I can vividly remember the day I got my first period. I was 15, it was summertime, and, of course, I was wearing a pair of crisp white jeans when I felt that throbbing flow. Too ashamed to disturb my ...

A first menstrual cycle usually occurs between the ages of 10 and 16 with the average age of a first period being 12.4 years old. That’s a pretty wide range, so how do you know when your kid needs ...

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Before your daughter has her first period, you will give her the information she needs to be ready. But it is important to provide the stuff she needs, too. Keeping a “first period kit” — one you make ...