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Goodness smiling
and certainly growing up.
Good morning. Girls. This morning.
Molly doesn't hurt at all but you'd better stop by my office
and let me take a look at it it won't take a minute. OK.
OK Molly let's take a look.
Oh yes oh that's going up just fine.
The games I shared with you please let someone else do the cheering for you because
that's what a still slightly inflamed careful.
Oh by the way my way your mother left her gloves over my house last night we were
taken to our shared always leaving them but you know.
You know I've known Molly and her family ever since she first came to school
and I think you might like to know where to.
Molly in Missouri home with her father her mother
and her older sister Jean.
Jeannie and Molly each have their own rooms but lately it seems
that Molly is more interested in Jeannie's room than her own.
Molly and Jeannie get along well about as most sisters do.
Mally. What do you think you're doing nothing.
Genie I haven't come into.
Honestly Molly problem any kind of I absolutely my single are all telling
him you didn't get off the list because there.
I was going to hurt your old thing. I just want to try the.
Well why don't you ask Mother some things of your own.
You're old enough
to me when you think I'll start having periods to oh I don't know.
Pretty soon I suppose. I was thirteen when I started.
So Peggy's already started hairs and I'm six months older than she is well so what.
So I'm starting earlier so later we're all different from the way you've been
acting but we shouldn't be long now.
The one day not long after
that Molly came home from school.
That you Molly. Oh I forgot a day.
Did you have today. Mom guess what.
I don't know what mom I started my first period.
Well what do you know. Today. Tell me about it when does it start.
Well it was this afternoon when I was changing into my gym clothes
and I noticed a bit of blood on my panties
and godly At first I thought well I don't know what to think
and then I remembered when we talked about men or menstruation menstruation
and stuff. Well then I went to see Miss Jesson Oh my God.
How do you feel. Kind of funny like I mean I was hoping it would start soon.
That seems like I forgotten everything you've told me. All right.
I tell you what we'll do tonight will be mother and daughter conference night
and if you'll give me a hand with supper we'll get started. That was earlier.
OK I want the ride down. Really.
Long at all before you're quite used to it.
You see how do you meant to Asian is perfectly normal it happens every much this
year.
So why not own your part of being a woman I guess course right at
first you probably won't be very regular most girls don't settle down for a year
or so.
Even then some girls go more than a month between periods another joyous that's
normal too and eventually your body will set up its own.
Regular time we set up Molly. Time comes to vote.
Well if you sit and stand straight.
That'll give the organs inside your body room to function better.
And that'll make you feel better. I'll get it.
That's probably why. Hello.
Oh Hi Peggy. Cherie just a minute I'll ask.
Mom can I go swimming with Teddy to morrow after school I don't think I would not
be home by five thirty. No it's not a good idea.
The first two or three days of your period. You might get to know them catch cold.
Oh that's right. Peggy Of course I can't go swimming.
You know I've got the curry rats trying to do a good idea.
The first couple of days.
Oh oh oh good heavens.
Molly you're going like a weed. I'm going to have to let that happen down again.
Come on I'll do it right now.
OK it's it's you know
I've often wondered why it is that some women still call menstruation the curse.
I don't know why he calls it that and it is kind of a nuisance in this.
I suppose it is sometimes it's just
that it sounded sort of old fashioned we say it's what do you do up to zero
and with a fight. Yeah it's not bad.
It's something wrong with our area law we ought to be getting a better picture than
that because all the talk about it and here it is a private conference.
No I don't think they owed you Molly you know I guess you tell them.
Well Jim Molly's growing up. She's having her first menstrual period right.
Already. Alice I thought well I mean after all the only adult down he says so.
I am not a baby anymore I know there but.
Now I know honey I guess you are.
Growing up. It's fun
but some of the things Molly used to do seem a little silly now.
Sometimes she gets all mixed up just thinking about it.
She's changing from a child into an adult and it's a little confusing at times.
Molly had lots of questions about what was happening to her It so happened I had a
chance to answer some of them.
Her teacher was sick one day and asked me to take her class.
And this is true of women everywhere.
So you see menstruation is just the natural normal process leading up to being a
mother.
This is a diagram of the uterus or womb
and these are the fallopian tubes leading to it.
And these the ovaries which produce the egg cells.
Now these egg cells are far too small for us to see.
But once each month an egg cell will leave one of the ovaries go into the opening
of the tube nearest to it and then it's on its way to the uterus.
Now at the same time the uterus has been preparing a growing place for this egg a
soft lining of blood vessels and tissues.
If the egg unites with a male cell
or sperm as it's on its way down the tube it is fertilized and then
when it reaches the uterus it settles down in the soft lining
and begins to grow into a baby.
If the egg cell is not fertilized it disappears.
And then.
Since the lining is no longer needed it to dissolve away.
And explode out of the body through an opening in the hymen.
Which is a membrane over the opening of the vagina.
And so we say that we are menstruating. Yes Barbara.
This Janssen was menstruation started while some girls start
when they're ten years old and someone they're sixteen or seventeen
or anywhere in between. But the average age seems to be about thirteen.
No I knew what day of the week. What starts. My mother.
Starts on Tuesday well mine too.
Oh it might but it probably won't because each girl's body sets up her own time
and rhythms.
And the time between periods may vary anywhere from twenty three to thirty two days.
And the floor last from two to seven days also depending on the girl's own rhythm.
This can sense. How often should you change napkins when you Mr Ayling Well
that depends on the amount of flow. But probably five or six times a day.
And that brings up another point.
Many of your girls haven't started to menstruate yet but
when you do you will want to use a sanitary napkin to absorb the slopes it's a soft
absorbent pad and it's made to sit over the opening of the vagina
and to follow the curve of the body.
It's the tab ends are attached to a narrow elastic belt which you can
wear around your hips or waist. It's now. Some girls prefer to use tampons.
But tampon is a cylinder of observant cotton inside the cardboard applicator
that is inserted into the vagina by means of the F A K two.
It's a cotton absorbs the flow and
when it is full you remove it and discard its Yes Molly. This Jensen.
Is it to the people can tell a human today. No it isn't.
But you should be more careful than ever about personal cleanliness
and thinking to change your underwear more often.
Be sure and use a deodorant and pay more attention to your hair and your nails
and plan to wear your prettiest dress in other words be your most attractive self
and remember menstruation is only a part of growing up as you grow your body
changes from that of a young girl to that of a woman.
It's becoming round with the beginnings of a bosom
and the start of a real waistline and hips
and here is beginning to grow in different places too big hair and underarm hair.
Yes that Jansen learned that dancing. Can you when you maintain.
Yes you can with moderation in fact you can do most of the things you usually do
you can bang his or shower as long as yours warm water and you can wash your hair.
If you're sure to dry it quickly and you can swim.
If you wait until after two or three days at the beginning of your period.
And you can go to dances and picnics. But it's not a very good idea to skate.
Or ride horseback or play fast games like volleyball and basketball
or do strenuous dancing like square dancing or anything
that has your around a lot in general mild exercise are best ones
that strengthen the abdominal muscles are particularly good.
It's sensible to avoid strenuous exercise when you're menstruating.
And you'll be sure
and tell your mother army if everything doesn't seem to be just right now I'd like
each of you to take one of these booklets about menstruation.
And when you finish reading it. If you have any questions.
Be sure and come and see me and remember.
Menstruation is as normal and natural as eating or breathing or sleeping.
Soon Molly will be a young woman like a genie having dates going to dances
and lovely romantic dresses and making new and important friends.
There are so many wonderful things to look forward to
growing up. It's an exciting time.