Ah, poor thing. :( When I had my first period the FIRST thing I did was ask my mom to teach me (verbally, just for anyone who is wondering) how to put in a tampon. She refused, saying it wasn't good for me to wear them and she certainly didn't want me to wear them with my FIRST period! She was still kind of a huge hippie and thought they were awful... which they are, but I didn't really care at that time of my life. She told me to wait until I'd had several periods first.
Then my first period ended up lasting an entire month... in the last week I was like, "Okay please mom, this is getting ridiculous" so she bought me a box. She demonstrated with her hands how to correctly insert it, talked about the angles and stuff and I figured it must be easy as pie. I must have read the directions ten times... but it still took me THE ENTIRE BOX of trial and error before I could get one in. I didn't spend very much (read: ANY) time down there prior to having a period. O_o
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Date: 2011-02-28 06:40 am (UTC)When I had my first period the FIRST thing I did was ask my mom to teach me (verbally, just for anyone who is wondering) how to put in a tampon. She refused, saying it wasn't good for me to wear them and she certainly didn't want me to wear them with my FIRST period! She was still kind of a huge hippie and thought they were awful... which they are, but I didn't really care at that time of my life. She told me to wait until I'd had several periods first.
Then my first period ended up lasting an entire month... in the last week I was like, "Okay please mom, this is getting ridiculous" so she bought me a box. She demonstrated with her hands how to correctly insert it, talked about the angles and stuff and I figured it must be easy as pie. I must have read the directions ten times... but it still took me THE ENTIRE BOX of trial and error before I could get one in. I didn't spend very much (read: ANY) time down there prior to having a period. O_o