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

[Anonymous]

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.

Sorry, but no.

Don't be disgusting.

No one else wants to swim in next to someone bleeding all over the pool.

Either tampons or no swimming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skip tampons and go straight for menstrual cups.

I’m in my 40s and have had two kids and I can’t get the hang of menstrual cups. I’ve tried 2 different brands for several months each and they were painful, messy and/or leaked terribly. Buy a variety of tampons until you find one she will use.

Those are disgusting.

The poor person who has to use the public restroom following the person who just emptied one of those without yet washing their hands. Unsanitary and gross.

[Anonymous]

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.

Sorry but those 80s pads would have swollen up like a giant waterlogged diaper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I am going to have to say BS on this one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Not everyone has a slow spotty period like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I know!

This post will probably be deleted, but my thought is that she must be a former man who has never experienced the joy of a period.

2 tablespoons over 7 days?!?!

Bwahahahaha!

My arse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Sorry, but no.

Don't be disgusting.

No one else wants to swim in next to someone bleeding all over the pool.

Either tampons or no swimming.

You seem to be ignorant about the products PPs are discussing.

[Anonymous]

Ha! Our lifeguard just fished a pad out of the pool this evening!

FWIW, our pool has menstrual pads on the list of items that can’t be worn in the pool but I guess someone didn’t read carefully or DGAF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Sorry, but no.

Don't be disgusting.

No one else wants to swim in next to someone bleeding all over the pool.

Either tampons or no swimming.

You seem to be ignorant about the products PPs are discussing.

Be considerate of others.

Seriously.

If you want to swim without a tampon in, get your own pool.

Don't bring that into the public pools where others are swimming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skip tampons and go straight for menstrual cups.

I’m in my 40s and have had two kids and I can’t get the hang of menstrual cups. I’ve tried 2 different brands for several months each and they were painful, messy and/or leaked terribly. Buy a variety of tampons until you find one she will use.

Those are disgusting.

The poor person who has to use the public restroom following the person who just emptied one of those without yet washing their hands. Unsanitary and gross.

You know it's possible to plan around the need to empty in a public restroom. IMO they're a lot less "disgusting" (to quote you) than pads and tampons in the landfills and sewer system.

PP, have you watched tutorials to understand the different ways you can fold the cup and sit/stand while inserting? Same for everyone teaching their DD about tampons. Have them envision that it's pointing toward their lower back diagonally as they insert.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I know!

This post will probably be deleted, but my thought is that she must be a former man who has never experienced the joy of a period.

2 tablespoons over 7 days?!?!

Bwahahahaha!

My arse.

+2 mine is at least two cups! I wish!

[Anonymous]

PP cited one fact from the report, but out of context. She should have included the sentence next to it, too.

In a randomly selected group of premenopausal women, the most common amount of menstrual flow (measured in a laboratory from all collected tampons and pads) was about two tablespoons (30 ml) in a whole period (1;2). However the amount of flow was highly variable—it ranged from a spot to over two cups (540 ml) in one period!

[Anonymous]

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.

OB tampons do not have a plastic rod. You insert them with your finger. Maybe girls should try them first.

[Anonymous]

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.

That would be a swim diaper. Thinx is basically a washable diaper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That would be a swim diaper. Thinx is basically a washable diaper.

You realize swim diapers don’t absorb liquids, right? They are for poop only. So, no.