Tampons vs pads

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Registered: 01-04-2008
Tampons vs pads
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Fri, 01-04-2008 - 12:25pm

When I was a teenager my Mom would NOT let me use tampons. I didn't get to wear them until I had graduated high school and purchased them myself. Of course my Mom was and still is so very old fashion! We do live in the south, in the "Bible Belt", and that's how I was raised.

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Registered: 06-17-2003
Fri, 01-04-2008 - 4:49pm
ugh, I can't imagine sleeping in a pad.
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Registered: 02-25-2002
Fri, 01-04-2008 - 4:57pm
Not a problem, just one of my own personal hangups...one of my DD's can sleep for 12 hours straight if she has no school. Also, we are all heavy bleeders. Tampons just don't cut it. Personal preference is all.

Funny...I can't imagine sleeping in a tampon. But I only use them myself a few times a year. If my period is all but gone and I want to go in the pool.




Edited 1/4/2008 4:58 pm ET by themamas

 

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Registered: 06-17-2003
Fri, 01-04-2008 - 5:01pm
How do they keep the pad in place all night long?
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Registered: 01-04-2008
Fri, 01-04-2008 - 5:02pm
Thank you all for your input/advice! I will surely tell her that Mom and Nana were wrong about the virginity thing... That is what is so great about the WWW! I am glad I posted my concern and can feel at ease with letting her go ahead and use them.
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Registered: 02-25-2002
Fri, 01-04-2008 - 5:13pm

That's never been a problem. They have snug panties I guess.


When I was a girl, I used a safety pin to hold them. then my grandma gave me some old kinda girdle thing to wear over that. Very secue, but kinda like an iron maiden. Times sure have changed.

 

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Fri, 01-04-2008 - 5:48pm

My DD started at 11 and I don't think she's ever used a pad in her life... just started straight with tampons, and has never had a problem.


I think that old wives tale about virginity started because with the old bulky tampons, they could swell quite a lot if one was bleeding heavily, and people thought that removing them would rupture the hymen and then a girl wouldn't have "proof on the sheets" on her wedding night of her virginity.

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Registered: 08-17-2005
Fri, 01-04-2008 - 7:42pm

Just wanted to chime in that my dd16 also wears tampons versus pads and has for a couple of years now.

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Fri, 01-04-2008 - 7:45pm

"(I'm told by my nursing home residents - all now in their 80s and 90s - that at one time girls were discouraged from participating in strenuous sports, thinking that the hymen could be torn during such activity and they'd have no proof of virginity on their wedding night.)"

Oh...it's funny the things that come out of their mouths sometimes, isn't it? When we used to visit my dad in the nursing home we'd get some good laughs. His mom (my grandma) had Alzheimer's, and at our wedding DH's aunt was wearing a sari. When my grandma saw her she said, "Look at that woman. Some people will wear anything in church these days. That woman is wearing a tablecloth!"

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Registered: 08-20-2003
Fri, 01-04-2008 - 10:04pm

My mom never completely forbid me from using them, but she never really encouraged either.


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Registered: 07-08-2006
Fri, 01-04-2008 - 10:38pm

I believe that if my daughter is old enough to have a menstrual cycle then she need to take on the responsibility of how she would like to manage that (pads, tampons, hygiene, cramps, etc…).