Thinx got me thinking. How comfortable are you talking about periods IRL? If you have a daughter how do you feel about having the period talk?
This video made some interesting points. (Bit long though)
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I would definitely be comfortable having a matter-of-fact period talk. When I was a kid, my grandma brought me a book about menstruation she'd bought for a dime when her local library was getting rid of old books. I don't think she actually looked at it, but it was written in the 1950s and along the lines of "menstruation will make you weak and you may faint, so don't over-exert yourself housecleaning or ironing". I should dig that thing up the next time I'm home and donate it to a museum
Combine that with the fact that I went to a religious school that didn't have sex ed, only abstinence ed, and yeah, I was pretty much horrified of getting my first period.
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We talk about it all the time, it really isn't a big deal. My daughter already knows that big girls bleed once a month when they're not pregnant.
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I talk about mine a lot because I hate it. My LO knows what it is and I will continue to talk to her about it as she gets older. No shame.
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Periods are pretty much my favorite topic of conversation. Not really, but I am that person that everyone talks to about their bodies.
My LO is a boy and I have been thinking about how important it is to talk to our boys about periods and fertility. He's 1 so it will be a while before that's something we need to talk about. But I would like for him to understand it and know that is it a natural and healthy process, not a mystery.
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Perfectly comfortable talking to my girls about it! DD1 already knows about tampons but she's still a little young to understand periods but she knows what tampons are and that mommies need then sometimes. It's not a secret and nothing to be ashamed of.
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I'm super comfortable talking about it. My daughter knows that I bleed and that she will one day and that it's totally normal and okay.
I'm also on a mission to inform my pregnant friends that their first period postpartum will probably be a doozy. Nobody told me. I thought I was hemorrhaging, I called the doctor and my mom and they were both like, "Oh yeah, that's normal."
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@maddyz: it may not be THAT long! My DS started getting curious before he turned 2. At the ripe old age of three, he knows all about periods!
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@sometimesshesings: @maddyz: Filing this away for my 3.5 yo and still baking daughter
Maybe my boy will be one of the awesome ones who carry a few spare tampons and pads in case his friends who are girls need them. Haha!
Combine that with the fact that I went to a religious school that didn't have sex ed, only abstinence ed, and yeah, I was pretty much horrified of getting my first period.
Maybe my boy will be one of the awesome ones who carry a few spare tampons and pads in case his friends who are girls need them. Haha!
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