ObGyn Reacts: Disney Menstruation Education (1946!) | WOW. I can't.

Ob/Gyn physician Danielle Jones, MD reacts to Disney's Kotex collab for teaching school age kids about the menstrual cycle in 1946.
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[@Danielle-uw5df]

Pleeeeeeeease find the one I had to watch in elementary school. I think it was by Kotex? It involved a girl at a sleepover getting her period. The mom made the Fallopian tubes with pancake batter the next morning. You’ve gotta find it. 😂

[@Danielle-uw5df]

This would have been around 1996-1997.

[@MamaDoctorJones]

THIS IS THE ONE I WATCHED TOO!!!!!!! I distinctly remember the pancakes!

[@Danielle-uw5df]

Mama Doctor Jones Hahaha! I love that! I’ve scoured the internet (well, googled for about ten minutes) and was only able to find old Reddit references to it. Apparently it’s a gem many have searched for (obviously!) and is now somewhat of a myth. But I REMEMBER those pancakes on the flat top grill! I “was sick” the first day it was shown, and had to go to the smaller, more intimate “make up day.” Horrifying.....

[@MamaDoctorJones]

Someone has got to find this.

[@jennicaharris9134]

I watched that one, too! I am currently 33 years old.

[@katherinec2759]

My mom's philosophy was always "if they're old enough to ask the question, they're old enough to get the answer." (Age-appropriately, of course.)

[@jillronan6786]

Totally my philosophy as well! (At least for the vast majority of issues, anyway!)

[@abbypizon2132]

That was my mom's philosophy as well! As a kid, I really felt like I could ask my mom anything and get a straight answer. I'm definitely gonna use her methods if I ever choose to have kids 😁

[@eleanorrigby7914]

My mom just told me right away, I don’t remember not knowing how babies are made, I learned it like anything else kids learn, and because of that it was just always normal to me, not weird or scary a all.

[@ladmyn2726]

I like that I'm writing that one down

[@skinni_the_P00hBear]

Yo....I'm using this

[@purplekitti5784]

Disney: *Gently pats you on the back.* Having a period is perfectly normal. Disney: *Gently pats you on the back.* Having a different body that is unique to yourself is perfectly normal. Disney: *Slaps you across the face.* No negative emotions! GET OVER YOURSELF!!

[@alexander_yoko]

Well, that's how I motivate myself. 😅

[@cce8632]

😂😂

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Yep, I noticed that ... extreme difference, too, LOL!

[@m.a.s.o.n_the-icon_4210]

@@alexander_yoko same lol

[@naralineandrade8250]

Disney: *shaking your shoulders* WHAT YOU MEAN YOU GOT A COLD?!?!?!

[@gwammeh]

“Your cycle should be about the same length every time.” My body: PARKOUR

[@lr2564]

Omgggggg....your comment made me HOWL 😂

[@pikachuneoncat6480]

Lmao, same.

[@lannawolf1864]

🤣🤣🤣

[@sararitakt1005]

Saaaaame!!!! Only time my periods were regular, was when I was on the pill! Can't remember ever being told/taught they should become regular quite early... I'm 50 now, it still comes and goes as it pleases. Can't wait for it to stop!!

[@Will_derness]

LMAO same here

[@fruitylaura]

I feel like the “wild” dancing part was maybe put there because pads at the time didn’t have any adhesive. You wouldn’t want your pad to shift too much, so you don’t bleed all over your underwear. At least that’s the best explanation that popped into my mind.

[@grammajo1889]

Girls were pampered back then. It wasn’t lady like to do anything during “that time”. We wore a special belt that connected to the ends of the pad so it didn’t slip much.

[@Linnea21792]

I was wondering the same thing. And with the culture you’d probably be labeled nasty things if you used a tampon

[@Ourlifepalette]

@@Linnea21792 I actually saw a real ad from that time for tampons back when they were a new thing and they kept emphasizing that “you don’t feel it when it’s in” XD

[@JJ-iq8mi]

Thank goodness for tampons!

[@oliviaspring9690]

@@grammajo1889 not necessarily, anyone who lived in a working class or lower class had to housework, which if done thoroughly can be physically strenuous, as well as kids still walked to school every day and definitely played outside. Many houses also had gardens and that would also require doing maintenance yourself.

[@sleepyote]

"yOu sTiLl hAvE tO LiVe WiTh pEoPLe" Listen Barbara, if I want to lock myself in my room for 6 days, I will.

[@millerblaylock]

when i started my mom said "you can't just stay locked in your room every time you're on your period" and i said "fucking watch me"

[@WanderingWriter]

now theres not much option lol

[@RWAsur]

Why stop at 6 days?

[@katiekuchar6399]

Miller Blaylock Lmaoo Same. I was always like “ I’m not in the mood to fight with y’all and you’re in here telling me to hangout. It’s about to be an argument.” 😂😂😂

[@Shejejjenwn_02]

Doggo FACTS GET A MINI FRIDGE TAKE OUT FOOD TO LEAVE AT THE WINDOW AND GOOD

[@altoidsours]

I still remember in school when we learned about periods and the teacher said "they don't hurt, you won't feel any discomfort." Biggest lie I was ever told in my life, smh.

[@altoidsours]

@Purple Citrine I'm really not sure. That really sucks!

[@buffycatnip]

the first time i ever got my period, the cramps were so intense to the point that i ended up throwing up while being curled up in a fetal position

[@slightlysaltyslug8972]

I didnt believe that talk until my school kept teaching it for three years🤣😂

[@angellinafosse1936]

Kylie Kay oh boy that’s bad.

[@raerohan4241]

@@funkylilmaam1658 They're not meant to be painful? Let me reiterate: *the lining of the uterus is peeling off s l o w l y* As in, part of our body is literally falling off. Imagine if the first few layers of your forearm suddenly started sloughing off, skin and blood and some flesh, so that the red muscle fibers underneath became exposed...

[@kibundle]

The female half of my 6th grade class was supposed to see a film like this, maybe this one, in 1967. The class was told "the film broke." I never believed it. I think our Victorian school teacher just didn't want to field questions. Instead, we were given mystifying pink booklets from Kimberley Clark that were written in flowery, non-specific language. I had no parents to ask questions, literally an orphan, and back then no one volunteered to explain, which was frustrating--what was the big mystery? I read a medical book in the library and sort of figured it out when I got my first period. I wasn't prepared so I pinned a dish towel to my underwear until I earned enough babysitting money to buy supplies. It didn't have to be so difficult.

[@livismith5007]

That’s insane. So sorry you didn’t have the proper education, but very glad you came across it on your own. I learned about it at 8, read so many puberty books and made so many emergency kits from then on- didn’t get it til I was 11😂😂

[@ingridakerblom7577]

Sorry for your experience, this is unaxeptable .. sadly, what I have learned. It's not so much better in many places in the US today..

[@cindy846]

Wow, like you said, it didn't have to be that difficult. That's horrible. But you've figured it out, be proud of that.

[@carolkegel7599]

OMG that story makes me want to cry!

[@spvillano]

@@livismith5007 aw, come on now, kids are supposed to learn that at home by miracle. Or something. Thankfully, today we have schools that do try to educate - all too often, despite the "ASSistance" of the school board.

[@the_autistic_advocate]

Let’s give “The Story of Menstruation” some credit. Sure it’s outdated and contains glaring inaccuracies, but in 1946 when it was first released, it was GROUNDBREAKING!!!! Seriously. Any form of period education was unheard of at the time. Discussing such things with young girls was a huge no-no. “The Story of Menstruation” really challenged that status quo.

[@yamato6114]

Not to mention actually saying the word ‘vagina’, uncensored, and in a non-sexual manner. People tend to act like talking about vaginas are a huge no no because of how overtly sexualized the female body is in mainstream media.

[@roxassora2706]

​@@yamato6114 Do this nowadays and the grown men will call it "grooming":

[@ALT-vz3jn]

I think it’s a great video and this KZbinr is being overly dramatic, making stupid faces and constantly playing with her hair. I felt like I was pretty well informed after watching the Disney video.

[@mariongordon4199]

Also, I (respectfully, and unusually) disagree with DMJ that it should've included a description of how pregnancy occurs. Maybe it's just me, but I think one thing at a time is better. Explain menstruation and let the children / young ladies get a handle on what they'll see for most of their lives - the result of the egg NOT getting fertilised. Then a little later, a follow on lesson on how pregnancy happens when the egg gets fertilised.

[@Guciom]

@@roxassora2706 Educating about menstruation and talking about the joys of anal sex with minors are two different things.

[@emilyfanslow3604]

They never once said you bleed. If I saw this as a kid, I would have been freaked if I started bleeding.

[@RoseFairbanksauthor]

Emmy Fanslow they did slip in that blood is shed among other things but they definitely didn’t talk about it looking like blood.

