..ill do it tommorow night..wish me luck!

patchwork_cat

Did no body go straight onto tampons - I did. I can't use them now as I am too heavy and I HATE pads.
I did struggle with them the first month and I think I will give my daughter pads at first whilst at school, but I think she will be much happier with tampons too, so I will get them in too. Must do that this weekend. I have a little pencil case that I am going to give her with some essentials incase she starts at school.

Which brand pads are most DD's using and what thickness?

bestpud

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Did no body go straight onto tampons - I did. I can't use them now as I am too heavy and I HATE pads.

I didn't try tampons for a few years and tbh I have never got on with them anyway. I use them for swimming and that's about it.

JBD

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

It's the chunky ones who start early. Alas I was a skinny little whippet and didn't start mine until a year after my younger sister. Oh, the humiliation!

My daughters school nurse told me this too, it's actually height and weight combined that decides the age of 'starting'. This may help explain why girls on average start younger nowadays.

ailuro2

I remember seeing something on TV, they had worked out it was 7 1/2 stone that seemed to be the magic weight for starting. They didn't mention about height though. An American website suggested around the 100lb mark, which is 7st 2lbs. Some others suggest it's a percentage fat thing, or that it can run in families for early starters. Some mention discharge, but that's more info than I really need, thank you very much!.:eek:

I guess it will just happen when it happens - like we were told in the Brownies and Girl Guides - the MOtto is 'Be Prepared'

hennagirl

Just indulging in a few tears - I had the 'talk' when I was about nine from my mum and aunt - they could see me going into puberty so I was prepared in that sense. When my period actually started, we were in the middle of a house move - mum in Leeds and me with me dad and bro in Southampton. So I had to tell my dad - bless him, he went down to the shops and bought some towels for me. He didn't realise that they were the old lillywhites sanibelt ones and yes we didn't have a belt! So he devised one with some ribbon to hold the towel in place. Job done!

The tears - because he passed away a year ago.

hennagirl

Just reading Jackieb's post - I am open with my kids and they know when mum is on her periods. My DS when he was younger used to call sanitary towels 'mummy nappies' and bras 'nipple holders' !! Imagine my embarassment when he was a young one and with me in the lingerie department - he saw a mickey mouse bra and proceeded to shout out 'Mummy this nipple holder is nice'!

pinkneonmartini

My mum was actually really good about the whole thing! She'd got me some plain panty liners to keep in my school bag (all girls school so it was nothing different to anybody else) and a little travel pack of wet ones incase it caught me by suprise and some painkillers, it was like a little kit.

But it decided to show up the day we went to meet my nan ofter her and mum hadn't spoken for 8 years!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a day that was! my nan was all proud coz she couldn't believe the little girl she'd last seen was becoming a woman :rolleyes: It was a bit of a girlie day coz my mums got 3 sisters, so there were 5 of them fussing over me, but i got lots of hugs, a hot water bottle, cheese on toast and a cup of sweet milky tea, and after a couple of hours me and mum left, and she had a little cry in the car about me not being her baby anymore, but then laughed it off and got far too excited about the prospect of us talking about "boys" instead of barbies lol, little did she know a few years later i'd be talking about "girls" lol

oh and i was only 11, but i was a big girl, and still am (too big if i'm honest!) and was one of the first in my year.