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[quote=Anonymous]Every month mommy gets what she calls her period.  It's the body's way of getting ready for a woman to make a baby.  There's a part of the body below the tummy called the uterus.  Each month it gets ready by growing thick in case a baby needs to grow there.  When a baby doesn't start growing, which isn't going to happen for us since we're happy with just you (and your brother, sister, whatever), every month it goes away.  When it comes off, it looks like blood but it isn't.  It's my uterine lining coming off.  Sometimes I wear a pad in my panties to catch it so that it doesn't get on my clothes.  Sometimes I put something called a tampon inside me to catch it before it comes out.  It doesn't hurt me when it comes out but sometimes I get a tummy ache or a headache at the same time of the month.

This is basically what I have said to my kids since they were 2-3 years old.  At first it's gibberish to them, but at some point it sinks in.  DD is now 8 and I'm starting to talk to her about other aspects of it.  DS is 5 and is only starting to understand/remember.  I just had an endometrial ablation a few months ago and so am going to talk to DD about that at some point soon.[/quote]

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