[@catmomlavender3036]

They were much more concerned about instilling shame and on how to act . 🙈😳🤷🏼‍♀️

[@pcbassoon3892]

Have you ever read Tina Fey's book Bossy Pants? When she got her period, she though it would be blue because that was also the color of the liquid used in ads for pads. She freaked out when she saw blood.

[@catmomlavender3036]

@@pcbassoon3892 I just read a comment about a great-great grandmother from the 1800s who had twin sisters who got their periods together and thought that god was punishing them and they wrote notes to their parents saying sorry and how they were being punished by god and committed sucide! Oh my goodness, that one was like ... I'm SHOOK ! 😳😳😳

[@keena5958]

I noticed the same! Not once was it mentioned that blood is what comes out! If this was a girl's only information, they sure could be in for a surprise!

[@pinkladyproductions8087]

Fun Fact: Walt Disney had this made for his daughters since at this time they were at that age.

[@greenaum]

Beats talking to 'em.

[@RandomPerson-fy6dn]

That’s sweet

[@driftingdruid]

Walt Disney clearly was not the best father, avoiding birds-and-bees talk and giving guilt trips instead.... edit: and not mentioning how to deal with the blood, or the fact that blood is coming out

[@evie6530]

I mean... Walt Disney was also a nazi

[@Moon_Drawz]

@@evie6530 no he wasnt???

[@Trogdor1365]

It would be scary for a young girl to think an egg can just randomly be "impregnated," but _most_ of the time it just passes through. That's confusing.

[@cindy846]

Absolutely!

[@addyshorhnr3544]

If I was taught this was I would have a such a fear of spontaneous pregnancy. Though it’s kinda hard to not teach a farm kid what sex is pretty young.

[@The_Darke_Lorde]

​@@addyshorhnr3544Father: *Takes kids to a buncha horny animals* Ram: *Mounts a ewe* Bull: *Mounts a cow* Boar: *Mounts a sow* Rooster: *Tops a hen* Stallion: *Mounts a mare* Father: Now replace that with an older you and someone you love very much.

[@danitapowell2291]

I remember learning about our periods in school, and somehow I got the idea that it would be “a period” of about five to seven days of bleeding and that I might experience cramps, and/or a headache. This sounded terrible to me, but I figured I could endure anything for a week, and then I would be a woman. When I conveyed this information to my mom, she clarified for me that it would not be just one period, but rather every 28 days. For how long? I asked. Until you are around 50, she explained. Somebody just shoot me now. I was horrified!

[@sarak1124]

Same here! I was fine for the first one, but I nearly lost my mind when the second one happened. I screamed from the bathroom for my mum, and when she came in to see what was wrong, I showed her my underwear and yelled "I had a relapse!!" That was when she realised that I had never gotten any real information about periods. LOL

[@cindy846]

Aaaaawwww oh nooooo

[@camilaramos8148]

When I got my first period I had cramps for a week before the actual bleeding, and it was super painful when it started. I remember thinking “Do I really have to do this FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE?” 😭

[@cindy846]

@@camilaramos8148 « the rest of my life » lol especially since at 12 we tend to believe 50 y. o. is a good age to be mummified… (aka some of us believed that was SO old) 😆

[@Madeline_Mahoney_25]

i got my period at 12 and i have not had any cramps keep in mind im 15 i guess im lucky

[@ZoyaKhan-wu2ph]

When I got my period, my parents weren’t home-I have a twin brother (we shared the same room at the time) and 3 elder brothers. I remember FREAKING OUT I knew nothing but I was certain I was gonna die😂😂 So I ran to my oldest brother and it took me 5 minutes to explain to him that I was dying lol He was sooooo confused, then my other brothers heard me crying and came there. My twin knew what was happening he just went “Oh gosh,oh no” Then my brothers explained it to me saying that there’s “a baby in my stomach that needed space to grow so it was pushing the blood out” lol I got even more scared I was like “am I pregnant” But then one of my brothers’ girlfriends came and explained it to me and I had the weirdest conversation with my twin brother that night (it was actually he who explained it the best to me lol) Last week, my oldest brother, who’s 13 years older than me-his daughter got her period and I went-“let me do the talk for you, you’ll scare the shit out of her😂

[@meowmeow4148]

Ok. This comment made me laugh. You made my day! 😆

[@avantika216]

Oh my !! So heart warming

[@kristinwiebold2433]

Oh my.

[@lync6170]

I legit thought I was going to die. I even calculated (in my 11 year old mind) how long I would be able to live with the amount of blood leaving my body. 2 weeks at best lol. But I figured out everything. I never told her I started my period until she found out. 😅

[@alliworks6724]

Wow I got my period when I was ten and I knew exactly it what it was, and the only thing going through my head was, "fuck, how am I going to get this out of my underwear." Lmao

[@beaveloso3682]

When the girl was brushing her hair and the brush broke and she started crying, I felt that. That's so me on my period

[@heatherb1700]

I think every woman watching could relate. I threw a pen at a coworker for breathing too loud once

[@jess-bo1nv]

bea schuchmann same, if you exist to loudly while I’m on my period I will either cry or yell at you

[@marthap30]

You cry when you are on your period!?

[@heatherb1700]

@@marthap30 you can get very emotional because of the sharp hormonal shifts.

[@jess-bo1nv]

Grey 00 most people do

[@ms.mittenz]

"dont dramatize" - i mean, sure, i woke up once at 15 crying without knowing why, before realizing it was because of cramps, but sure, ill just cheer up and forget the pain...

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

Um yeah... bad enough advice for 'normal' kids, but if you unknowingly suffer from endometriosis & are passing out from pain every month or so, being told you just need to toughen up SUCKS! 😖 (Ask me how I know... 🙄)

[@CMM726]

Typical 1940s logic. Cheer up and smile!!

[@jessicalee5260]

Honestly, I rarely cried due to cramping (until later when my lady parts went insane), but I did cry for 3 hours because I accidentally broke a plate.

[@ms.mittenz]

@@jessicalee5260 thankfully that part i dont experience. At least not to that extreme. :) gotta share the issues, right?

[@sillydudesyd5962]

I got my first period the day after Christmas, I remember just calling my mom and saying “hey uh I think I got my period” and that was it. the only thing that truly threw me off was the fact that I was convinced that you only bled for like twenty minutes. When I did research, boy was I mistaken.

[@sockmage4400]

Same here, but I was actually pleasantly surprised to find out it was “only” a week long. I thought periods would last for a month (and that they came every other month or something). Not sure why I though this but at least I had low expectations going in

[@BethGoth15]

I got mine the day after Christmas too. I remember feeling EXHAUSTED and I saw the blood in my bed and it just didn't click with me 😂 A little while later, my mum came up to me and said, "Show me your underwear."

[@Blue_Oceanic]

Let’s just say Mother Nature decided to give you a gag gift. That’s what I call gifts that you don’t really like.

[@sillydudesyd5962]

@@BethGoth15 id be so creeped if my mom just asked to see my underwear tf 😭

[@sharondacox6178]

BOYS need this too. OMG. I was afraid when my son learned that I have a bleeding time, but he was just as normal about it as his older sister had been, because she told him when she got hers, too. He grew up knowing "Mom needs a pad from the closet" is no stranger than "Mom needs a roll of toilet paper from the closet." Thank God for modern kids.

[@mikestubbs5242]

I (gay man speaking) grew up (GenXer, here) in what seems to have been a very narrow window where the 70s types had become professionals by the mid-80s and were running the show. ALL the sex ed stuff we got was co-ed, because it seems their position was 'If you don't know all of it, you don't know anything.' Punchline: I (gay man speaking, who never in daily life has to interact with ANY of it) seem to know way more about menstruation than ALL my straight male friends?!?!

[@daylight137]

lol my dad knew about it because he had 4 older sisters

[@TH-eb5ro]

I'm the oldest sister, my brothers knew and were totally comfortable with it. I knew because my grandmother had explained things.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

I made sure both my sons grew up knowing about the whole part of both sexes' reproductive organs and cycles, over and above what the rural little school here bothered to teach them. Then again, I also taught them that women can do just about anything men can do, and proved it every day I went to work, doing a "man's" job of being a semi trailer mechanic, and showing the males that worked with me that I didn't need any special help, but could teach them a thing or two, instead, LOL!

[@LeslieG5]

Also, we need to teach all equal because some boys, trans boys, have period. And non binary people :D

[@ashleyheath3055]

I was honestly surprised they said “vagina” it being the 1940s lol

[@Br0wnEyedQueen]

First program to ever say it, disney got real

[@PhoenixFires9]

I’m surprised that this video was made at all!

[@adrimare1]

I'm surprised there was a racially mixed couple at one point.

[@thathollyjorge]

I feel like the woman said it with some disdain though... like "ugh vagina, such a vulgar word"

[@jubelivion182]

@@thathollyjorge did you notice that the narrator had to take a little break after saying it?🤣

[@legendreo]

If kids are asking questions, it's the correct time to answer them. Never tell them to wait until they're older, if they're old enough to think up the question, they're old enough for an answer

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Unfortunately American prudishness still applies with a lot of parents. Add in a dash of religion and you get the results you can imagine.

