More Useful Stuff
Downloads, information about refill products, and brilliant sources of information on periods and puberty
PoGo Password
Supplied with your PoGo Pack™ is the PoGo PASSWORD. The password will take you to the PoGo Girls' Page where you can download:
- the Essential Information pamphlet
- more PoGo Period Planners
- details on where to get more of the sanitary pads in the PoGo Pack™
IMPORTANT NOTE: Only girls who own a PoGo Pack™ have permission to access The PoGo Girls' Page on the website, and you are not allowed to share the password or the information on the PoGo Girls' Page with anyone else. Please ask your parent (or another adult who is responsible for you) to read our Terms & Conditions about the password before you continue.
Books
The following books are our favourites. They give loads of great information just for young girls about periods, puberty, growing up, staying healthy, when and where to get help, and much, much more. We think they are suitable for girls aged 11 and upwards.
Follow the links to buy your copies from Amazon.
Websites
The following websites will give you more information about periods and puberty, and there are also some interactive parts you might like to try.
Please ask a parent or carer for their permission to go onto the websites – or maybe ask them to look at them with you!
- www.likeitis.org/periods.html
- This is run by Marie Stopes, the international charity that provides sexual and reproductive health information. It has a fantastic section on periods, and information for older teenagers.
- www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/articles/lifecycle/teenagers/periods.shtml
- An excellent interactive site from the BBC that shows how a girl's body develops and what happens to her body during periods.
- www.lifebytes.gov.uk
- LifeBytes is a government website that gives young people aged 11–14 facts about health in a fun and interesting way. Click on "Sex and Relationships" for the section about periods.
- www.addenbrookes.org.uk/serv/clin/shac/advice/your_body/female/periods.htm
- Addenbrookes is an NHS teaching hospital. The information is simple but very helpful.