woudl you go swimming if you are having a period

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and wear a pad.
dd just started today but has swimming tomrrow

mention of jaws is enough to convince me

Trinity*, did you mean cosset?

oh please no no no - nasty trickle down leg will cause years of embarrassment.
Tampons or no swimming that is the only choice.
I remember in my early menstruating days thinking my period had ended over night as there was nothing on the pad in the morning and much to my horror when I got out of the car an hour later there was a big soggy mess. We were travelling to my grandparents and I had to get out a change of clothes and change in the toilet on a ferry. Mortifying - I still cringe thinking about it and that was 20 odd years ago!

to add insult to injury - today her friends invited her swimming