[@christavarghese5399]

True..asked my mum about periods and I got it for the first time literally the next month

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

@@christavarghese5399 your timing was impeccable! Lol

[@kathleengrant4341]

When I started my period in 1976 my mom, who was taught by her mother in the 1940s, who was taught by her mother on the 1910s, taught me to keep a calendar. All my friends were taught to keep a calendar. I would argue that, if anything, girls are taught that less often these days, not more often.

[@No-sv6mu]

When my daughter started her period; we put an app on her phone to track it 😄

[@pinkcatgxrl]

That is true for me. I’m almost 28 years old and have never kept a calendar. It seems so simple, I can’t believe it never occurred to me.

[@jellomiki]

Well, at the time women educated other women about their bodies, and they knew what they were talking about ! We're talking about a time period when a girl could ask her friends to perform her abortion ! What truly changed things mostly in the 20' century is that starting in the 19' century, men started getting interested in women's anatomy, while before if was a subject unworthy of their attention. And men, as men where back then (and still a lot now, let's not lie) decided they knew woman's bodies better than the women themselves, they decided what was normal and what wasn't, what was to be taught and what was irrelevant. Of you look up sex-ed books (especially ones from before the 1990s? it's say?) many are written by men. Not saying that a man cannot be a good obgyn or whatever, just that there's a reason those 'tricks' aren't as well known anymore. Personally I'm of the opinion that that one bit of education, when done is schools should always be done by someone who has/has had a uterus so they know what they're talking about, and by all that is good, stop making it a one off, non-mendatory, one hour long thing ! Nobody can get anything other than the bare bones of learning in these conditions ! (sorry it devolved into a rant)

[@addyshorhnr3544]

My mom told me I needed to but then I proceeded to loss 4 different calendars find a few of them a hand full of times and loose them again, all before my next cycle a month later. It didn’t take long for her to give up on me, and now that I think about it I don’t think I ended my period in the app I use.

[@Candyy248]

Honestly I do not see myself keeping up with that calendar ngl...

[@moonxxdark]

I love how the baby is wearing lipstick and eyeliner 🤦‍♀️

[@sugarplumprincess6833]

It's the 1900s, if its not perfect, its wrong.

[@betterpinkthanbloody]

@@sugarplumprincess6833 1900s: If it's not perfect, it's wrong. My social anxiety: EXACTLY!

[@theoriginalsuzycat]

that's how you can tell it's a GIRL baby... destined for... the Menstrual Cycle....

[@stormyjlb]

moonxxdark YES! Nothing like totally sexualizing an infant!

[@Wormier]

That's really how she be

[@sparklegirlsies]

I just imagine these girls not knowing how pregnancy happens and just being terrified a baby might just show up in there

[@malkaklein5239]

Haha 🤣

[@bethmerryfield7186]

My younger neighbor confided to me that she was scared that babies just happened. I asked her if she knew what the word f#÷k meant. She replied that she did. I said that activity had to happen before a baby was created. I could see her relief wash over her and I felt so happy that I could relieve my friend of her worries.

[@alicehatter4973]

I was born in 1985. I watched a movie almost just like this, it may have been this very one. I remember having the same opinions as you in this video and yes I remember asking myself that very question, they never mentioned how a baby gets in there, do they just appear one day (I was like 10yrs old watching this video)?? But I had already heard about sex and babies from my friends and word of mouth, so thank goodness I knew there was a contradiction to look into. I had to do my own research about it after I watched that video because it left me wondering so much. It was only supposed to be about your period. Intercorse & birth were another two completely different videos so it seperated everything and was confusing to me growing up and watching these shows because no adult/teacher wanted to talk about it. They just said were gonna learn about this and they put in the video and then moved on for the day. No questions. So all I had were these confusing, misdirecting videos. I remember thinking, my period is this sensitive? Cold water? Being THAT upset over a period?? Why?? If I took too cold/hot of a shower would I make myself cry and be ugly?? Because apparently thats not ok once we grow up because we should always be poise and pretty according to this video. Ya.. So glad it's so much more neutral today.. Thanks for the review, helps ease the guilt that they instill on you at such a young age with only a 15min video of little girls with makeup and bottoms hanging out of their dresses.

[@cashagon]

I know how babies happen and I *still* have this worry. I have to remind myself "You're a virgin and most certainly not named Mary!"

[@aliceputt3133]

That's exactly what I thought. No boys were involved.

[@randomapple64]

"Puberty starts around 11 years old" *remembers I started wearing bras when I was 7, and started having periods when I was 9* 🙃

[@daisyjefferson184]

My friend started at 9 she knew nothing about it i did so i had to tell her everything at 9

[@inserthahafunniusername9656]

Wow, I'm actually super close to that. I started wearing bras when I was 8 and I got my period for the first time when I was 10

[@emmacheese6107]

Same (well I was ment to start wearing bras at 7 but I didn't know what they were 😅)

[@laneyhesse8102]

Ok, but like I didn’t wear bras till 13 and now I’m 15 and still don’t have my period 😂

[@randomapple64]

@@laneyhesse8102 BE. FREAKING. GLAD.

[@CMM726]

The crazy dancing on your period being discouraged was probably due to that giant belt you had to wear back then with a 2 inch diaper attached. Imagine if that thing broke free and fell down in front of everyone

[@dr.liajavadi5051]

:'D 1. We wore underwear over the top of them. 2. They were pretty sturdy. I won't say they never broke, because everything breaks once in a while, but I never, in my life, actually knew anyone who had one break. lol

[@tyrant-den884]

If I was a girl at the time and had this as my menstrual education: I would be horrified when it came out red rather than white.

[@NikiY]

Much like adverts now where it's shown as bright blue?! 😬

[@fayz655]

My sister once knew a girl who completely freaked out when she had her first period, because she thought it would be blue. Educate your kids, people

[@tyrant-den884]

@@NikiY they can at least claim they are only trying to show how absorbent it is.

[@laurahubbard6906]

Nowhere is the word "blood" mentioned.

[@katvtay]

Yeah! I just asked if the video even once uses the word blood. We saw it didn’t, but I’m hoping something was cut from the original. Otherwise, poor youths, not understanding fully. 😳 ETA: thanks all for pointing out they say, “watery fluids and blood” around 4:40. They made no connection between this blood developing and it being that very blood that is expelled though. I can see girls at the time being confused about that.

[@creamtherabbit77]

So, when is the live-action remake of this Disney classic coming?

[@knitspired]

LOL!!!!!

[@kelly1827]

"Disney presents a remake from our vault: 'Menstruation' featuring Mama Doctor Jones!"

[@kingafederowicz2548]

The leading character Will be black.

[@sarahdeeb4852]

😂

[@justcallmejessz3712]

On Ice. 😊

[@user-yx2vi9ud4k]

I was blessed with three day periods. However, I wasn’t told that they could be that short when I had my sex education. I was freaked out that there was something wrong at first because it stopped really suddenly, and nobody explained it properly to me. Even small stuff like this is super important!

[@elfinekasteelvonrecklingha8393]

THREE DAYS??!!?? OMFG

[@addyshorhnr3544]

Mine is generally only 4 but I have pre-period cramps for a week to two weeks before. Like solidly not ovulation

[@SilverStarFour]

I was blessed with having a period with zero cramps and no feeling of discomfort whatsoever. And only once or twice a year for some reason. I got no clue why this happens to me or if this is even healthy. I just turned 30 and it's slowed to only once a year or maybe once every 15 months or so... and the doctors did an ultrasound and didn't find anything wrong and my hormones were fine too when they did a blood test.

[@elainad6728]

3?! LUCKYY

[@catlover2223]

So lucky!!! I used to have 7-9 day periods before I went on the pill.

[@nataliemontgomery1967]

my mom is a nurse, and whenever me or my siblings started asking questions about how babies were made, she'd pull out this huge (but also really neat) medical book with cool diagrams on it and she'd just explain things and let us look through it as much as we needed to before we were old enough to be embarrased by those things

[@teacuptiger91]

My Mom pulled out the medical book too. I wonder if it was the same book.

[@daniellemhall1358]

I'm still a bit surprised Disney said vagina. I guess they sugar coat everything else and this was kind of important.

[@starlabradshaw2969]

I will say, the narrator seemed to have an uncomfortable pause after saying "Vagina." I could picture her expression in my mind, I think she didn't really *want* to say it. Lolol

[@kewsapp8480]

Maybe they should’ve called it the “ Baby place”.... lol

[@talia7027]

Kids on Disney: “How are babies made?” Parents: “When a mommy and a daddy love each other very, very much...”

