dd1 has grown up! Quick question please...

[myturn]

dd1, who is 13, has just started her period properly today Hah, months of angst, tantrums and drama are suddenly explained!

So a quick question to all you experienced mothers of teenage girls. What pad would you recommend? She is teeny, so needs something very light but obviously with enough absorbency. Thanks.

(I am sure she will appreciate me sharing this information with the world wide web... )

Thanks kama (hi btw)

Feel rather emotional about this really... the first of my girls and all that! It's been threatening for a while and strangely after about a year of rampant homrones, now that it's happened she's been amazingly unhormonal! No how is that?

Meant, NOW how is that?

Oops and HORMONES. I think I need to go to bed

No advice but hey, congrats to your DD if that is the right thing to do/say??

Aw thanks ghosty.

Eeerrmmm, can you hug a ghost?

myturn..... think of it as something to celebrate.

When each of my DDs started, I hugged and kissed them and told them how wonderful and exciting it was. (inside I felt very emotional, just like you) But it really is wonderful, this slow passing from girlhood to womanhood, all happending with you at her side.
Make a big fuss of her... take her out for some special mum/daughter time. I did with mine because I wanted them to think of the time they started their periods as an exciting time!

On a practical note, both DDs started out with small ultra type pads. Within the first period DD2 started using tampax (her choice, not mine!). She just pinched some of her sisters and casually asked me to buy some for her! I was flabergasted, tbh. She just said she was always going to try them straight away and 'Don't fuss, Mum!'

Helliebean, having a mother/daughter day out is a lovely idea. I'll do that. Not today though - she's up to her eyes with a cold, poor thing. But once she's better.

Thanks for the advice re pads. Got her some extra thin ones and they (and she) seem to be fine.

Awwww! Poor thing with a cold as well! Hope you fit in some special time together when she feels better.
My DD2 hated starting periods.... hence the tampax I think. I wouldn't encourage it TBH... she just wanted it all to feel invisible I think and it is her body.... so ultra thin pads are the way to go.

My DD (11) started her periods four months ago...I bought her a selection of pads and after trying them all she said that she preferred 'Always' pads as they absorbed the blood so that she couldn't see it.They are also super thin and come in a variety of different lengths and with/without wings.

DD is 13, but started periods first in her class at 10, in primary school .

definitely prefers Always - dark green for daytime, purple for night (or the other way round - one is longer so better for nighttime); both have wings. I bought her the new 'Silk' ones recently and she said they were a waste of extra money couldn't tell the difference from the ordinary ones (but I think she appreciated the thought).

DO tell her what you want her to do/how to cope when she gets blood on her knickers and make it clear to her that this does happen occasionally and it's not the end of the world.