For me, it was starting my period at 10, way before any of my friends, when I barely knew what a period was, let alone how to manage the heavy bleeding, headaches, and cramps that had me doubled over in pain each month.
Normalizing periods - and all that comes with them - is mission critical for parents and caregivers so that your child knows there is nothing abnormal, 'wrong,' or 'dirty' about their body's natural functions.
The bulky maxi pads with belts and wings of generations past have been replaced by options that are more comfortable and more sustainable than what you probably used growing up.
In many ways, we've sorta come full circle, as Lara Freidenfelds, a historian of health, reproduction, and parenting, noted in her 2009 book The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America.
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