[@Apple_Bapple]

666th like

[@AirQuotes]

They skated over how conception actually happened though 🤣 an egg is going to have a baby. Erm you've explained nothing people

[@taylorswan2921]

Teaching there is 3 holes is important. My husband, on our wedding night, was very surprised to find out there were 3 holes 😂

[@AishaVonFossen]

ROFL!!! This just made my day. :D

[@melanietoth1376]

I've had to teach a few men about this

[@jadedmist]

My mom never explained so I thought you peed out of the clit until I was 12. Dont know how I didnt understand or find out sooner.

[@jojogreengames]

@@jadedmist *When you realize at age -17- through a random KZbin comment what we don't pee through the lower part of our clit* ...

[@BentleyS6336]

@@jadedmist god it took me til age 14 to realize i dont pee through my clit

[@theshopaholicwife5006]

I started my period at 11 years old, and bleed for 9 months straight. Needless to say, I ended up in the ER. For all my teenage years, my periods were never regular unless I was on the pill. At 17, I was diagnosed with PCOS and Endometriosis. Doctors told me I would have a difficult time getting pregnant. I went back on the pill to treat my symptoms. At 23, got married and went off the pill. 6 months later, I got pregnant! About 6 or 7 weeks along now!

[@jessicalee5260]

So happy for you! I pray your pregnancy is healthy and you have a healthy baby!

[@theshopaholicwife5006]

@@jessicalee5260 Thank you so so much!!! 💕💕💕🥰

[@kristen6393]

Doctors give really poor quality advice about PCOS.

[@Konani_the_unicorn_queen]

got PCOS over here to, but i have a severe aversion toward children and infants, so i'm not planning on birthing anyone. my periods has always been very short, if showing up at all, so since some years back i'm on a pill to trigger them once every 3rd month. -so even for people who doesn't get periods all that often due to something medical, we still have to bleed and suffer like everyone else 🙄

[@ShoutaAizawaismyfavorite]

My 5th grade teacher told people who said that they were short that they were just vertically challenged

[@bunnydefunct]

Catch me scream-crying with a smile on my face every cycle "Are you okay?!" "I'm taking my period in my STRIDE like DISNEY told me to!!"

[@alissag.8150]

😂😂😂

[@idontknowwhattochangethist9528]

Hahaha

[@anna-jaco7529]

That part was the inspiration for white diamond from Steven Universe because it is sooo creepy

[@Alchemy818.]

“Try not to catch a cold” Oh darn, I guess my weekend plans are off.

[@Igorcastrochucre]

She said "to catch cold", not "a cold". As in, literally don't let your body temperature lower, which was good advice in 1946 since not everybody had a heater.

[@kenzie0916]

Igorowan wait why is it not good to be cold

[@sophierobinson2738]

Kenzie cramps

[@ismt9390]

I have a friend who caught a cold purposefully to skip school. He took a shower and then slept naked and with the windows open... in December.

[@depressedcockroach4045]

@@ismt9390 he won't do that with global warming

[@THEunicornkitty]

This disney period video was so much more informative than any video or work sheet I've done in my health classes.

[@stayswaggy6826]

“Periods should always be the same days apart.” My body: Hahahaha *is that a threat?😈*

[@DJarry394]

My body: "hold my beer"

[@kated3165]

''Try not to get upset or overly emotional'' they say to young girls after leading them to believe that they will likely spontaneously become pregnant at some point! XD

[@lukaseldenrust2637]

I mean in the 1800s they told their daughters that you shouldn’t touch a boy because you’ll get pregnant and dancing has a lot of touching so they must be pregnant

[@jaydaforbes1614]

@@lukaseldenrust2637 is this an Anne With An E reference?

[@cursedcancersurvivor]

This is coming after a time, they thought people could get sick from being overly hysterical too.

[@coppercassiecampbell6077]

@@thesavvyblackbird I thought that I was pregnant because I was kissing a boy at 13. I snuck off to the doctor, he examined me (horribly embarrassing) he asked why I thought I was pregnant because I was still a virgin. I knew nothing about anything.

[@spleens4200]

copper cassie Campbell whoa wait what? A male doctor examined you down there? At 13??

[@azmakhan1415]

When I had my first Period I wasn't alarmed because of the short brief I recieved from my parents. I just knew I would bleed someday & its very NORMAL, Its the sign of maturity, & all women go through this. What I didnt know was, ”how long its gonna last!”😁 1st shock was when my sister told me its gonna last up to a week. 2nd shocker was I found they come every month.😳 I actually thought girls would bleed just ONCE in their lifetime, (as a sign of maturity) After that we are back to normal.😄😅😂🤣 Imagine if that was TRUE!

[@singingstars5006]

My mom had the same experience! She thought it happened once and she was so glad she had gotten it over with and then found out it was monthly. She hated being a girl at that moment. 😆

[@pczb2692]

They're just the worst... Every day I wish I was born a dude just so that I wouldn't have to go through with it every month, they don't even tell you about the awful pain you may feel or night cycles being stronger for most people...

[@abyss6484]

Omg I wish it were true

[@idktbh8041]

Omg my mom talked about periods openly with not just me everyone and everywhere so when I got my period I was like ugh great.lol wish it was once

[@winternight1420]

I remember that when I had my first period I just took my mom’s pads and I hide it for like 3 or 4 months, I didn’t have any questions, it didn’t hurt either. I guess the brief I got beforehand plus school info. actually helped. When my mom finally came to know, she was shocked that I didn’t tell and that I wasn’t scared. LOL

[@heatherfeather1293]

Ahhh, the old "stop feeling sorry for yourself." Heard that for years and I have bipolar disorder with some pretty nasty depression cycles. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized it WASN'T my fault. That phrase still triggers me though

[@DJarry394]

Yeah. You don't tell someone to stop feeling sorry for themselves. That is pure gaslighting. This era was put upand shut up. I grew up in the 1960s, and we were groomed to please everyone. Smile and be mindlessly happy. I did not fit the mold. I was a tomboy, determined to not be sugar and and spice. I refused to be like that. Being able to see through that BS was not "nice"

[@merryprawn]

I have bipolar too and I did cut off communication with my cousin for months after she told me something similar to stop being sorry for myself. Years passed, I'm talking to her again but I still haven't forgiven her and I don't know if I'll ever be able to.

[@kathaqua]

When I was a teenager in the 1970s, girls who had cramps were told they were in our head. Cramps were a character weakness. It wasn’t until the 1980s that it was discovered the pain was real and due to prostaglandins.

[@saraht855]

If you're on your period, don't lift sofas with one hand* *Periods may or may not give you super strength

[@danyellejones5871]

Lol

[@izzywoods794]

😂😂😂

[@cecilyerker]

Honestly I thought it was because you’re going to get a huge gush of blood from straining to lift🩸

[@GEKENILWORTH]

It's interesting how reference to periods changes over time. These days, I hear women say they are "on" their periods. I was a teenager way back in the 60s, and we always said we "had" our periods. Just some trivia!

[@deborahhanna6640]

My mom just said it was like we would be more prone to strain our organs during this time. But she was actually raised by her grandmother. Think they both actually believed they would rupture something irreparable with hernia if they carried the canister vacuum cleaner upstairs. To be fair, it was heavy & ungainly.

[@frederic5974]

Today I learned: Disney made an educational short movie about the period.

[@thiomy]

Fred Eric well.. I think because Walt Disney had a few daughters.. Guess he Wan to educate them

[@frederic5974]

@@thiomy sounds logical to me.

[@midlight9758]

At EPCOT they used to have a Wonders of Life pavilion, they had a whole “how babies were made” film. I had walked into the theatre not realizing what it was.

[@frederic5974]

@@midlight9758 that's actually hilarious xD

[@paigiewagie7796]

Tia and Tamara were in the period video I watched !

[@marajadewisterman136]

Omg it's so funny that Disney made this because I started my period when I was 12, while I was at Magic Kingdom, Disney World.

[@PlatonicPluto]

_magical blood_

[@MimicMimicMimic]

@@PlatonicPluto Yes 🤌🏼😌🤌🏼

[@traceyhughes8440]

My year group was shown a video about periods when we were all around 13/14 (already too late to be a shock for most of us). I'll never forget the scene - a serene lady walks into a country style kitchen carrying a wicker basket and proceeds to talk to the camera about how to care for yourself during a period, all the while unpacking her shopping from said basket which entirely consisted of a huge array of sanitary products which she proceeded to arrange on the table in front of her. Our sniggering become laughter as more and more packs of pads and tampons came out of the basket. It was one of the most unintentionally funny videos I've ever seen. It contained no pertinent information other than "use these products".

[@emilydillon9238]

I like to ask my kids, "what do you think it is" before I answer. It can help to reveal more misconceptions that you ever realized were possible.

[@pamelahofman1785]

Very smart!

