Would you send 11yr old to camp with 1st period?

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Miss 11 has just started her first ever period and her first ever school camp starts on Tuesday.
Camp will be 4 nights away and involve lots of swimming and kayaking etc...

She's quite emotionally young and not a practical girl at all.
I am thinking of all the worst case scenarios and what a logistical nightmare it might be for her.
She will be about 2 hours away from home.

I'm thinking to keep her home on Tuesday and drop her off at camp on Wednesday (hoping it's finished by then!) or am I completely over thinking it and she should just go to camp?

Again, it's her first period and it's started today (Sunday)

Would love opinions and feedback on what you would do in this situation x

An early lesson that women have it tough. But they are also awesome and support each other like this

If she wants to go let her go. You will both regret it otherwise.

Swimsuit, thick wetsuits in river and lake water (note it's spring where you are) will be fine by day 3 or 4 for a young girl. My girls have done this many times as we kayak and dinghy sail.

Echo the advice of dark clothing, lots of pads, periods pants, pant liners, disposal bags. My girls use the long length pads at night but make sure she has dark pyjamas.

Speak to the teacher, they will have had this scenario before. See if your DD will tell her BF so she can help her if need be. They're usually quite excited about it at that age (that soon wears off!!) I remember my DD2 saying when one of her friends started she used to make DD and another friend come to the toilets at school with her and talk loudly snd laugh so no-one would hear her unwrapping her pads

Are they allowed phones with them so she can talk to you about anything shes a bit unsure of? Like whether period is now finished or not? Those first few periods can be a bit unpredictable. Tuesday is another couple of days away so you'll have been able to teach her quite a lot about "period management" in that time.

Hope you're DD has a great time at camp!

I don’t know if this helps, OP, but my first period was only 2/3 days of minor bleeding. Any chance your DD's might be similar?

I realise from reading this thread that most young girls have very light first periods - but unfortunately for me, I've had endometriosis since my first period so it was an absolute bloodbath :/ I couldn't have gone to a camp. In fact I didn't go near a swimming pool for years because I just didn't trust my body anymore. I know the chances of that are rare but it's not a guarantee that just because a girl is young, she'll have an easy ride with her first periods.

@TitoMojito the Ops DD will be several days into her period by the time she goes away and they will have a fair idea of the flow.
Although not perfect by any means periods are less taboo and most Dr's will prescribe something to help whether that's a contraceptive pill or other medications to slow the flow. Obviously it doesn't work for everyone nor is every Dr so helpful but things are much better than they were years ago.