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

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Anonymous wrote:With the invention of Thinx and all that, I keep hoping someone will come up with a period panty for swimming, but...no.

There are.
One example:
https://www.modibodi.com/product-category/swim/?ph=4709195aa5a4e96bc2af900c

Well, it’s a start. But look at the prices!!

Do you have more examples?

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:How is this even a question???

A pad would be totally obvious in a bathing suite. Plus, disgusting. Plus would completely fill with water and not even absorb any bodily fluids. Yuck!

Actually, DD’s pad didn’t show - she was wearing a speedo. The pads are very thin nowadays. But she wore shorts over it and just put her feet in.

That's not swimming.

That makes no sense and just wear underwear and a pad. That isn't swimming. I'm thinking like team swimming. If she's not team swimming, no need for a suit/going to the pool that week or maybe talk to the doctor about the pill to reduce it.

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to offer a different perspective-- I can well remember the day when I was 12, and I got my period right before swim team practice. I tried to use a tampon and just could not. That whole summer I wore a pad in my speedo to practice. Nobody could tell. Its not like its that much blood- its not like it went everywhere. Seriously- ITS FINE. It is not different than having a tiny cut with a bandaid.

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Anonymous wrote:to offer a different perspective-- I can well remember the day when I was 12, and I got my period right before swim team practice. I tried to use a tampon and just could not. That whole summer I wore a pad in my speedo to practice. Nobody could tell. Its not like its that much blood- its not like it went everywhere. Seriously- ITS FINE. It is not different than having a tiny cut with a bandaid.

How is this possible??? Doesn't being in the water for a long time and all that moving/swimming around dislodge the pad? Surely, the pool water would undo the sticky adhesive side, no?

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Anonymous wrote:to offer a different perspective-- I can well remember the day when I was 12, and I got my period right before swim team practice. I tried to use a tampon and just could not. That whole summer I wore a pad in my speedo to practice. Nobody could tell. Its not like its that much blood- its not like it went everywhere. Seriously- ITS FINE. It is not different than having a tiny cut with a bandaid.

A tiny cut is different. A period is clots and tissue. "A tiny cut" is not.
Apples and oranges.

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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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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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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.

+3
My fear is that it will get lost in there or the string will break off.

38 yo again. I had one friend who got verified TSS when we were in college and another friend who forgot she had one in and put in another and then couldn't get the first one out and had to get it removed. I'd rather wear a thin pad any day.

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Anonymous wrote:to offer a different perspective-- I can well remember the day when I was 12, and I got my period right before swim team practice. I tried to use a tampon and just could not. That whole summer I wore a pad in my speedo to practice. Nobody could tell. Its not like its that much blood- its not like it went everywhere. Seriously- ITS FINE. It is not different than having a tiny cut with a bandaid.

A tiny cut is different. A period is clots and tissue. "A tiny cut" is not.
Apples and oranges.

Typical flow is 2 Tablespoons over the entire period- spread over 5-7 days. http://www.cemcor.ubc.ca/resources/very-heavy-menstrual-flow

So know you are not having clots and tissue gushing out- it comes out slowly.
Yes- the sticky side did wear off in the pool- but a speedo is pretty tight, there is really no where for it to go. If you are talking about a swim practice its probably no more than 60 minutes in the water- possibly less.

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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.

+3
My fear is that it will get lost in there or the string will break off.

+4

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

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Uh, no, that definitely would not have worked for me and my heavy periods with clots.

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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.

Not the PP, but really? You actually think ALL early teen girls use tampons? Nope. My 14 yo would LOVE to be able to use them, but she can't get them in. Plenty of her friends haven't been able to either. Maybe stop generalizing just because it was easy for *you*.

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Anonymous wrote:to offer a different perspective-- I can well remember the day when I was 12, and I got my period right before swim team practice. I tried to use a tampon and just could not. That whole summer I wore a pad in my speedo to practice. Nobody could tell. Its not like its that much blood- its not like it went everywhere. Seriously- ITS FINE. It is not different than having a tiny cut with a bandaid.

A tiny cut is different. A period is clots and tissue. "A tiny cut" is not.
Apples and oranges.

Typical flow is 2 Tablespoons over the entire period- spread over 5-7 days. http://www.cemcor.ubc.ca/resources/very-heavy-menstrual-flow

So know you are not having clots and tissue gushing out- it comes out slowly.
Yes- the sticky side did wear off in the pool- but a speedo is pretty tight, there is really no where for it to go. If you are talking about a swim practice its probably no more than 60 minutes in the water- possibly less.

Are you even a woman?
2 tablespoons? That can happen in about 10 minutes.

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

You could benefit from learning about your own anatomy some. It can't get "lost" in there, stick your finger up there and you will see for yourself.