My 10yo DD has just come on her period this evening (not her first one, but it's only about her third or fourth, so she's not exactly used to it yet).
While I've been sitting looking at MN it's suddenly dawned on me that she's got her dance show on Friday - 2 days time - when she's going to be right in the middle of her period. This is a fairly serious dance class she's in, which means a tight Lycra costume with no pants under. She's been lucky up until now and has not been on for a day she's had a class, even, but this has fallen on the most important event of the year for her dancing and I really don't know what to do.
She seems to me to be far too young for tampons, but then I suppose she will have to use one sometime soon if she's going to carry on dancing next year. And how do you even go about teaching a 10yo to use tampons? IIRC I was about 16/17 when I first used them and so I was a bit more aware of my body iyswim .
I wouldn't even suggest it but I really don't see another option; I know DD would be so embarrassed if she thought people could see her pad through her costume and her teacher would not exactly be thrilled either.
Argggh, fecking periods