Norwegian exhibit about menstruation.
See some booklets roughly contemporary with this one:
Your Personal Guide to Menstruation and Tampon Usage
(complete booklet, U.S.A., 1988, o.b. tampons)
Tampax Satin Learner's Kit, 2001, in 3 languages:
English. Booklet, pads & tampons
Trousse de l'étudiante French
Estuche de Aprendizaje Spanish
Having Your Period (complete
booklet, 1985, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., U.S.A.)
Text and pictures are to the point; there's no product to sell.
Omdat de lijnen van je lichaam veranderen (Dutch;
English: As the lines of your body change), 2007, the Netherlands, Libresse pads & puberty booklet
Always Changing (complete
booklet, Always menstrual pads, 1995, U.S.A.)
More booklets menstrual hygiene
companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list of books and articles about
menstruation
 
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Hvordan Kroppen Din Forandrer Seg (English:
"How Your Body Changes") Puberty & menstruation
information for girls, 1990, Tampax menstrual tampons, Norway
Complete booklet
I've translated the booklet; see under each page.
I thank the Norwegian contributor of the booklet!
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Below: Pp. 16-19.
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Adapting
All these changes are caused by the release of hormones in puberty and
therefore it's not surprising that boys and girls can also be affected emotionally.
It can be problematic to grow up!
Perhaps you discover that you react differently in known situations
and that your feelings for things and people change. At times you can be
moody and down and believe that nobody understands you. These mood swings
can be frustrating especially if you are usually cheerful - you can't understand
why you react the way you do.
But when you and your body become used to the physical and hormonal
changes in puberty the mood swings and depression will disappear and you'll
be your old good self again. Talk about your feelings with your parents
or friends and you'll see that they'll try to understand and help.
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The menstrual cycle
Menstruation is another word for the period. It usually comes once a
month. The menstrual cycle is a continuing process that several times a
year prepares the female reproductive system for a possible pregnancy. When
the boy's reproductive organs are completely developed he can become a father
at any time. The female reproductive system is more complicated and girls
can become pregnant only in certain stages of the menstrual cycle.
The monthly process . . . .
When you have your first period it means that your reproductive system
follows a regular pattern each month. First, there's produced a hormone
that that causes an egg cell to mature in an ovary. When the egg is developed,
it's released and it finds its way to the nearest Fallopian tube. That's
called ovulation. The egg continues to mature and and moves through the
tube to the uterus. While that happens, the ovary produces a hormone that
causes the lining of the uterus, the endometrium, the grow. That's necessary
in case the egg is fertilized by a sperm cell and pregnancy takes place.
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1. Menstrual days
2. The egg cell developing in the ovary
3. Ovulation: The egg enters the Fallopian tube
4. Thickening of the lining of the uterus. The egg moves to the uterus
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The female reproductive system prepares itself each month for a possible
pregnancy but a woman can only become pregnant a few times in her life.
When the eggs and uterine thickening aren't necessary, the lining breaks
down and becomes blood, which together with the egg is separated from the
body through the mouth of the vagina. That's menstrual bleeding.
Pregnancy happens when the egg is fertilized by a sperm. During sexual
intercourse sperm is emptied into the vagina and swim through the uterus
to the Fallopian tubes where one of the sperms combines with the egg. The
fertilized egg is transported to the uterus where it attaches to the thickened
lining of the uterus, which nourishes it at first. The baby grows during
the 40 weeks of the pregnancy. [The diagram uses the word foster
- fetus - rather than baby,
babyen - "the baby"].
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inside front cover (p.2) & contents (p.3)
4-7 8-11 12-15 16-19 20-23
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Norwegian exhibit about menstruation.
Your Personal Guide to Menstruation and Tampon Usage
(complete booklet, U.S.A., 1988, o.b. tampons
Tampax Satin Learner's Kit, 2001, in 3 languages:
English, French, Spanish
Having Your Period (complete
booklet, 1985, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.)
Omdat de lijnen van je lichaam veranderen (Dutch;
English: As the lines of your body change), 2007, the Netherlands, Libresse pads & puberty booklet - Always Changing
(complete booklet, Always menstrual pads, 1995,
U.S.A.) - OLDER booklets
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