My daughter started her monthly…

I think the baskets are such a sweet idea! It's a big life change to our bodies at such a young age, I don't think it's doing much to want to try and make it a little easier on her! She's lucky to have a mom who cares so much about it 🫶🏻

I plan on doing the same, great job ☺️ When I started mine my mom and I hugged for a long time. It was honestly a special moment.

When I got my first period my mum and aunts took me out to a dessert place that night. We didn’t discuss why we were there but I knew it was because of that. It was just a nice girly evening and a really nice memory. I think a care basket would be lovely. Maybe just leave it in her room with a little note so it’s not so confronting

I always said i would celebrate with my daughter and take her supplies shopping and show her about hygiene .

My mum was exactly like this when I started my period. I started mine at school, got really upset about it so they called my mum to come pick me up, when we got home she had got me pads and chocolates and gave me £5 which was a lot of monwy 20 years ago.

I started my period the moment my dad was trying to rush my siblings and me out the door to go to the bank. I sucked it up and hoped it would be fine until I got home and told my mum. My mum wasn’t all that.. anything. I think it’s a lovely gesture from you to her. Go for it!

I think that is a great idea. She’ll remember that forever. 🩷

If she is close enough and open enough with you that she called crying and asking for you then she would probably really appreciate a gift like that. I was very close to my mom at that age (still am) and she made me brownies, bought me a few kinds of pads, and got me a plushie with a heat pack inside it when I started my period.

My daughter was older when her cycle started (14, I was 15) but every month we still do a care package with her favorite chips, a chocolate bar, and her favorite Snapple. We make extra high protein dinners. The first period we did get her a small plush for comfort. She still keeps it clipped on her bag at 17.

My husband empathizes with how painful and truly debilitating my periods are and extends that courtesy to our daughter because he also grew up with two sisters. So he definitely knows it's a lot. If a small package lets her know we care, why not? She definitely cried and felt a way about it at first because periods come with some stigma publicly, so we had to help her unlearn that and accept it as normal now we just get a "welp, time for my dad package." When she starts and we don't fuss over it or make her feel gross about nature. It helped her feel no shame over her cycles which is such a contrast to how my mom handled things.

Have extra grace and be more on top of nutritious food! She'll be fine.

Don’t ask men about women concerns lol they know nothing. I would absolutely do the care basket I would’ve loved to receive one as a teen and I regret not doing one for my teen girls now when they did get their period. Probably not the soda but little girly things. I’d probably add period undies too as my teens use it at night like I do we just rinse it in the shower at our foot and chuck it in the wash. They do use cloth pads for home they have the cutest prints too

Absolutely do one for her, I’d get her all the period products you can afford to help her see what her options are and what she’d feel most comfortable using, get all her favourite things and just be there for her. It’s scary when you get your first, when I started mine I didn’t get anything like that, I didn’t even tell anyone I just took one of my mum’s pads and got on with it and went out and bought my own, my mum never had the talk with me.
I’m betting your daughter would really appreciate it - well done mum!!!

Don’t forget the ibuprofen

I would make her a care basket, but don't take it to her at school. Just leave it at home to give her

What your thinking to do is great! Your husband is a men so don’t listen to his advice lol 😂. Women know better!

Its a big deal! Its such a moment of pride but still so scary. My mom was so great about it, and while she gave me puberty books and pads and a fancy chocolate bar, the thing i was most grateful for was that she created an environment where i knew i could come to her any time about any question. Id read the books that covered the basics, and she would always stop what she was doing to give me her full attention. No judgement, never made me feel icky, and we never stopped hqving mini conversations about puberty and sex and pleasure and contraception options, consent, and how to tell when im emotionally ready to start having sex.