What did baby boomers do? (Women only) ..?
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My Boomer Tips
What did "Women" do during the baby boomers when you had your menstrual periods? Did such tampons and pads exist in the 1940's (estimation) eras? If so, I wonder what women used in the 1700's & 1800's? Who invented the tampons and pads?
Forget it. Found a good link to the invention on the pads:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_napkin
Being a "boomer" I can tell you we used to use pads and belts to hold them on. They didn’t have the "peel and stick to your panties" kind back then. They were thick and awkward pads with "tails" at each end that you attached to an elastic belt you wore under your panties. Or you could use safety pins and pin the pads to your panties.
Before these "convienent pads" women used to just use folded pieces of material (cloth) that they would wash out, dry and reuse.
I am not sure when tampons arrived. . .
I’m sure you can research "first tampon" or" tampon invented" and answer some of this, but before them, women used rags and washed them out by hand.
ask someone you trust!
In the ’40′s and way long before that, women used soft clean absorbent cloth during menstrual cycles. I don’t know who invented the pad or tampon, but you can be sure it wasn’t a woman (considering the first ones to be available)!
My mother (now in her 50′s) told me once that she’d gotten her period while staying with her grandmother but didn’t have anything, so my great-grandmother ripped up a bunch of old rags into small strips for her to use.