To think “period cookies” is ridiculous…

Sounds like something the ancient Romans would have liked 😂

Next: My First UTI cake 🙄

Can't people just get on with their everyday lives anymore?

There have been shampoos like this around for ages, it is great that the taboos that have surrounded menopause are being tackled but needless to say it has also turned into a chance to flog stuff to women

🙄 to the poster who said that, not you. There was no need for that comment.

I posted on here about what I did when one of my nieces stated her periods while she was staying with me. I ran her a bath, then we went out for a nice lunch and I got her a 5 pack of dark knickers. I asked her if she wanted to tell her mum or would she rather I did, she chose the latter. To me this sounds a reasonable response but I got a nasty reply from another poster on here who asked me if my niece lacked arms so could not run her own bath and that I had overstepped my role by taking her out!

Ewwww. That is all.

I am all for the shame and secrecy being ended, when I started mine I had been given minimal information, wasn't even told that the blood came out of the vagina, how long the bleeding lasted or how to deal with it. I was so shocked and ashamed when mine started that I did not tell my mother for a few months and dealt with it by using loo roll and getting towels out of the machine at school. However biscuits is just mad.

Just ridiculous. It’s just too much. Everything is ‘celebrated’ ie turned into a money making/narcissistic exercise these days.

I’d rather have a packet of chocolate digestives.

They have completely lost the plot. 🤔

For a brave and artistic baker this could be a goldmine, but wjy should girls get all the fun? What about a pair of boxers with all jizz stains on them? Sort of a "Congratulations on your first wet dream" type thing.

Isn't that because hair thinning is a symptom of menopause?

Don't get me wrong I still think it's a load of marketing bollocks and there are natural ways to strengthen hair but that'll be why menopause shampoo exists

I agree. I’m sad and tbh a bit shocked to see mumsnetters calling this disgusting. It’s a new stage in life, to be welcomed.

Though I must admit I might hesitate to bite into a cake looking like blood-stained knickers!

I’d go for something red: piece of jewellery, pot plant, item of clothing (of her choice). For something edible, maybe a cake topped with strawberries?

I think the cookies are strange and unappealing. But I very much doubt, given they are to mark a first period, they are aimed at women. 11 and 12 year old girls are the most likely recipients I'd have thought.

I saw menopause shampoo in Boots the other day lol

I agree. I had serious issues and extreme embarrassment around my period for all of my teen years. I remember when I started my mum basically pulled me in to a room when I got home from school and I felt like it was an accusation. Really weird as my mum was very in to holistic health and women's health and my sister never had the same issues, but I just found the whole thing mortifying.

I can certainly see the value in celebrating it or acknowledging it in a healthy way, rather than having it hush hush and embarrassing

That's lovely 😍

I’d buy her a cake with, “Only 4 decades till the menopause,” iced across it.

Is there nothing that won’t be commercialised?? What’s next Happy Period banners and cards every month?

Yes. Really.

Crinnnge. Reminds me of a scene in a Judy Blume book where an older teen girl bakes a cake for a younger relative to commemorate her first period, and ices 'Congratulations' across the top. Way to alert absolutely everyone to what's happening... 🙄

The FB request makes it sound like some sort of 'period celebration' is being planned. 😣 Blimey, I didn't want anyone except my best friends to know when I started - I was even mortified that my mum told my dad! I get that it's a rite of passage, but... ugh, just no.

Good response. Some people deliberately misconstrue posts because they enjoy conflict. I didn’t take it that you used those words to describe periods.

They do Willie's and boobs in cakes, Halloween theme food like hotdogs looking cut finger etc. Period cookies? Doesn't sound far off tbh.
Have we lost the plot? Yes, definitely time ago. There are poop shape candy and toilet shape with sorbet in for the kids in the cady store.

This is absolutely ridiculous, yes, society has lost the plot! When I was a kid I grabbed a sanitary towel out of my drawer, put three spare ones in my school bag, downed a couple of paracetamol and got myself off to school.
Make a big deal out of something and that’s exactly what it’ll be.

The irony of the mum writing she wants the cookies so her daughters “ first period is not utterly horrific” - and she’s written it publicly on Facebook (I assume with name/profile photo attached) so that everybody knows! That’s more horrific to a teen than the period I would think.
Nobody should be ashamed of their periods, but if I was the daughter I would be mortified that it’s been announced on Facebook.

a chocolate cake to celebrate baby's first poo

rice pudding to celebrate your son's first sexual experience

a banana cake to celebrate your husband's erectile dysfunction

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