So you let your tween/teen swim with a pad?

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read all of this, but I have taught six of my friend’s daughters (and my own) how to use a tampon. I think this special skill comes from the fact that I didn’t use them until I was much older myself, so I really had given it some thought. Hard to explain in a post, but here is how you walk a girl through it.

1.) buy the small plastic applicator tampons AND KY jelly.

2.) slather that baby at the top 1/3 or so with the KY. Do not use your hands or you will then be too slippery to hold it. The Mom can put the jelly on.

3.) face the toilet, one foot goes up on the seat, the other foot is on the floor. Have them clench and then unclench their vagina so they know the difference. Don’t have them try inserting tampon until they are in unclenched position!

4.) stick a finger in your vagina to get a sense of the angle , which is kind of toward your lower back. This step is helpful but not critical.

5.) Holding the tampon, angle it toward your lower back and glide it in. If she gets anxious, she can pause. When it’s in all the way so that she can no longer see the top part and just has her finger at the bottom, push in the applicator thingie all the way. Remove applicator. Show her where string is hanging. Tell her NOT TO PULL IT OUT until it’s saturated. If she pulls it out dry it will hurt and she will be reluctant to do this again. The main thing is getting it in far enough that first time.

Ok that’s it. Good luck all.

You gave a lot of thought to sticking some cotton up into your vagina?

Actually, this was quite helpful. If you weren't so busy being a witch, you'd see that.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here’s and I agree, as much as it sucks! She has her period a full seven days, about three of them on the heavier side. Aargh!!

Just to add - I didn’t use tampons until I lost my virginity between freshman and sophomore year in college. Hopefully the easier applicators will help my DD master tampons sooner.

honestly this is silly. It's not 1700. A slim tampon is MAYBE 20% the size of a hard penis. Plenty of virgins use them - like, all girls in early teens.

Still hurts the hymen in many teens.

Once. Get over it.

Tweens shouldn’t be made to feel like a failure if they are struggling to cram a plastic rod up their vagina. You are a horrible person.

My dd couldn’t get one in the first summer. There were lots of tear filled conversations through closed bathroom doors. The next summer, she figured it out pretty quickly.

I'm in my 40s and have 2 kids and the idea of using tampons gives me the heebiejeebies. So it's not just tweens that get freaked out by trying to cram a plastic rod into their vaginas.

38 with one kid and same. I just can't do it. The idea of having something inside me for hours on end grosses me out.

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My fear is that it will get lost in there or the string will break off.

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late thirties, three kids, I thought I was alone!

Me, too! Well older, and only two kids; but thought I was the only woman anti-tampon.
I have lost the string; and I hate the tugging sensation pulling it out. To be even more embarrassingly honest, I never figured out where women put that string when they're wearing a swimsuit.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read all of this, but I have taught six of my friend’s daughters (and my own) how to use a tampon. I think this special skill comes from the fact that I didn’t use them until I was much older myself, so I really had given it some thought. Hard to explain in a post, but here is how you walk a girl through it.

1.) buy the small plastic applicator tampons AND KY jelly.

2.) slather that baby at the top 1/3 or so with the KY. Do not use your hands or you will then be too slippery to hold it. The Mom can put the jelly on.

3.) face the toilet, one foot goes up on the seat, the other foot is on the floor. Have them clench and then unclench their vagina so they know the difference. Don’t have them try inserting tampon until they are in unclenched position!

4.) stick a finger in your vagina to get a sense of the angle , which is kind of toward your lower back. This step is helpful but not critical.

5.) Holding the tampon, angle it toward your lower back and glide it in. If she gets anxious, she can pause. When it’s in all the way so that she can no longer see the top part and just has her finger at the bottom, push in the applicator thingie all the way. Remove applicator. Show her where string is hanging. Tell her NOT TO PULL IT OUT until it’s saturated. If she pulls it out dry it will hurt and she will be reluctant to do this again. The main thing is getting it in far enough that first time.

Ok that’s it. Good luck all.

You gave a lot of thought to sticking some cotton up into your vagina?

Actually, this was quite helpful. If you weren't so busy being a witch, you'd see that.

I thought it was helpful, too. My mother never mentioned tampons, let alone explain or walk me through it. Though the one leg up approach actually never worked well for me.
I'm waiting for having to deal with this for the first time with my daughter. What's a typical age for a girl's first period these days, anyway? My daughter is going into 6th grade and that's when it happened for me.

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Anonymous wrote:But that’s what it is - a tablespoon of blood that trickles out over 5 days. It’s not much for most people.

Right, which is why the array of feminine hygiene products offered is so small, and why super absorbent pads and tampons are non-existent. And why women and girls never bleed through their protection, because there's so little blood lost anyway.

I wish the guy would quit posting here.

He clearly knows nothing about periods.

Why do you keep insisting it's a guy? Did this poster say s/he was male?

I'm one of the posters who pointed out that most sources say that total flow is 2-3 tablespoons. I am not the only poster making these statements. Here is another source that says that- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0072478/

apparently b/c I like to back up my statements with sources, rather than just going based on my own personal impression, at least one, possible multiple posters, have concluded that I am a male. I certainly am a menstruating woman, who started menstruating at age 12, but whatever- they are welcome to think whatever they like.

Well your sources are incorrect - there was SO much blood in my teens and even in adult years. same with my friend as a teen - hers went all over the floor looked like a murder.

JHC. Yes, and other women and teens have different experiences, so that ON AVERAGE, the amount of flow is 2-3 tablespoons, with wide variation.

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I just wanted to thank the woman who took the time to list out the steps above. DD is 16, a competitive swimmer, and still cannot put in a tampon. We have been to the doctor to make sure nothing is wrong, been to the nurse to help, brought in friends to help, had me in there with her - she can't get it in. She is an absolute basket case during her period (heavy) every month with stress. I am going to get the KY and pray that this works! Thank you again.

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Anonymous wrote:I just wanted to thank the woman who took the time to list out the steps above. DD is 16, a competitive swimmer, and still cannot put in a tampon. We have been to the doctor to make sure nothing is wrong, been to the nurse to help, brought in friends to help, had me in there with her - she can't get it in. She is an absolute basket case during her period (heavy) every month with stress. I am going to get the KY and pray that this works! Thank you again.

Can I ask what you have done so far? Does she just go without? Does the cold water stop the flow if it is light? TIA