I am going to apologise for the TMI right now, but to put it bluntly I have my periods at the moment and well as any mother would know, going to the toilet on your lonesome is a rare occurrence. No matter how hard I try I am joined by at least one child once a day. So of course at this time of the month questions do seem to pop up from Mahli. Somehow Caden hasn't noticed anything really, he has seen my pads and tampons before when we are unpacking the shopping etc, but hadn't said anything. Mahli has always referred to them as Mummy's Nappies... lovely hey?!
Well last night she busted into my en-suite as I was getting undressed to have a shower (she was supposed to be in bed!) and she got all worried and asked "why is there blood Mummy"?
I simply said that I have my period at the moment and everything was fine and she seemed okay with this. But it got me thinking about having to explain it in more details. I am going to let her be my guide in when and how we talk about it, but I do know that I don't want to just ignore the issue like my mother did. I learnt about periods etc from school, it was never never talked about at home. When I got my period at 11 (almost 12) my mother just handed me some pads and left it at that. I want things to be different for Mahli. I want her to feel like she is able to talk to me about anything.
Have you had the girl talk with your daughter, what age do you think you should start talking about periods and puberty? Or do you live in a house of boys?
Did your mother talk to you about periods?
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