Reply to I need period help....period

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "I need period help....period"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Mom of three girls here. Some really specific advice that no one tells you and you learn through experience or embarrassing lessons:

If your daughter wears a tampon while swimming she needs to change it after practice or  put on period underwear or a pad and make sure the tampon string is well-nested in whatever else she is wearing. The string from the tampon gets wet from the pool and that causes the blood to wick down the tampon--and, lo and behold if you have no other protection, it will quickly stain through your underwear and clothes--worse than even regular period blood because of all the water the tampon has absorbed.

for when you're shopping for her: Plastic tampon applicators are easier to use than cardboard.
Buy pads with wings! It's so easy for pads to shift and then you leak and have an embarrassing accident. Buy nighttime pads and the heavier duty period underwear (sort of like boy shorts) if you have someone with heavier cycles. She probably won't tell you, so buy a range of things--smaller/lighter teen pads and heavier pads, pantyliners, etc.--and wait and see which ones run out first.

buy a mattress pad and put on her bed under the sheets. Makes things so much easier to clean up. you can even do a waterproof cover and then a padded one over that that can be thrown in the wash. there are always going to be nighttime accidents. And having the stains on your mattress is embarrassing, this way you can just whisk off and wash.

-get  a small basin to throw things in to soak if she doesn't have time to wash. so many times you wake up in the morning to find stained sheets or underwear but you have no time to deal before school. 
-hydrogen peroxide lifts blood. So buy a bottle and keep on hand. it's kind of cool the way it foams up. good for things you can rinse, like mattresses or a sofa. also works well on dried blood on clothing.
-Advil is best for cramps, in my view, but a lot of kids have trouble swallowing. so get the smaller gel caps, rather than the cheap CVS over the counter tablets.

good luck dad!

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics