Being a mum to a young lady...

Ok, so I wasn't too sure where to start with this or who to ask and I was sure that this would be a good place to start as alot of us have young ladies it seems around the same age or older at the moment.

I am fully aware that the next 2 years holds alot for Paris... from what i can see by the time they are 9-ish, most girls are starting to really start tranforming into those tweens.

Ok so here's my question really, Paris is a very active wee lady, tearing about the place she hops skips and jumps her way through the day.

Today she came up to hug me and I was like "WTF?" She had this, hhm how can i say, She had a teenagery BO smell. This completely took me aback because I was fairly sure that so far I have never had this from her ever no matter how much she's sweated and torn about the place.

Of course I just quietly talked to her about a few of her friends that she knew who are all about 9 or 10 and are very obviously changing, and how our bodies change a bit in the next few years. I then took her and gave her a wee small spray of my deodorant under each arm - just a spritz.

Has anyone else had this at this age? what age did you have to start getting your girl some deodorant of her own?

What am I in for? I have absolutely no idea where to go from here. It's the start of very unchartered waters, any advice from those who have been there, even just slightly ahead of me, would be wonderful.

HELP!!

Edited by mum2paris

Im not sure how old your daughter is...but I don't recon it matters what age they are...if they need deoderant, then just get it for her. I cant remember how old my daughter was when she first started getting BO, but it was pretty young. She was also pretty young when she started wearing a bra and aslo when she got her first period.
Sounds like you handled it pretty well.
I would just start talking to her about how her body is changing and now how its important that she cleans under her arms well each day. I think with my daughter I bought her some body spray to use and moved onto proper deoderant a bit later when it was every day that she would get BO smells. I recon it is much better to talk to them about puberty when they are younger because they don't get so silly and giggly about it all when they are older.
Don't be scared about it all, its a great time to have some one on one with your daughter and some really fun girly chats with her. I used to combine chats with my DD about puberty and stuff with also how girls behave and tried to encourage her to be a 'nice' girl rather than a catty girl IYKWIM. Stuff like standing up for yourself and your friends and not getting involved with teasing etc.
I bet she will love having her own body spray or deoderant as it will be something special that she has that her little sister doesnt.

Good luck!

I dont envy you there....mind you at least you have girls and not stinky boys to look forward to (yeuk). DH hit puberty early (as in was shaving in third form when I met him) so I'm expecting it early in the boys....and hoping like hell for them that it doesnt happen. I was nearly 12 with my period and bra around then too (though it was not necessary looking back).

Do you want her to have deoderant now? I know I'd be hesitant at starting so young. Is she washing well and often? Is she coming down with something? If she is unwell she might smell funny (just clutching at straws here). I'd also be tempted to try a natural deoderant too. but thats me, I worry about all these thing with our littlies....but not myself.

OH man....I hadn't even thought about this stuff....