[@mi4johns]

...As long as you are prepared for some pretty wild off-the-wall answers & don't immediately burst out laughing 😜

[@comradewindowsill4253]

I was always afraid to answer that sort of question, cause my parents weren’t very good at telling me I was wrong without mocking me

[@heyt761]

Lmao when I got it I thought I was dying

[@nunureds837]

Same here. When I had a menstruation/reproduction talk with my 8 and 10 y.o.s , I asked them what they thought a "period" was and my 8 y.o. said "it's a red dot" (thanks to the feminine hygiene product commercials that showed a friendly dot dancing along in the ad) 😂

[@kun9fufu]

I've always had extremely long and heavy periods to the extent that I need to have iron infusions. One day my haematologist was on holiday and I saw another haematologist for my check up instead and when I told him my periods last 8 to 10 days (8 when I'm exercising) he just wouldn't believe me. He tried to mansplain to me how periods are max 7 and I was like bro do you even doctor? Edit: thanks for all the replies guys. It's so interesting reading all your stories and experiences 💪💪💪

[@kaciemoser8915]

When my gyn was on maternity leave, I had to see a male gyn in that office. No bedside manner and told me that periods are not that bad and it’s all in my head. When he saw that I see a mental health professional, he said how could he know if I was even mentally sound enough to make decisions regarding my reproductive health.

[@MrsLawrence47]

Kacie Moser oh my life I have no words

[@shankaka_99]

FFRLZ how do you even say no to that? When a girl says, “I counted the days, it’s EIGHT” LIKE YOU CANT JUST SAY NOOOOOPE

[@maddoghills7202]

FFRLZ I have periods that last 8 days, screw him

[@kun9fufu]

@@kaciemoser8915 what a misogynistic trashbag!

[@deborahhedges9710]

This was the exact same movie they made us watch in 1976 in the sixth grade! I remember the girl combing her hair and then crying. Thank you for showing this!!

[@LazEden]

“You still have to love with people, and yourself” Damn

[@LaedeeTyme]

"no matter how you feel, you have to live with people." honestly, me on a regular basis

[@lauriivey7801]

yeah .... and periods don't even figure into it - LOL!

[@autumnpendleton1396]

And living with yourself. Yikes forever

[@yvonnethompson844]

tell you what though, on my positive days, i feel and seem to put my look together better,

[@8toberistAlt]

would the reason disney would tell girls to not do “extreme” activities be since their feminine care supplies were different and not necessarily suited for those kinds of activities?

[@timecrayon]

More or less. They had tampons and pads at the time. But this video (as someone else told in the comments) is made by Disney and more importantly Kotex, who produced pads. They didn't want you to use tampons because they were sold by their rival company.

[@nharris2938]

@@timecrayon that and tampons were viewed as "dirty"(for lack of a better word). There was still a belief that tampons can take your virginity or introduce you to sexuality.

[@butterflysenshi15]

@@nharris2938 Funny enough, I think a better scare tactic would be that you could lose those tampons in the fairy cave (all of you reading remember a time where you or a friend had that situation happen. Tell me I'm wrong).

[@shortstack8995]

Erijakat Vanporanglish Exactly what I was going to suggest!

[@Areyousayingidontknowmyname]

@@nharris2938 LOL the last thing i was thinking about was sex when using a Tampon. Although i am in no doubt their is something on porn hub about it.

[@missmold312]

My mom told me when I was a kid that I was only able to have babies after I was married, but never explained how they were made. My teacher wasn’t married and had a kid and I was so confused because I was told they only were made after you were married, and I was so fearful I would randomly get pregnant because I had no clue how it happened. I thought it was just random when you were married. Thank god someone else told me how it really happens lmao

[@jessicabates4440]

I had a health teacher in high school that made us all make a funny presentation about how the sperm gets to the egg. And I remember making mine star wars themed and the sperm and egg were characters. 🤣 educational lol

[@DJarry394]

I would have loved to see that

[@InnannasRainbow]

I remember watching this in the 70s in school. We were told to 'keep your head up and stop feeling sorry for yourself.' when we had cramps. I knew a girl who started her period at age 9. I had about 3-4 periods a year. It's obvious men wrote the script.

[@chakagomez8129]

i had to watch this in the 70s too. smjle sister smile

[@hannahmontana4401]

oh yea duh

[@heatherratliff1813]

I watched it in the 80's

[@alexander_yoko]

But why would you feel sorry? It's normal to have a period and cramps.

[@pikachuneoncat6480]

@@alexander_yoko Hormones and also cramps hurt like a bitch.

[@huneyhenderson8593]

I am actually impressed they told girls to fix themselves up. Its more progressive than you think. In an age when depression was not talked about this was a good thing.Having suffered from sever depression this is actually one of the things we fight to do. for the time make up would have been normal. They are telling girls it goes you confidence and makes you feel better. Its incomplete but true. One of the hardest things for me to do was to shower and get dressed. When I could do it consistently I did feel better. How you look is important. you don't need to be a supermodel but not being a complete dirty slob, common in depression, is important. Clean and fixed can help alleviate depression some. I think this is what they were aiming for. We are so ready to put on the feminist judgment hat we miss something which may be important. Probably could have said it better but great effort for trying at the time this came out.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

Someone also pointed out the treatment for mental illness in the 1940s was very grim. If you couldn’t talk yourself out of it the only thing they could give you was wide awake ECT.

[@dr.liajavadi5051]

Freudian psychotherapy, introduced to the psychiatric field in Europe in the 1890, was big by the 1940's, and psychiatrists were also using stimulant medications to treat depression in the 1940's. Phenobarbital was in use by then, and some of the old, pre-Penicillin antibiotics also had antidepressant properties. This was the WW II era, which followed the Great Depression, and war is good for the economy. By the 1940's, there was money to spend on less drastic, less Draconian treatments than ECT. ECT was mostly reserved for severe depression that didn't respond to other forms of treatment. Even schizophrenia was treated more often with heroin and opium, starting in the mid-1800's, than with ECT. (Schizophrenia actually responded pretty well to heroin and opium.) ECT came back into favor in the 1950's when it was used on recalcitrant housewives and other phenomenon the people in power couldn't control, like military PTSD, homosexuality, and criminal insanity. This was the era of Senate Operations Committee Chairman Joseph McCarthy (who was clinically paranoid) and the Great Red (Communism) Scare. Mental health treatments are very politically driven; never let anyone tell you they are not.

[@515aleon]

I'm a trans guy in my 70s, ah yes, the great Disney get married and have babies with accurate info thrown in. I do recall the confusion the lack of information on how babies are made aspect (obviously this was not entirely the whole of my "sex ed" but was much of it). Mom wasn't much help either. "When you're older" basically covered it. Gotta love the no dancing wild, guess our generation had enough of that one. No doubt "caused" the twist. You do a great and humorous job.

[@b0xbrain]

I'm a transmasc in their 20s and older trans folks like you are such an inspiration to me to keep going. I hope you're doing well, sending love ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

[@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991]

Wasn't 1946 about when the jitterbug was becoming popular, or was already popular? Boys flipping girls over their shoulders and around their torsos was probably considered a pretty wild style of dancing! "Stick to the waltz, ladies!" 😂

[@RS49059]

When I was pregnant with my youngest my oldest was 5 and has always been very curious about everything and is very mature and intelligent for his age so pretty early on we had to decide what we were gonna tell him when he asked how a baby got in my tummy. It had to be believable and something that when he's older we can just be like hey remember this and just expand on jt. We ended up settling on this.. Mommy's have baby blueprint cells and daddy's have worker cells. So when a mommy and daddy want to make a baby the daddy gives the mommy the worker cells and then the workers have to find the blueprints. After they find them then they take them to the mommy's tummy and start to build the baby. He decided after his brother was born that his brother's blueprints must have been hidden in my toenails because "he's useless and ugly!" 😂

[@Chakrenqueen]

That's an awesome way to explain it 😅 need to remember it for my children later on on life 👌

[@kimberlyjones8152]

@@Chakrenqueen same im so using this

[@ashleyw6160]

This has got to be the best,still technically honest & very age appropriate explanation for conception. May I ask what you told him about the actual birth?

[@RS49059]

@@ashleyw6160 like most kids he assumed I was going to poop him out 😂 and was scared and didn't want me to give birth because he's had painful/big poops before and kept going on and on about how the baby was going to make my butt bleed 😂😂😂 So we told him I was going to pee the baby out because peeing had never hurt him before and when he asked why I didn't just pee him out at home we told him we had to go to the hospital because our toilet wasn't big enough and the baby might hit it's head but the hospital had special toilets with lots of water and it was good to have a doctor around for when the baby came out just incase the cells didn't put something together the right way or read the blueprints wrong

[@samanthakulppi5729]

What a witty little comedian😂😂😂

[@3catsn1dog]

This movie was still being used in the 1960s. Parents in the 1960s liked to pretend sex didn't exist and then get upset when their teenage daughter got pregnant.

[@AutumnOue]

I was raised by my grandparents. They NEVER talked about sex. but they expected me to automatically know that I'm supposed to wait till marriage. How the hell do you expect me to do that when you refuse to talk about it. They avoided talking to me about anything that made them uncomfortable. It wasn't fair, I had no one to turn to when I had a question.

[@donnakaye2015]

I grew up in a small town with a small school budget. I saw this in 1975! We even laughed at it then.

