How do I teach my Toddler about Periods????

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Hi, I am new to this and was wondering if there was anyone out there with any tips or advice for my.
It is a bit embarrassing I'm not sure what to tell my daughter about my periods, we have always been really open and she will quite happily follow me to the bathroom and talk to me when I am on the loo. I have just started having periods again after stopping breastfeeding, with my pregnancy and my feeding it has been 2 years since I last had a period so she was too young to notice then.
She has started playing with my pads and things and thinks they are great stickers!!! but has yet to see anything else. What should I tell her???

I would be really grateful for any advice.
I dont want to do anything to make her scared at this delicate stage in her development.

Tell her about it and the next time you are in Tesco, she will turn to the 25 yr old bloke behind you in the queue and tell him that every month mummys bottom bleeds and she feeds it cotton wool until it stops and she'll possibly ask him if his bottom bleeds too.

as a rule I only explain what she asks (dd 2.7) she has noticed I use pads but apart from asking what they are she wasn't interested.
she has seen the blood but has not asked

'it is for mummy's period' seems good enough so far

when she does I will explain plainly and simply

Mine have all coped well with the a simple explanation along the lines of what Harpsi suggested. What's to be scared about. You say this is something grown up ladies have, not this is something that will happen to you. Periods are normal bodily functions after all.

don't explain anything

just say

they're for ladies

she's only 2

This is true, Hecate Knows. And thereafter, contrary to all the physical laws of chance, you will see him every single day of your life.

Hecate - think how that conversation would brighten the day of everyone within earshot. Positively a public service.

True.
I'd pay to hear it (and to see her face)

Whats a MoonCup?? I have never heard of one.
Thanks for all the advice.
By they way ComeOVeneer does it matter if this is the only reason I joined MN? Sorry my issue seems trivial to you!!

I know you have had tons of advice, but I think just a simple "adult women sometimes have what's called a period every month" type thing would just about cover it for a 3 1/2 year old, I don't think it should be swept under the carpet if she actually asks, it's nothing to be ashamed of.

Mooncup

She hasn't asked and she hasn't seen any blood so you don't need to tell her anything.

If she asks, give her a very basic explanation but she may well not. In the meantime, tell her the "stickers" are yours and to leave them alone. I thought tampons were chalk until I was about 6, dispite going in the loo with my mum when I was small, so who knows when your daughter will notice anything else is going on.

Why do you feel the need to tell her?

When she is older she will ask you. tell her then.

It isn't a case of hiding things, it is a case of providing the information that they need when they ask for it, not when you feel the need to tell them.