I feel the same as you Liza. There’s no embarrassment at all associated with starting your period and my two daughters discuss it freely in our home and amongst their friends. When I was overseas one of them even called their grandma to ask her to go and buy them the tampons they needed but to have a roomful of women who of which some of them they don’t have that type of intimate relationship with, come to toast that their bodies have matured, would mortify them