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

juno

My sister told me that tampons were pronounced "tampooons"

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Boyfriend tries to be brave and upfront...but always asks in Sainsburys if we girls need 'Feminine Hygiene Products'.

DD2 (10) usually bellows across the aisles 'Mummy has yellow Lillies and my sister has pink Bodyform with wings' or, if it's not necessary yet 'Nah, she's already had her period this month, when she was shouting at the cat last week'.

Sigh.

soupface

I was twelve when I got mine, which in my opinion was about twelve years too early! I was a tomboy in total denial of any femininity my body was developing, which was errr more than enough, haha. My mum was great - in hindsight. At the time her comforting fussing was OH MY GOD SO EMBARRASSING STOP TALKING ABOUT IT LA LA LA. She'd ask me VERY SENSITIVELY if I needed any PADS OR ANYTHING in the supermarket and I'd practically pop a blood vessel in my eye trying to get her to shut up shut up no! shut! upppp! I was paranoid that she'd hear the wrappers opening. From downstairs. Behind three doors. With the TV on. Sad. I used to mute the telly when period ads came on (badum-chhh). ... I was a troubled kid!

I don't know what the best course of action would be to ease the process, but going on my experience, helping out subtly without mentioning it at all, ever, in your life (or until she matures a bit) like the pencil case idea would be cool. I would've appreciated some more kid-friendly tampon instructions/troubleshooting than the ones in the box, like you might find on the internet but be too embarrassed to look up on a family computer.

luxor4t

IWish wrote: »

When I eventually asked for tampons I was told that only married women could use them :rotfl:

Snap! My mum told me it was the law

Mum also that used the coy phrase "bleeding out of your tummy" ...being a bit [STRIKE]thick [/STRIKE] naive I took her literally :doh:well, I was only 10 and life was way more twee in those days (late 1960s).

Needless to say I made sure DD was fully prepared. I think I treated her to some 'grown up' underwear ...black pants instead of the usually pretty flowery ones :rolleyes:

brittny1401

I was thirteen when it started bleeding for me and I informed my mum she was very proud and informed all her friends.

VeganClaire

One of the best things my Mum did for me was make me up a "just in case" bag for school - couple of towels, wet wipes, paracetamol, clean knickers, and extra tights in a little wash bag. I also took this to friends house etc as my periods were really irregular for ages and this saved any imbarasment.

boo666

VeganClaire wrote: »

One of the best things my Mum did for me was make me up a "just in case" bag for school - couple of towels, wet wipes, paracetamol, clean knickers, and extra tights in a little wash bag. I also took this to friends house etc as my periods were really irregular for ages and this saved any imbarasment.

thats a great idea.....

when i started my periods my mum gave me £1.00 and told me to sort myself out with it and not ask for anymore money!!!!!!!!

glad to say i was clued up on how to sort myself out..

but when my step-daughter started she got no help from her mother apart from a pack of towels which she had stuck to herself the wrong way...
i went out and brought her lots of different size towels and pantiy liners and showed her what she was doing with the different things and lots of advice on keeping yourself clean.
oh en a box of chocs for daddy to give her once i had let her agree to me telling him...

rumncoke

I was totally unprepared when I started at 14. I remember being really embarrassed asking my Mom for pads & being given 1 of those horrible belts & really thick pads with loops.
When I had a DD I knew that I would make sure she was well prepared.
When she started hers this summer she just came to me 1 morning & said I've started. She already took a couple of pads & spare pants to school in small make up bag, just in case. We are very open about things & can talk about anything so she was well prepared. I will now just restock the bathroom cabinet as & when needed. (Won't need to for a while as I picked up loads when they were bogof in Tesco)
No big fuss made, although DH did comment "Oh no 2 moody women now" (He is feeling a little lost since DS went to uni in September)

achtunglady

Mine started at the age of 11. It was my mums day off and she was still in bed, when i called her to come she thought i was getting her out of bed because i thought she was late for work. She cam to the loo, i showed her my knickers and she swiftly went and got me a looped towel and belt (i had already bought a pack of stick on ones and they were in my room). She just said you are a young lady now and told me to change the pad often. I went to school as normal and when i came back home on my bed was a box of chocolates, a hot water bottle and a packet of feminax.

I already knew what to expect as i had read a book called Have You Started Yet and i used to spend school holidays with my older cousin and any questions i wanted answering she answered them.

Mado

I was going to get her a pencil case to stash her things away at school... but yesterday, whislt they were at a rehearsal her pencil case was stolen from her bag she had left in a classroom..._pale_