[@donnakaye2015]

@Darth Traya I've heard of women who think that but not into their late 20's! I have known some who think you cannot get pregnant while breastfeeding. One friend was blest with babies 10 months apart because of that very belief.

[@aliasilver_636]

Yeah... its not just for people in the 1960’s. Pretty much any oppressive religion today will cause you to act like that when talking about anything to do with this.

[@jinjoon2148]

My country is still stuck in the 1960'sy mum still thinks that sex before marriage is sin and if a woman gets pregnant accidentally they are just paying for the sins of premarital sex

[@julaclaumassaglia6115]

I love that you mentioned that the cyst because when I was about 12 years old, I had very very strong cramps and the child's doctor found the cyst and advised my mother that I should have my ovary removed since I might have cancer or a tumor... it ended up going away by itself and turned out to be something completely normal, but my mother was worried about my health and, at such a young age and lacking proper information on the topic, I was terrified

[@fanmagicks]

In the 80s I don't remember having a "real" conversation with a doctor that didn't end up with the Dr telling me my 'intense pain' was in my mind. I was being "overly dramatic" according to my parents (esp. my dad if I started crying for "no reason"). I FINALLY got help in 2007 (24 years too late IMHO) and got rid of that offending organ!

[@juliannabaltes4242]

My parents never had the sex talk with me I had to learn everything from school and the internet. Please don’t let that be your children

[@AmsYourRave]

Amen. Actually, a few years back I asked my mom why she never sat me down to have the talk, and she said (and I quote), "I kinda thought you'd figure it out eventually." Eventually I did, and it was a very uncomfortable situation. Of course, I read my mom's pregnancy magazines a lot when I was around 4 and 5 years old (okay, I couldn't read, but they had pictures of eggs and sperm and growing fetus', so that worked). But I digress. I'm definitely talking with my children about this stuff when they're comfortable with it. I was unfortunate...

[@spleens4200]

AmsYourGirl - Kaistell Rave my mom did the same thing, but it was because I was figuring it out online and everything she mentioned it, I’d get panicky because I thought I was too young! I still feel like I am but I’m 17 so... yeah xD

[@aprilmay1061]

@@spleens4200 You're not too young sweetie. Stay informed. It's helpful to know your body.

[@KaitlynBurtonISaGOD]

Same I kind if figured it out around dirty minded people and I'm 14

[@GrayGoosey1134]

I learned everything from my friends and the internet. My parents never gave me the sex talk either and still think I am naive and innocent. I am 19.

[@jessicasnow9007]

I feel like you could see this and then still have no idea what the blood in your underwear was about.

[@sheilas1283]

Jessica Snow I agree. Was blood even mentioned?

[@laikaperraespacial6025]

@@sheilas1283 nop

[@mystii8134]

Jessica Snow I mean it did mention blood stream.

[@cynthiaramsey8934]

It did mention that blood will come out when the lining of the uterus is shed.

[@mystii8134]

Cynthia Ramsey hmm but what child will remember that bit?

[@MtnNerd]

I think the dancing thing might have been an innuendo. Going dancing was the most common kind of date night back then. Also this is better than my grandmother telling me that my period was toxins leaving my body.

[@roxassora2706]

How is that true?

[@AcanthaRayneOakMoon]

I remember watching a film called Circle of Friends, set in Ireland and a conversation between a group of 'teenage' girls had the line "I think it's a strange thing to want to do. Like putting your finger up someone else's nose." I still laugh.

[@charissascrazy242]

My family traveled a lot when I was a kid, and we had to stop at some pretty sketchy public restrooms many many times. My mom was always terrified that I would get kidnapped if I waited for her outside the stall, so I'd just hang out in her stall while she was doing her business. I saw her change out a pad/tampon so many times and heard her talking frankly about the entire business that, on the day I started my first period, I just looked down at my bloody underwear and thought, "well.....shit, there it is." Wasn't scared at all.

[@lorenapacora1526]

routine. when i was really little my mom would take me into the shower with her cuz it was faster than me doing it alone xD and sometimes she said i couldmt because she was on her period and she would explain what that is and what it meant. even with all the info i got i still got traumatized bc i didnt want to have it🤣

[@fannyyyyyyyy]

Lol same

[@lucindastreets6492]

Lol me too, exactly!

[@verasileikis17]

I was born in ‘54 and my mother yelled at me around ‘64 to “Go into your room!”. (She was a complicated person). She threw a copy of that silly book on to my bed and said, “Read it!” and slammed the door behind her. My recollection of how the world worked back then was that there was no opportunity to politely reference any part of the human body between the neck and the knees. Disapproval of our existence, (females), was not overtly demonstrated but it was sadly perpetrated by our mothers. My first inkling of sex was when a classmate described what we didn’t know was a sex act that she had secretly witnessed between her older brother and sister!!! Incest wasn’t something we’d hear about for years. My response to the graphic description was that it was too gross to even think about and I would certainly never participate in that sort of activity. The only thing we heard about the wedding night was the sage advice, “Lie back and think of England.” The woman’s movement saved more of us than we can calculate. To be dragged out of the darkness of ignorance was wonderful.

[@victoriawisswell9660]

Oh jeez, that's horrifying for a little girl! We truly have come a long way. When I was in 5th grade in '99, girls and boys were put in separate classrooms and were taught by teachers of the same sex. We were taught about girl puberty, including periods, first. The boys were freaking out, and would avoid all interaction with girls. Once we began talking about boy puberty, some girls freaked out at the word "penis" and wouldn't even look at the pictures in the book. I have brothers, thus it didn't bother me.

[@765respect]

The women's movement needs allot more recognition than it gets. Birth control was a game changer in women's lives. We finally had control of our bodies. My children and grandchildren don't appreciate what women went through to get to where we are now. Nor my husband for the matter. The kids seem to have children all willy nilly now, almost like what we sought didn't matter. I sought to have children when I wanted and how many and to be able to enjoy my body.

[@LittleImpaler]

Did your mom even love you?

[@raerohan4241]

@@765respect I don't mean to be rude, but birth control was meant to give women a _choice_ , not force them to have less kids. If the younger generations choose to have many kids, that's not disrespectful to the women that fought for the pill. As long as the choice was made by themselves, not someone else, they're still exercising the freedoms that the previous generations struggled to obtain for them.

[@jadedmist]

@@LittleImpaler I dont want to ever give birth, and I find it disgusting that certain procedures need male approval. Having a male doctor try and take control of my body when he will never see me again hurts my brain.

[@KayBlenard]

Lol, the part about 'looking good' reminded me of a pregnancy book I was given when expecting my son, which said something to the effect of making sure your hair and makeup was done before your husband came to visit. This was only 16 years ago...!

[@paulas2218]

My mother was a woman of the 40’s and I remember her telling me not to be a whiney woman who complains about her period! She was also big on sitting up straight. Haha! 😂

[@mmmmmmolly]

I never try to catch a cold, the cold usually catches me. I can't help it if I'm such a catch.

[@JewishGay]

This is the most underrated comment here and I am living for it 😆

[@quintonmartin27]

That explains why I don't normally get sick

[@asha_vere]

Lol nice

[@j.c.2240]

For something made in '46, this isn't too horribly inaccurate.

[@greenheadmetalchips6669]

For something made for kids and being general for the sake of their understanding, she's just trying to sound smart. Like "Wow I can't" Disney: so the hormones Her: ACTUALLY IT'S -specific hormone name that kids don't need to know She isn't providing with any valid criticism

[@j.c.2240]

@@greenheadmetalchips6669 Of course she's going to specify. She's an OBGYN, meaning she specializes in women's health. Her audience is primarily adults women who want to know more about their health. What, do you want her to not go into detail about her medical field? Then why watch if that's the case?

[@adaharrisonn]

@@greenheadmetalchips6669 yeah, the video is fantastic. Don't know why this response needed to exist.

[@skeltheshapeshifter2697]

@@adaharrisonn It's just like, she's nitpicking everything. Yes, she should clarify everything, but this video is almost 100 years old, in a very different time and societal expectations. Of course it's different and outdated.

[@greenheadmetalchips6669]

@@j.c.2240 This isn't about her job, it's cool women want to learn, except she could've made a video specific about that rather than trying to outsmart a children's documentary.

[@RaphEnthusiast]

ah, the video my mom showed me so I would know what my period was. feelin’ nostalgic for back to when my stomach wasn’t trying to kill me

[@TatiannaG]

I really want to see her react to the Adam ruins everything about the hymen. And I’d love her to talk about PCOS.

[@Yobydobie]

When you said “endometrial” I thought you said “enemy troll” and that’s exactly what I feel my periods are

[@IsleNaK]

Then continue with looking up "endometriosis"...? If you haven't yet. And maybe "menstrual cups" too.

[@gateauxq4604]

😂😂😂 thanks i needed that! I guess that makes cramps ‘trolling’?

