Peacocks

[chickenlover]

My 11 year old had just started her period!!!!! Making me feel very old, but luckely we had already discussed it, so it didnt come as too much of a shock, might even have a family party to celebrate!!

[Martin B]

There seems to be something in the air on this forum, everybodys children seem to be breaking into adoulescence on the same weekend.

[Beauty-Box]

My 11 year old had just started her period!!!!! Making me feel very old, but luckely we had already discussed it, so it didnt come as too much of a shock, might even have a family party to celebrate!!

 

My 11 year old daughter started hers a couple of months ago. It made me feel old too! I felt like a bad mum because she did'nt tell me, she text her gran (My mother-in-law) instead!

[Cinnamon]

My girls started at 11 & 12, & now the 3 of us seem to have synchronised periods, which make life a lot of fun at our house

[Louise]

Are these things starting younger these days

 

When I was at school the norm was 13/14

[Lesley]

Yes, they are Louise - better nutrition and early development.

[Egluntyne]

It happens more and more in Y's 5 and 6 now.

 

All the more reason to make sure they know what to expect.

[Louise]

Blimey poor things it was bad enough at 13/14 I can't imagine a couple more years of it

[Goosey Lucy]

It happens more and more in Y's 5 and 6 now.

 

All the more reason to make sure they know what to expect.

 

Well said, Egluntine, I couldn't agree more.

[tenzin]

My little girl is only 4 , this is a reminder of what lies ahead , it must be a real shock for young girls , when it happens ..

[feemcg]

My middle daughter, despite our little chats, told her big sister then her dad's girlfriend

[tenzin]

That must be tough

So she told them before you ?

[Aunty e]

I didn't tell my mum for months (I was at boarding school). It was pretty traumatic, and until I got brave enough to talk to her about it, I thought it was normal for them to last months at a time. Thank heaven for the Pill. My friend didn't start until she was 16, SO jealous. I hated it, and I hated my boobs. It's not fun having a bra when you're nine. I'd have been quite happy to be fed a little less and not have had the boobs.

 

I'm pretty cool with it all now though.

[chickencam]

My youngest is 9 and already showing signs of growing up Apparently it is considered within the normal range for a girl to start her period at any age from 9 to 16.

 

She is at least aware of such thing because of older sister. I was worried that she might be early but she was 12.5 and I was 12 so we will wait and see.

 

I've always been really open with my girls, I leant about it all at school only a month before it happened to me and when I finally took the courage to tell my mum her reply was oh dear I knew it would happen one day. Well she hadn't bothered telling me despite a bad experience herself.

[little chickadee]

My Gran was pretty typical of what happened to girls in "the old days" She started quite early, but didn't know anything about and it and thought she was dying! I'm so glad we're a bit more open about such things now. It must be terrifying. I started when on a school trip to France which was pretty horrid - you need your mum around really. Must be horrible to happen at boarding school. (but I suppose there's lots of other girls around to talk to)

[Tina C]

We have a few years to go yet - but when should we start talking about it? Hopefully it will come naturally as part of the 'how babies are made' chat. But 9????? Layla is 6, so we have a few years to go, but she is a big girl so no doubt she will be one of the early developers (I was).

[chickenlover]

well, she is being quite brave and very grown up about it, we had a chat about whether any other girls in her class had their periods, it turns out only one who is younger than my daughter and she uses tampons

I explained to my daughter that tampons can make life easier but i think they are not for young girls, she didnt seem too happy about this until i showed her the little instuction booklet that comes with a box of tampons and she quickly changed her mind and agreed with me I definatly agree with all your comments about girls starting their periods earlier and parents being more open about this kind of thing, my mum was so good about it and didnt make a fuss, i cant even remember starting mine!! With 3 girls and myself my hubbie and son said last night they need to find some where else to live once the other 2 start their periods!!

[chickenlover]

Allknowingsuperchicken, i personally think the sooner you have the TALK with girls the better, i think once they get to a certain age ie 9/10 they just go all silly and dont want to talk about it, so the sooner you start to think about how to go about it the better.

[Guest]

The hospital had to force mine, to stop me growing, or I'd have been god knows how tall!

 

Until you hit puberty your leg bones don't fuse (or something) and you keep growing and growing and growing so they put me on the pill to force my period to start (as I was already very tall due to the Marfans), but I was allergic to the oestrogen(sp?) in the pill and it made me vomit every morning, I had to take it for 12 months, til my bones fused! 12 months of vomiting every morning, nice! (13 years old, 6 foot 1" and 7 1/2 stone, you could have hung things off my hip bones!)

 

I'd kill to be that thin again, well perhaps not quite that thin!

 

I remember being mortified and embarrassed when it did happen and my dad saying "my little girl's a woman" made it worse. I wanted the ground to open up! Poor dad, he was only trying to be comforting.

 

my first one was the day after I'd been horse riding and I thought I had internal injuries after a particularly bumpy ride, even though I knew what to expect, it was still a big shock!

 

So, is the done thing these days to have parties? Sounds very 'American' but probably a good idea, presents always help to take your mind off things!

Edited November 26, 2007 by Guest

[Guest]

I explained to my daughter that tampons can make life easier but i think they are not for young girls, :

 

that's exactly what my mum said to me at the time but that was in the days when you had to wear a belt for towels, the older girls on here will know what I mean, awful things!

[Cate in NZ]

I've not heard of parties , but what the heck, any excuse to party

 

I'd tried to be open with my children from them being quite little, so I think we'd probably covered most things early on, and daughter certainly knew what to expect. Not least because most of her friends started well before, she was almost 14.

 

I just got a text at work to tell me, followed by "don't make a fuss" , and she's played it all very low key since, no big deal, no problems, nothing to talk about. She's very private

[feemcg]

As I said on another thread Anna's 'little talk' came a few months ago when I found her schoolbag stuffed with tampons (to play with at school, apparently!) - she was 7 at the time . She was totally unfazed and disappointed I hadn't told her sooner

[Guest]

My youngest is 9 and already showing signs of growing up Apparently it is considered within the normal range for a girl to start her period at any age from 9 to 16.

 

*prays for a 'late starter'*

 

I was 13 when I started, and on holiday with my parents in the caravan. My mother was so chuffed, she announced the news to all and sundry in the toilet block, and she rushed back to me with the necessary 'equipment'. I was mortified at the time, and vowed to be far more laid back about it all if I ever had a daughter. When Caitlin starts, I plan to sit back, pour a large glass of red, and have a good weep at the passing of her childhood, and the beginning of monthly teenage PMT.

[Louise]

I just hope for your sake it is not too bad

 

Such a sweet girl she can't possibly be too bad

 

As well as the mood swings I used to pass out and vomit every month for the first couple of years then I discovered the pill

 

I don't take it now and still have some corking months which is when I discovered that the you'll grow out of it thing is a lie

[Guest]

Such a sweet girl she can't possibly be too bad

 

 

That daughter of mine has the devil in her somedays - she was on her best behaviour they day we met you and Lesley! I wonder sometimes if she is already in possesion of a full set of girlie hormones, that set her off every few weeks.....

 

Imagine if this baby is a girl as well - the three of us hormonal at once. Poor chookiehubbie!