An absorbent article, preferably a sanitary napkin, having a body-facing side,
a garment-facing side, a length, a width, and two longitudinal side margins. The
sanitary napkin has a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet joined
to the topsheet, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the
backsheet. A pair of flaps are provided, each flap extending from a longitudinal
side margin and each of the flaps are folded over the topsheet in a topsheet facing
relationship. The flaps are maintained in the topsheet facing relationship by an
enclosed pouch having a wipe article disposed therein. In a preferred embodiment
the wipe article is a wet wipe. In a further embodiment, the absorbent article
is an individually packaged sanitary napkin having a releasable wrapper affixed
to the backsheet adhesive, and provided in a tri-folded package.
