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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This would be a case where I would talk to the teacher or director of the ballet school.[/quote]

NP, but my daughter would be mortified if I did something like this. True, it’s a medical issue, but it wouldn’t feel that way to her.

As a society, we’ve made some progress in erasing menstrual stigma, but still, not many teenage girls would feel comfortable having adults, (other than their doctor) discussing the details of their periods.

If OP’s daughter is OK with it, then that’s fabulous, maybe we’ve made more progress than I thought. But I don’t think mine would be. [/quote]

Even if OP’s DD had the confidence to talk about it, a dance school that doesn’t already have wiggle room on dress code is not going to be open-minded about working around a girl’s heavy period. In my experience, sadly, they would take an old-fashioned view that heavy period=too fat=not a dancer, even though that is not accurate at all. And then they would consciously or unconsciously begin the weed-out process.

In a similar situation, we got the feedback “if you can’t make it work, this might not be the place for you.”

Anyway, dance or not, this sounds like something that gets in the way of everyday life and is worth a visit to the doctor.[/quote]

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