Comments on: Pinays on awareness

By: juli

juli — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:49:12 +0000

wow. ms. jo.. PopCom quiz bee contestant ka rin pala.
.-= juli´s last blog ..post birthday swimming party =-.

By: fortuitous faery

fortuitous faery — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:58:16 +0000

they didn’t have formal lectures on the menstrual cycle back then. but when i first had mine, i experienced not bathing, jumping (sans the stairs because we lived in a duplex), and (gasp!) the bloody facial wash. i didn’t know better then! LOL

By: kayni

kayni — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:35:50 +0000

LOL…ok,letter C takes the cake. that’s really yucky. happy weekend, wits!

By: dong ho

dong ho — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:07:14 +0000

I thought it was not fair that no one told me to jump off the stairs.>>>whoops!

That the one who had her first period too early is the pinakamalandi in the batch>>> hahaha…

By: kg

kg — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:39:13 +0000

haaay, i’ve heard these myths already! yucky talaga yung you have to wash your face with your blood. eeekkk!!!

i remember when i had my first period, i was 9 going on 10. i ate chocolate the previous night, so when i saw the blood (brownish), i though the chocolate got out of my system! he! he!

By: J.

J. — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:18 +0000

This post is SO interesting. Let me pose another theory, this one from my own experience.

Let’s face it: The Philippines is a nurse farm. My mom is a nurse, legions of my aunts and cousins were nurses. Many of us grew up without our mothers, because a lot of them chose to work overseas. So, other than the prefunctory health class, there really wasn’t a lot of close women to talk to about your period–mostly yayas (and their superstitions) or your peers who didn’t know anything about it as well. I was lucky that when it happened to me, my mom was home on vacation. (It happened in the middle of a Dungeons & Dragons game with my brother and male cousins. I KNEW it happened and had to make some lame excuse about leaving the role-playing game at hand, lol.)

Even then, I wasn’t spared from the “jump from the stairs” bit. My yaya made sure, despite many an eye-roll from my mother. Thankfully no face-washing, but my yaya did have me pour three tabo-fuls of water on myself, clothes and all, so that supposedly my period would only last three days. That DIDN’T work. Haha.

By: Photo Cache

Photo Cache — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:16:54 +0000

the myths i grew up with were a/b/c. i followed the not bathing thing until i wisened up.

i had little educ from elders about it (me being the only girl in four boys), but it somehow appeared every month without fail. i haven’t had a failure, not once. kaya siguro di ako makabuo buo eh

By: luna miranda

luna miranda — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:48:36 +0000

you’re right, but parents of certain generation were too embarrassed to even discuss their own bodies. my mom told me when i was about 11 that babies come out from the tip of the toe nails (lol). unbelievable! and when i asked about blood stains on her house dress, she would tell me weird stories like she accidentally sat on nails, or it was the neighbor’s nganga on her, not blood. but thank goodness, my mom and aunts didn’t tell me any myths about menstruation. but early on, i knew it was painful because i witnessed my mom’s “sufferings” every month until her hysterectomy when i was 13. unfortunately, i inherited her problem.:(

By: ever

ever — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:13:17 +0000

palagay ko sa proper na paliwanagan maiintindihan ng bata.

dati kasi inaasar ko yung kapatid kong babae..hala lagot may lalabas na mumo.

By: kreez

kreez — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:50:33 +0000

that is the difficulty when elderly are too emabarassed to discuss stuff like these to kids.