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

poppyolivia

I can't remember but I remember very clearly not long after starting them having them one day and we had ran out of toilet roll all that was in the bathroom was the Scottish farmer and The Farmers Weekly!!!lol I was traumatised!!!!...plenty STs though but that always sticks in my mind for some reason!!

I think I was about 15 or 16..I was dead skinny then.

gabyjane

hennagirl wrote: »

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.

Oh hun i'm sorry to hear about your dad..again equally as sorry for lol at the thought of your dad making a sanitary belt from ribbon..bless him!

hennagirl

Thanks Gabyjane - yep he certainly did have a 'way' of coming up with alternatives solutions!!!

tara747

hennagirl - your post made me laugh and cry at the same time!! My dad is also no longer with us and I miss him every day. (((hugs))) to you.

Mado

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 did quite quickly... well when I went out and ivestigated what I needed because my mother never bought my stuff!
I used virtually nothing else for years, but now after 3 kids I mix and match...

ShockingPink

bestpud wrote: »

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.

If you're of a nervous disposition, look away now... but this is my "funny" tampon tale:

I used to sometimes be a bit "dry" when changing tampons, so would dip the end in some vaseline to ease the situation. One day I was in a bit of a hurry. It was too late by the time I realised I'd dipped it into Vicks Vapour Rub :eek:

Mags_cat

ShockingPink wrote: »

If you're of a nervous disposition, look away now... but this is my "funny" tampon tale:

I used to sometimes be a bit "dry" when changing tampons, so would dip the end in some vaseline to ease the situation. One day I was in a bit of a hurry. It was too late by the time I realised I'd dipped it into Vicks Vapour Rub :eek:

Oh my word, that made my eyes water - can't imagine what it did to you :eek:

(I know I shouldn't - but :rotfl:)

jackieb

ShockingPink wrote: »

If you're of a nervous disposition, look away now... but this is my "funny" tampon tale:

I used to sometimes be a bit "dry" when changing tampons, so would dip the end in some vaseline to ease the situation. One day I was in a bit of a hurry. It was too late by the time I realised I'd dipped it into Vicks Vapour Rub :eek:

Oh my! :eek: I think i;d have been screaming.

I rubbed deep heat into my hubby's back this week. Then I needed the loo. I had to wash my hands before going to the toilet so I wouldn't suffer a similar fate.

choille

Did it clean out your tubes?:eek:
Sorry, but that's so funny, but would imagine very painful.

Horasio

I was 11 and thankfully started during the summer holidays, so no school embarrassment.

My mother was always going on about her 'bleeding'. She had bad fibroids that made her bleed constantly. She kept it to herself but sometimes she moaned about it. I didn't really understand what she was going through but even then I thought men had it easier.

I knew older women had periods but had it in my mind I was going to start at 16, so got a real shock when I started at 11. Not only did it feel dirty (wet), I felt so awful, I turned from a fun loving child into a very introverted 'teen'. I was also very depressed at what she told me, that it would go on for several years and you could get pregnant. I didn't get the proper sex talk till a few months later at school, which was rather :eek:. My mother told me not to get too near boys. I envied the fact they didn't have to go through it.

I knew absolutely nothing about the reality of periods. I thought I was going to bleed constantly like my mother, not bleed for a few days then bleed again approximately a month later for another few days, unless I got pregnant, great choice I thought:(

It was the beginning of a hormonally traumatic life till I had my hysterectomy after I had my son. I was irregular, apart from when I was on the pill, it was painful and the worst thing was how weak I felt when I was on. Then the PMDD came later. Pregnancy was the only time I felt right.

I cried my eyes out and my mother was really nice and yes she had the belt and Dr Whites. I felt such an old frump wearing them. My mum and dad were living apart at that time and told her not to tell him, and I didn't tell him till I was 15 when my mother had her hysterectomy. He said he knew years before but didn't want to embarrass me.

I started using tampons when I was 13.

Whilst my mother was very nice to me and explained it all to me, I wish she had told me sooner, so I could have been more prepared. Apart from pregnancy, it is a major physical life changing experience, which is terrible for people as young as nine to experience unprepared.