my dd started in feb aged 9, and i have had to go to town on the explaining and preparing front.
black knickers, that's my best advice! The blood still upsets my dd, so the less she can see leakage wise the better. Maybe get her a book periods too?
DD has a paracetamol capsule, and an ibuprofen capsule. Much more quickly absorbed that a tablet. I but supermarket own brand ones.
The whole organisation of periods, down to, sitting down on loo before taking off pants, has taken a while for my dd. We went thru lotsof different pads too. The thin ones (and they are most common) tend to leak on the first heavy days, so we have settled, once again on supermarket own brands ones, the puffier type, like they had when i was a teen.
my dd asks for painkillers, i told her from the start that periods can hurt and to go as long as possible before taking one. She is very sensitive to pain, so i had to help her over the months do a think before taking something, so that she only has them when it's a bit much.
we have had some bad pains, but the last two periods have been normalish to my mind.