Child dealing with period on residential - Recommendations please!

[Peggy0907]

DD is 10 and is more than likely going to be on her period during her school residential. She's going for 4 nights. She already uses period knickers so I will make sure to send her with enough to get her through the whole time she's there. I'm looking for recommendations for a way for her to store the used knickers discreetly. Also looking for period swimwear, preferably bikini bottoms that she can wear under her usual costume.
Anything else I need to think about? School will administer pain relief if she needs it.

But as soon as you climb out of the pool it will.

Weird that some posters are so confidently telling others that bleeding stops in water. Maybe it does stop for them, but are they just assuming the posters saying they do bleed in water are lying? I certainly bleed in water.

Anyhoo, I agree with a PP that disposables might be the best option here.

Laid in the bath right now which is a shade of pink with occasional plumes of bright red.

Clearly my uterus/ vagina is defective... can I return it to the manufacturer?

I'm with you on this one #wheresmyrefund.

Yep I definitely bleed in water
V. Heavy periods though with regular flooding so I'm guessing lots of women don't have that experience in the first place so it would be a foreign concept to them

Well maybe worked for you but surely you have the capacity to know it may not work for everyone?

This is not good advice, DD could be outside the pool standing around for a while before or afterwards and it could certainly be an issue then. Period swimwear will do the job.

If your period is heavy enough you will bleed in water. I speak from experience

@daisypond

No, it doesn’t.

So the posters who say that they have experienced bleeding in water are lying are they?

I had a horrible experience of doing so at school. I'm not making it up.

Did you ask your daughter if she'd like the option of taking pills to delay her period?

It seems an awful lot to have to deal with on a trip away at her age and may well leave her feeling quite stressed rather than enjoying the week?

Can you please believe us that for some of us it does come out during a swim or in the bath? Not everyones period is the same. I have heavy flooding. You clearly don't.

It's interesting to hear that normal period pants under the swimsuit could work, that would certainly make things easier!

I meant bikini bottoms swimmers sorry if that was me confusing things

Just to say that last year I bought DD1 period bikini bottoms from Primark.

DD2 started her periods while away (after we left her with her aunty) and DD1 and he4 cousin sorted her out.

DD1 (who lives in Primark) has been tasked with finding more this year

No I haven't asked her, I'm sure if I tell her there's a medicine you can take to stop your period she'd want it every month! I'm sure it's a great choice for some people but I've looked in to it and I'm not comfortable with the potential side effects and effect on subsequent periods. It could be absolutely fine, but not a risk I want to take when I know that as long as she has the right tools if you like, then she will cope fine. She's got many, many years of dealing with periods ahead and she won't be able to delay it every time she wants to go swimming etc. Perhaps when she's a bit older it's something I can discuss with her, when she can make a fully informed decision.

On thing about these residential trips is often it's not actual swimming they are doing, its swimwear under a wetsuit for water sports, raft building, kayaking, padelboarding, dingy sailing.

Basically stuff where you'll stay out the water 90% of the time but need to be prepared for a soaking.

Op would tampax be the answer for the water stuff. I'm just thinking wet period pants probably aren't going to be that comfortable under a wetsuit (but I've never used them so dont know).

Just give her a carrier bag for her used ones. That she keeps in her case

Oh god, I was told you don't bleed in water....the humiliation has never been forgotten. Some of us really do.
I used to do a lot of diving, and remember once reading an article that was hypothesising if shark attacks are more likely if swimming whilst on your period, I have no idea if the researchers ever got statistical data, but I remember a group of us discussing it before a wreck dive.

This is exactly what we did for DD1 for her school residential at that age. Just lots of changes and zip lock bags and you can deal with it all when she gets home.

This definitely

It does ....I had a very embarrassing experience once

What utter nonsense! My period certainly comes out in water.

OP re strage I’d suggest you give her lots of ziplock / sandwich bags and she can seal each pair in as she needs to and then put the sealed bags into a waterproof bag the sort that divers use for their wet kit.

Re swimming honestly I’d soeak to the staff and suggest she doesn’t do swimming if she’s on her period. I may be out of date but I simply don’t believe anything other than a tampon can hold a period during swimming and obviously age ten is too young for a tampon. I once had to deal with a toddler whose ‘watertight swim nappy’ completely failed to hold in his poo during a swim session so I’m quite suspicious anout these products now.

my daughter is due to go away on her residential in may . she is also due to have a period she wears the modi shorts too . she will be taking modi bikini /swimsuit . also i am pack waterproof bags so she can put a pair in each one and then a wet bag to put them all in . i'm not comfortable her taking meds to stop her periods just yet, but also she's autistic , takes other medication so it's just not an option .

@Ladyofthesea how judgemental, I've read the comments and have learnt that yes for a lot of women they bleed in water, as for heavy periods you have no idea. I have severe endometriosis and have had iron replacement my whole menstrual life for IRon deficiency anemia. My endometriosis is so severe it has made me infertile and the gynae doctor is trying to convince me to have a hysterectomy at 38. So yes I do understand what it's like to bleed heavily on my period. I've been lucky enough to never have it affected me in swimming, I rarely have a bath (I shower) so can't speak for it happening there

Haven't read the full thread so someone might have already recommended this... but I use reusable nappies and the best option for a wet bag is a karimor dry bag - completely waterproof - much cheaper than alternatives I have tried and completely waterproof as designed for camping. Currently on offer in sports direct www.sportsdirect.com/karrimor-dry-bag-784313#colcode=78431325.

I don't think I'd worry about special bags. Freezer /.sandwich bags and into a bin bag with the rest of her dirty clothes.

It also avoids her having to explain to the other girls what the special bag is for.

The kids stuff get really filthy on the residential hence bin bag keeps it all together.