To protect the girl from mental injuries, she must know in advance the basic information about the occurrence of the first menstruation. How to tell the girl about menstruation, each family decides in its own way, depending on the character and emotionality of the girl. You need to talk about this correctly, with a psychological approach.
It would be nice to do this to the mother, grandmother, sister or school doctor. Starting from 10-11 years old, the girl needs to talk about those changes that will soon happen to her body. She needs to explain in simple words what is menstruation, that they are inevitable, natural, and sooner or later any girl occurs later.
It also needs to be familiarized with the rules of hygiene these days. You can also tell her about the structure of the internal genital organs of a woman, so that she more accurately understands the cause of what is happening. The main thing is that the girl is not afraid when menstruation is onset, so that she understands that this is not a disease and a pathology, but the usual process of turning a girl into a girl, and later a woman who will become a mother.
It will not be superfluous to talk about pregnancy and its prevention, since the occurreed menstruation is a signal to the opportunity to become pregnant. If the girl knows the physiology of menstruation, she will be able to calculate the most and least likely days for the opportunity to get pregnant. In case of menstruation, it is very important to explain about the correct hygiene, since the blood that is released during menstruation is the most favorable environment for the development of microbes. Therefore, it is important to tell the girl how to use tampons.
Incomplete or insufficient nutrition, climatic conditions, and a girl’s diseases affect the onset of menstruation. According to statistics, women in the north ripen later than in the southern regions. The information that the girl receives from television, cinema, literature also affects.
The first menstruation usually appear at 11-14 years old. Maybe such that they will begin up to ten years or, on the contrary, after 16 years. If a girl of 13-14 years old does not have signs of the development of dairy rims, and at the age of 15-16, menstruation has not yet occurred, then this is no longer a normal phenomenon, since a delay in puberty is possible.
To find out the reasons for such a delay, you must see a doctor and go through the examinations. It should be noted that today the girls have an earlier onset of the first menstruation than a few decades ago, when it came at 15-16 years old.
Parents of girls should understand that if the girl has first menstruation, this does not mean that she has matured sex. It takes a couple of years to mentally and physically the girl mature to fulfill such an important mission as motherhood.
