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I started at summer camp when I was 12. My school had a program for the girls in 3rd grade where we learned all about menstruating. At the time, being so young... I had though they were going to GIVE us our first period.. haha!
Being at summer camp and starting was a little difficult and odd. But the most odd part was there were four of us girls in the same cabin, that same week.. that allll started for the first time!!! Our counselors were in hell lol...
My mom came out to camp and literally the entire back seat of her car was LOADED with products. Tampons, pads, disposable underware... you name it, she bought it and brought it. Looking back I think it made her more uncomfortable than me cause she had never talked to me about any of those things either. So when it finally happened... I didn't feel I needed her help and she didn't know whether to take me seriously or be a comforting mommy.... It kind of hurt her that I was all of a sudden so grown up and didn't want to talk to her about any of the things going on with my body. I felt like it was weird to cause we never had before I started the journey, so why now?
My advice is to definitely talk to her about it. I learned how to put a tampon in from my cabin mates and counselors. Made for some wonderful memories as I'm still involved with this summer camp... but I would've liked it to have been more of a bonding experience with my mother. Don't push the issue, but definitely don't wait until one day you get a call from school, or her friends mother or a summer camp! lol.. saying she started....until you speak to your daughter. Good luck! And congrats..to you and her, eventually. This is a great time in both of your lives.
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