How does DD deal with sleepover tonight with 1st period?

[Rollergirl11]

DD got her 1st period on Monday. It has been quite heavy and still shows no sign of abating today on Day 6. She has been amazing and taken it all in her stride this week. She is currently using the lillet teen sanitary towels. We have tried a few others but they all seem so big for her (she is 12 and still pretty small for her age).

Anyway, it is one of her best friends birthday today and she is having a big party and a sleepover afterwards. They have been looking forward to it for weeks. DD is panicking about how she will dispose of her sanitary towels at her friends house. She is too embarrassed to ask her friend about it (despite her friend already having started her periods for the last year). I have said that she should roll them up in some tissue and put them in one of those fragranced disposable bags and keep them in her bag and I will dispose of them when she gets back tomorrow. She thinks that that’s minging, and I don’t disagree but I don’t really know what else to suggest seeing as she’s adamant she doesn’t want to speak to her friend about it.

Does anyone have any bright ideas? 😳

Surely if her friend has started on her period then the bathroom will have a bin in it? Just use that?

Would you feel comfortable calling the mum for a quiet chat? I would happily tell you that we have bins in all bathrooms that she could use.

Yes I’d said that as that is what she’s doing here. But I think she’s just really self-conscious about it at the moment. Her friend has 2 older brothers and I think she’s worried about them finding them. I know it sounds ridiculous.

If the friend is having a sleepover with a few girls then no one would know who's pads they were if someone saw them in the bin- but I really doubt anyone would notice :) I remember being that age and the awkwardness of going to friends houses when on your period though!

I think it’s just because it’s her first one and she’s still very awkward in herself about it all and finds the whole thing icky and gross and is desperate for no-one to know! She’s not really thinking straight. I’ll try and persuade her to use the bin there.

Bless her. She’s already had to revise her outfit because she’s paranoid that her sanitary towel and pants will show through the dress she was planning to wear!

She should wrap the old pad in the wrapper of the next pad, not in tissue.

She can use nappy bags and just keep them in a carrier in the bottom of her bag if she doesn't want to use the bin.

Big pants and maybe cycling shorts under her outfit? Also bigger pads for nighttime, maybe not comfy but better protection for overnight.