[@ILoveBonbons1]

Same lol

[@huggledemon32]

Lol I like to refer to mine as “Satan’s waterfall”😡🤷‍♀️😏

[@snm12333]

I heard that too lol

[@LadyWeasel]

A few weeks ago, my 5 year old son innocently asked me "Mommy, how did my life cycle start?" After I was able to not burst out laughing when I talked (loooots of controlled deep breathing) I explained that he grew in my tummy. Then he asked "When did I hatch?" I lost it. I'm a bad mom for breaking out into howling laughter over an innocent kid asking a legitimate question in the only way he knew how. 😬

[@Maerahn]

That reminds me of my son when he was 5! He was telling me about when he grows up, and how he'll "marry my girlfriend and then I'll have a baby." I said "You mean, your girlfriend will have a baby." "No, I'm going to have the baby," he said. I gently explained to him that only girls had babies. "WHY?" he said. I gave him a brief explanation of how only girls had the right 'equipment' to grow the babies in their tummies. The look on his face was pure outrage. "Well, THAT's not fair!" he cried. There was a pause, while he had a think. Then he said "Okay, we'll get a cat instead then."

[@gibgabs2899]

Maerahn love that 😂 what a sweetheart

[@theangelface999]

I mean, that's pretty damn adorable, and absolutely hilarious. I wouldn't feel too bad about it, but do explain that no, we don't hatch. I literally laughed out loud, that was too cute

[@LadyWeasel]

He's really curious and is always asking very specific questions. His imagination is unbelievably vivid. I need coffee.

[@shepherdsatan8877]

Thats me in the future(,:

[@trapadvisor]

Girl your lighting, makeup, outfit, earrings, everything is perfect in this video. You’re glowing

[@paperisfun5219]

"You should experience no extreme discomfort" WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS THEN? A 'TWINGE'? A 'TOUCH OF NERVES'?!

[@ERYN__]

I'd also like a video for boys about menstruation that encourages healthy friendships with girls with the understanding that it's healthy and natural. Girls can still do everything they want to do on their periods, but if they aren't feeling up to it, don't hold it against them. Having good platonic friendships with girls, will make them better boyfriends (if that's what their into) or co-workers, brothers, uncles, and fathers (if that's what they choose).

[@tuvelat7302]

So true. A friend of mine teaches her sons how to deal with potentially awkward moments (a girl has a blood stain on her pants or drops her "supplies" out of her pocket or bag). I thought that was great.

[@povertylevelphilanthropy1524]

Tuvela T that is truly fantastic. Kudos to your friend!

[@ciannacoleman5125]

I had a male friend who made some statement (can’t remember exactly what) and my female friend and I just looked at him like he was crazy and asked if he had any idea how a period worked. It is majorly important for boys to have a basic understanding of this

[@theangelface999]

Dude same, my husband is 32 and I have to explain everything to him, including that we're biologically required to use more toilet paper than boys/men do. If I have a son I'm absolutely talking about all of this with him.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

My mom was a single parent but I have two brothers as well. So between me and her, my brothers grew up hearing about menstruation. And while I'm more of a shy prude, she's a nurse and has no qualms about talking about it, lol.

[@DoulaGarcia]

Wow. I can't think of the last time I lifted an entire couch up above my head to sweep or vacuum the floor.

[@jazz_meh]

According to this you really need to step up your game, but only if you're not on your period :p

[@buggyeyez]

The "track it on a calendar" bit took me back to grade school health class the year I started menstruation and they had given everyone a book on puberty and the girl's one had a little calendar in it and the stigma around periods was (and tbh almost still is) so strong that I was too ashamed to use it or any other secret written down code or calendar for fear someone would see it and track my period and just shame me or write off everything I said or did or felt during my period as just hormones and to be ignored. Granted I wasn't totally irrational in that fear considering how prolific the use of "huh huh huh what are you, on the rag?/must be that time of the month" comments to shut women/dfab people down was when I was hitting the age to become self conscious about it. Anyway screw what jerks say, track your period, it messed up so much for me not doing that from the start. Your health matters more than what idiots have to say about a natural and healthy process they're too immature to speak on in the first place 💜

[@heatherfeather1293]

Oh this is kind of a sad story. My aunt was only 9 when she started hers (this was back in 1961). She was terrified. After days of agonizing in secret, she told my grandmother WHO LAUGHED AT HER. (My grandmother suffered from mental illness but this still struck me as cruel). Thankfully my Mom, who was younger than my aunt, knew what to expect when hers came at age 12.

[@eddykate3700]

Day 4 of my first period was my 10th birthday in 1969, but thanks to my Dad I knew what a period was. My parents had bought and discussed "sanitary" (awful word!) products with me. I became a midwife so talking about periods and pregnancy were common topics of discussion when my daughters were growing up. They were both 11 when their menses began. My granddaughter's periods began last year when she was 9 years and 8 months old.

[@miralyse.3846]

When my daughter was about four years old, we went on an playdate with a boy (same age) from her kindergarden. The kids played in nursery, while his mother and I enjoyed a little quiet time downstairs. At some point I went to check on them. When I opened the door, my daughter was laying on the bed (dressed) and her friend had plastic scissors (from a doctor play set) in his hands. He lifted her shirt a little and went: "Ok, so right up behind the vagina comes the uturus, and we have to cut here to get the baby out." She went: "And then I nurse it." I blinked and left the room. They had that c-section under control. His mom was pregnant at the time, so I guess they had talked about these things just prior.

[@roxiek888]

Miralys E. Woah 😳 no need to interrupt that c-section, needs to be a sterile environment 😂 kids are great

[@rachelporter6077]

That's adorable lol

[@masklophobic9234]

Welp... we know his profession! That's kinda precious of them! I wonder if it's like calming or just good that he's basically mentally preparing for things to come.

[@miralyse.3846]

@@masklophobic9234 The kids are 8 now. They still get along really well. If he actually becomes a doctor and continues to be as attentive and kind, I might have to arrange frequent visits to possibly spark something :-)

[@masklophobic9234]

@@miralyse.3846 Oh! I meant mentally preparing for his Mama to have her C-section. I didn't mean anything by the play dates lol. I'm sorry for not communicating that in the comment!

[@gotitinpink7874]

I would have liked it more if they had actually mentioned "there will be blood and stuff coming out of your hooha" and "this is what you will need to use and how you use it"

[@chaulzebrown9884]

It’s called a vagina.

[@AudraT]

Maybe that's in part 2.

[@nobody8328]

"and stuff". Yes. I was expecting blood like when you cut yourself kinda blood. Not.... that stuff.

[@gotitinpink7874]

@@chaulzebrown9884 i call it "hooha" instead of "vagina" because I like "hooha", not because I don't want to say "vagina"

[@catbirdler]

@@gotitinpink7874 I'm with you. I never liked the word "vagina" either. Sounds like a car part to me lol. Your comment made me laugh, thanks!

[@struudos7575]

How did they know the uterus lining got “velvety” during a menstruation period? UMMM? WTF? DID THEY DO?

[@kerryhelton8760]

Probably in an educational setting they dissected a uterus from a cadaver.

[@struudos7575]

@@kerryhelton8760 that makes sense, and that’s understandable. But what gets me is that the describe the texture, meaning they pet the f*kin uterus lining?? I mean huh?

[@abandonedcharcoal5404]

That may be a way of saying it "thickens" when the egg is released.

[@jesusfreak777ize]

"this is pretty accurate and decent for 7-10 year olds to learn" I wasn't taught this stuff until I was 14 😅

[@KarmaCifer]

"It's common that you can feel awful with pain, but we don't want to be bothered by you so pretend to be ok and suppress your feelings"

[@stacyhigginson170]

There was a girl in my senior class that thought she was being "cool", "gender equality", and "progressive" by saying that you know your period is coming so you should know to control your emotions and that we didn't have an excuse for being emotional 🤦

[@KarmaCifer]

@@stacyhigginson170 jsjksjs it's like saying "you know you are going to get shot, so you have no excuse to die"

[@stacyhigginson170]

@@KarmaCifer exactly lol I think she was just trying to look "cool" in front of the guys

[@Rhaenarys]

As someone who actually has an emotional issue during that time, I dont think is completely bad advice. Over 30 yrs old and one thing I've learned is that it really isnt an excuse to be a crappy person to someone. If you makes you THAT emotional, its prob good to actively try and keep it in check. But.. this has more to do with extreme emotional on the more angry side of it. Not I guess what's considered normal. And yes...snapping at someone for simply asking for something, anything, in passive tone, that didnt warrant that reaction to begin with is a bit extreme I'd say, one I've been guilty of.

[@KarmaCifer]

@@Rhaenarys Yes, it's no excuse to be a crappy person, but here we are talking about repressing your emotions and hiding it to not bother other people. It's not wrong to say you feel bad, that you want a hug and some tea. Sometimes you cry easily and you have to say "sorry, I'm emotional because of hormones" and that. I don't think hormones make you a crappy person, you are just more sensitive and have to ask for people to understand and have patience (not all months, but some months are worse than others for some people)

[@hermenegildakociubinska6665]

I think this badly missed the "you're going to bleed into your knickers" part.

