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By Softcup

The menstrual cycle and menstruation are often not well understood by many women, even though dealing with it is something they are faced with on a regular basis.

The average menstrual cycle is 28 days long, but just as all women are different, so are our periods. Normal cycles can range anywhere from 21 to 35 days in adults and from 21 to 45 days in young teens.

Many women may have irregular or heavy periods, making their periods unpredictable or otherwise difficult. Many women with irregular or heavy periods manage them with menstrual cups, which are safe to use right before you start your period, which can be especially beneficial if your period is not quite as predictable as you’d like it to be.

The menstrual cycle timing described below is based off of the average 28-day cycle. If your menstrual cycle is a bit shorter or longer, the timing of certain occurrences in your cycle may vary.

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I will never forget the shopping trip that I took with my Mom when we were searching for my grade 8 Graduation dress. I had my period and I had the worst cramps I had ever experienced. I had already taken some medication for the pain, but it wasn’t doing anything for me. I should have listened better to my body because I ended up passing out on the change room floor because the pain was so intense! We ended up going to see the doctor after that and I was prescribed some special medication that helped me get through the terrible cramps each month.

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I discovered something a few years ago that has changed me and has made a huge difference in my life of PMS, pads and periods. If I’d only known it when I was a teen and just beginning my menstrual journey; oh, what a difference it would have made in my life.

I don’t want you to be like me; with almost 35 years of menstrual experience before I learned this important truth.

Here it is.

Embrace your cycle, every day of it. READ MORE… »

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My parents divorced when I was 11 and my mother moved out of the house. For a while my mother would buy me my monthly “supplies” and drop them off because it was too embarrassing to ask my father.

After a while, my mother said I was on my own to pick up these necessities. In an effort to be sly and avoid any conversation about my needs, I decided to quietly add them to the weekly grocery list for my dad. I wrote “pads” in the middle of the list. I thought for sure I’d be safe. And then the day of shopping came and there my father stood in front of me, list in hand, questioning what I meant by “pads”. Do you mean “sanitary napkins?” Uggghhhh….who says that? I was horrified!! “Yes” I replied, hoping that would be the end. To my dismay, it continued. “So, what do they look like, what color, what size?” It seemed to never end. Wait till he saw some of them had wings!! But once the horror ended, he did his fatherly duty and helped his daughter out, until I made it to high school and mustered the courage to buy them on my own. READ MORE… »

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My first period came when I was 11 years old, I was the first of my friends to get my period and I was especially pleased with myself, as the flat-chested girl in a group of girls who had developed early and large, this meant I wasn’t going to be left behind. In fact getting my period first meant to me that I was the first to reach womanhood, my chest may have been flat but I had made up for that with womanly hips and womanly things going on between my hips.

It was after gym class…in the winter the girls changing rooms would flood, so we had to get changed in the gym itself, I distinctly remember suddenly feeling warm and more wet than usual. I knew this had to be my period, so I changed back into my uniform with my back to the wall so no one would see blood on my underwear, and I kept my gym shorts on under my skirt. Between class I nipped to the bathroom, sure enough a big bright-red splodge of blood in my underwear and all over the toilet paper when I wiped. We had lovely bathrooms in that school, but no sanitary product vending machines, and I had no supplies with me, so I wrapped toilet paper round my underwear and went to my last class of the day. READ MORE… »

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Get Ready Puberty isn’t a four letter word, nor is it something you should feel confident about ignoring until your child is older. Puberty may be arriving sooner rather than later for your child. Even if your child begins developing at a later age than most, he or she is likely to have friends who begin puberty early in elementary school. Did you know that recent research (2010) found that more than 1 in 7 seven year old girls (15%) and more than 1 in 4 eight year old girls (27%) had already started puberty? What Is It? Puberty is the process of changing from a child to an adult, including the acquisition of reproductive capabilities. It is important to remember that this is not a single event; it is a multi-year process involving numerous milestones. During this stage of life children experience considerable change: physically, emotionally, cognitively and socially. When Does It Begin? Typically puberty begins between seven and fourteen years of age in girls and between nine and fourteen years of age in boys. Every child experiences an individualized pubertal timeline. Both genetics and environment play roles in the age of onset. Gender also plays a role, causing girls to start puberty a few years before boys. By the end of elementary school, most girls have begun developing and are taller than the boys. Within a few years the boys not only catch up, but also surpass the girls in average height. READ MORE… »

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By Carolyn West

I was 13 and wondering why my cousin who was six months younger than me had already gotten her period. While I was completely terrified of it, I still wondered what was wrong with me for not having it. While I was technically prepared, I knew WHAT was going to happen and I had a box of supplies under my bathroom sink, I was utterly unprepared emotionally. For anything.

At 13 I was still flat as a board. Not even tiny buds where breasts would grow. The only hair on my body was that at the top of my head. I was short for my age, the smallest one in all my classes since kindergarten. I was the only daughter in a house with brothers and a mother who didn’t share very much. I was alone. READ MORE… »

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By Carolyn West

I live in a house full of girls. Actually, I live in a house full of three girls and one guy. That guy? My husband. He’s not too happy to be living in a house full of girls.

Boys, admittedly, get a bad wrap. They are wilder, harder to potty train, break things, get dirty and have stinky rooms. Girls, on the other hand, are supposed to be sweet and loving and like to wear pretty pink clothes. For the most part, this is true. Until puberty.

Around the time a girl turns 9… or in my house, 6, they become these little creatures you don’t recognize. While they look cute and innocent, there are hormones running rampant behind the façade. Don’t let them fool you.

My house of girls is a little like an insane asylum. There are individual rooms where little girls lurk behind closed doors doing heavens know what. When you open a door, you never know what you’re going to get.

One minute they are loving and devoted daughters. The next minute they are banshees screaming at you and clawing to get out. This is the face of a tween.

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