[@Cassxowary]

Nice name!

[@KBish]

I had that same reaction!🥴

[@sarahtaylor7737]

Hermenegilda Kociubińska exactly right!! I’m 38 and I still get caught out sometimes!!

[@jenmedlock]

Agreed. The amount of flow the video shows just sliding right through the vagina looks like amount of mucus in a good sneeze. Some girls would have been in for a serious Come to Jesus moment unless their mothers warned them of the amount of blood they could be facing.

[@clueless_cutie]

Yeah, I knew what a period was but no one ever said how much blood there could be. I was horrified to wake up to a murder scene of my first period (I only slept in a shirt and undies and would tuck my blankets under my legs... so yeah... Blood was EVERYWHERE).

[@wolfmanisdrawing3886]

To be fair to the video when it keeps saying about "catching cold" back in the day if you had a really bad cold you would get secondary problems like pneumonia, chest infections, even tonsilitis which pre-antibiotics being common place to the public times could turn you into a mortuary statistic pretty quick. In 1946 antibiotics were still pretty rare outside of military hospitals in most places around the world.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

Interesting information. I laugh when people say they were born in the wrong century because there's no way I'd want to live in a time without antibiotics!

[@lucticide]

this just made me realize that for the generation disney lived in, he was actually really open minded. pretty sure i havent seen anything like this on cartoon network :’)

[@b0xbrain]

Yeah but like, he was also suuuuper antisemetic

[@elisabethb.131]

I got my first period at age 15 in biology class while watching my teacher draw fallopian tubes on the chalkboard to explain how the hormones worked. Wish I was kidding, but my body just thinks it's hilarious sometimes...

[@weeklyalexa257]

Same here, I got it at 15

[@petrichor9417]

I got mine when I was 13 on a Sunday between 10am and 11am. Guess, why I still remember so clearly... Because I was at church. Probably the weirdest coincidence in my life, lol 😂

[@L0rdOfThePies]

Got it when I was 11 after biology class, wasn't pleased

[@mmmmyeah1849]

I was thirteen and a half. March 22nd 2016. Funny thing is that ten days ago, I kinda got distressed and wore a pad to school. It was so uncomfortable

[@anniecolson1726]

The first time you said "endometrial" I thought you said "enemy troll" and this is how I will be referring to my uterus from now on. 😂😂😂

[@MamaDoctorJones]

🤣🤣 gold.

[@heathergroves4497]

😂

[@WaitingxInxSilence]

Annie Colson I’m filled with enemy trolls each month for a week straight.

[@anniecolson1726]

@@WaitingxInxSilence my enemy troll was so mean I had her burned out viciously and have never looked back. 😂

[@carag2567]

I laughed so hard at this 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@abigailthomas4421]

when i got my first period my parents hadn't told me how long it would last so i sat there crying thinking that i was gonna bleed for the rest of my life

[@kadiebirds]

I'm 66 and this was the video I saw in 7th grade. It brought back memories! It does seem so old-fashioned to me now. By the time I was in high school the curriculum had changed pretty dramatically and we were taught how to put commons on bananas. Anyway, that's for the trip down memory lane and for making me feel as old, haha, as I am and thanks for your channel and the straightforward information you provide.

[@eddykate3700]

I'm 65 and very thankful my parents (my Dad) had open chats about everything. I started my periods for my 10th birthday. Happy Birthday me because my parents had bought "sanitary" products (surfboards) and I got my first bra for my birthday. Later I became a midwife and was giving a lesson to a class to 16 year old Human Development students that I had just met that day. I was demonstrating how to put on a condom but decided to use a very realistic latex penis rather than the old faithful banana. One of the boys who had his feet on his desk, started complaining "Oh Miss, Oh Miss, Can I leave. You are making me feel sick?" I asked him what his name was, told him I was a midwife and explained that midwives help parents with pregnancy, birth and caring for their babies. Then I told him that it might be a better idea if he stayed and watched how to put a condom on because what would make me feel sick is if I had to show him how to change HIS baby's dirty diaper in twelve months time! He quickly took his feet off the desk and stopped commenting! That was 20 + years ago and I often I wondered how many of his babies' diapers he changed!

[@bonzahrn5148]

I think a lot of the “be careful about your exercise” business has to do with the fact that you had to have a sanitary belt.

[@monrque]

I used to go through my grandma's things and she had some old sanitary belts. She explained their used to me. I was certainly glad that things had Advanced so much by the time I was old enough to get my period.

[@risenparanormal2407]

Sanitary belt! Yes, that's what that device was called! Tying and pinning. It was hard to figure out when I was 12.

[@OK-mh2cr]

I just googled what a sanitary belt is. I was today years old when i realized the “extra large wedding garter” in my grandma’s things is a sanitary belt.

[@sarahprice659]

Oh yes! I had forgotten about those!

[@mammamathews]

I thought the same thing. There was a reason they couldn’t do certain things during that time. They didn’t have the products we have today. lol

[@midlight9758]

Maybe you couldn’t dance around crazy because the pads and mensuration products they had back then were lousy.

[@shankaka_99]

Midlight uh. I didn’t think of that.

[@itzpurplesmixz184]

Definitely. My grandma who grew up in the 60s used to tell me how, back in her days, they used to use just straight up sanitary cotton balls, the type they use today to clean up wounds. Assuming America was more technologically advanced then the country my nan grew up in, I'm assuming that or something similar is what they used in the 40s there.

[@shankaka_99]

•Itz•Purple’s•Mixz• I’m almost scared to ask how that worked

[@WelcomeApathy]

@@itzpurplesmixz184 I don't know about the 40s, but in the 60s, they had cloth pads with garter belt type setups with clips to hold them on. They would be washed and reused.

[@natsunohoshi7952]

​@@itzpurplesmixz184 By the time this video came out, I think many women in the US were using a belt & pad combo like these: www.mum.org/belts.htm

[@gypsyjade7170]

My mom told me I had a treasure box and my husband had the key 🔑 that was the entirety of the conversation!!! I did not get it 😂🤣😂🤣

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

I can just picture you thinking you're actually a pirate with buried treasure somewhere...🤣

[@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991]

Almost 46 years later, I still remember what my mom told me regarding pregnancy: "Don't let a boy play with you down there, or else you'll get pregnant." This was the last thing she said after about 10 minutes of telling me about this period stuff, bleeding, and that I'd be doing this about every month for 40 years or more. I was 11. My brother, sister, and I had a game where two of us would lay at either end of the couch, put the bottoms of our feet together, and bicycle our legs, and eventually see who could push whose legs without them being able to push back (leg wrestling, instead of arm wrestling, I suppose 😂). Well, a few weeks after Mom's "talk," my brother (a year younger) & I were playing bicycle, his leg slipped into my crotch, he jiggled his foot for a second, and I pushed his foot away, but I was so scared for a while, until I got my next period, that I was pregnant because a boy had "played with me" down there! Fortunately, a couple of months later, early in 6th grade, probably on the same day we 6th grade girls watched this very film, one of my friends who had older siblings and/or cousins, filled in the details of how babies were made during lunch recess, to the 3 of us who always shared a piece of playground equipment together with her. We were all about 11½ years old, and were properly grossed out!! 😂

[@jesseskulls1239]

I just want to thank you for spreading education and awareness they are not teaching in schools. Will be using your videos for my children to learn from!

[@christianablikstad3008]

I saw a dermatologist in my teens who insisted that because my periods weren’t 4 weeks apart that they weren’t regular. They were normal; my cycle was just five weeks long instead of four. It still bothers me.

[@healinggrounds19]

Dermatologist was male, right?

[@christianablikstad3008]

Science Fiction Double Feature no it was actually a woman.

[@healinggrounds19]

@@christianablikstad3008 even MORE frustrating!!

[@adde9506]

I had 5 week cycles, too. I miss them so much. I also have really horrible cramps for several days and a 14 day period. The OBGYN tried me on BC to tame the bad parts... All it did was shorted my non-bleeding days by a week. Dermatologist was useless about the acne, too, but she never said much more about my period than that my acne might cycle with it.

[@pcbassoon3892]

When I'm not on birth control, I have like 6 week periods. She would have thought I was dying.

[@chloemaxwell5508]

Petition for Mama to make an ACCURATE short film on periods for young women and girls.

[@Bug._.S0up]

I would sign

[@krisaaron5771]

I'll sign, fer sure!! And, please, include information on birth control.

[@e.g.2261]

Please! I still know so little!

[@Theyfwbailey]

Yes

[@happyeaster15]

Take my signature!

[@imnotagoodperson4446]

My mom taught me how babies were made when I was 6. It was a more thorough education than what I got in school. That was in the early 2000’s

[@Droemar]

I think what surprises me more about how accurate this is is how little we as a society have absorbed the information.