I am 12 years old in 7th grade. I was at school today and went to use the restroom and there was reddish brown in my underwear I dismissed it not thinking much of it and then it kept happening. I told my friend about it because I wasn’t having any cramps and she said she didn’t have cramp with her first period do I immediately told my mom and sister
My 1st period came the day i was talking to my best friend, telling her i was left out because i didnt have it! I was in the toilet and i wiped and saw red again and again so i ran down to my mum and she gave me a pad and we went for a drive to talk. I called my best friend and she thought i was lying. I have had my period 5-6 now and i love it, although it is sometimes uncomfortable, i find it very cleansing.
ok so i am on my 2nd period right now and i got my period a month from today on july 26th 2015 so im gonna tell you all about it!
ok so like 4 days before i got my period i was getting very light cramps and i was imagining this is what the light cramps you get before your period feel like so i was thinking maybe im gonna get my period soon but i didnt want it expeccially because i would be the first one out of my friends to get it.. so i didnt really think about it but i still had the light cramps but also my boobs were very tender and when someone would hug me i would say ow and i was getting very minor headaches and i was getting food cravings for food i dont even like but at the time i didnt know these were signs of getting your period so on a monday my brother and i were on this ride kinda thing about niagara falls and it rains on you in it and i felt myself like dribble in my pants a little bit which i thought was just pee at first! but when i got home i went to go pee and when i pull down my pants there was brown stuff in my underwear and it was just like how blood would look but brown but at first i thhought i pooped myslef but then im thinking what about those cramps i was getting.. am i on my period? so then i turn the other side and i look and it soaked through the other side and its the same amount and as much colour as it was where my actual vagina sits lol so then im thinking poo doesnt do that so then i smell it and it didnt smell like poo it smelled like a very light smell and not very strong so i threw them in the garbage and looked up signs of getting yoyr period and all of the signs i realized ive gotten all of them this past week and i also have pubic hair and they said its normal to start brown so then i thought omg i just got my period! but i wasnt 100% sure so i didnt tell my mom and i was kinda thinking about it the whole rest of the evening and night and then it was like 10:30 and i was thinking oh ya i need to have a shower tonight so i went upstairs getting ready for my shower but first i had to go pee so i was checking in my pee to see if any blood would be there and at the very end there was like 4 little drops of blood in the toilet and even though i was expecting it i was shocked and when i went to wipe there was blood on the toilet paper and everytime i wiped there was blood and i just started crying and crying and i was like balling in the shower because i was thinking how am i gonna tell my friends and i cznt just go around not telling them because when i do stuff like that i feel guilty because of my anxiety and also i saw a little blood clot on the bathroom floor as well when i was in the shower so once i got out of the shower i was still and upset but not crying as much and my mom came upstairs and shes like im going to bed now and im like wait because i knew i had to tell her but i was about to cry any second my voice was cracking so i went on my notes on my phone and i wrote i have to tell you something and she said what and i said something happened and she said what u can tell me and then i wrote blood and then she understood but i had my phone covering my face and she asked am i upset about it and then i cracked and started balling again and i was crying for a while and then i had to put on a liner becaue she didnt have pads that were for like tweens only adult ones so the next morning she got me pads and then took me shopping!:) and ten i got the brown stuff the day after and the day after that it was bright red blood and quite alot this time! so thats my story and btw this was the summer of going into grade 7 and it still is bc this is my second month getting it and im fine now!!
Ok well, I was in grade 3 when I first got mine, my friend was sleeping over my house and I was getting in the shower when I noticed blood on my underwear, my mum and I had talked about what to do plenty of times before so I didn’t really freak out too much. So anyways, I called out to my friend and told her that I had cut my foot and asked her if she could go and get my mum but that was just a cover up. My mum came and I told her that I just got my period and she was like ok here’s a pad and showed me how to put it on. After that, my friend didn’t notice or ask so I was pretty much good. It was really awkward for me though because I was only like 9 and none of my friends talked about them or had had theirs before so I was really embarrassed and told no one. And still to this day (I’m 14 and in grade 8) I haven’t been able to openly talk about it with my friends and even my best friend, and I feel guilty because she instantly told me about hers and treated it like no big deal but I’m still too embarrassed to tell her.
So I had brown discharge for a while and I was scared af that my period would be right around the corner. But it wasn’t, till a month or so there was more discharge, and then I wipe and there’s blood.. I was panicing in my head saying “OMG this can’t be really, this is just some more discharge just a little red…”. So I decided to keep it hiden from my mom. I search up in Google, how to tell my mom I just had my period and all that stuff on periods, and I just get more and more sad. It’s now been 4 days since I had my period and I still hadn’t told my mom till the 4th day when she comes out and says that we are having a surprise vacation and I was just like “OH NO” in my head. So we start to pack and I sneak in one of her pads and I took it and put it in my underwear.. I took a quick shower cause I heard that kinda stops ur period(FYI it actually does) so my period on the road was basically really light for the 9 hour drive. But as soon as we get to the hotel it starts again and it’s really heavy! It seeps threw my underwear and is starting to get on my pants and I just start balling in the bathroom. I finally come out and I start to follow my mom everywhere till she started to unpack her pads. And then in my head I kept saying “THIS IS UR CHANCE” so I finally stop her in the most whinny voice (because I was so embarrassed and I was on the edge of crying) I start to say “Mom *points to the pads*. My mom was really supported and hugged me and said here go in the bathroom and change. Then the next day she ask if I had a heavy or light flow, and then we got pads.. I’m so glad I told her tho.. (I was 12… )
So today I got it. I’m 12 btw, and a couple years ago I had this puberty class thing so I knew all about it. My mom had also given me some pads a little while ago, so I was prepared but I wasn’t really expecting to get it. This morning/around noon I went with my dad and bro to play tennis, but that was pretty much all I had to do today besides some chores around the house. Lucky me, at least I wasn’t at school or a party or something. (I was kind of hoping id get it this summer just so I wouldn’t have to deal with worrying about an accident at school) A while after I got back from tennis, I went to the bathroom and saw a patch of brown stuff, with a hint of red. I’ve had discharge before, and I know about spotting, so I wasn’t sure if it was my period or something else. I know pretty much what it is and how it works and what to do, I just didn’t know if I’d actually gotten it.
After that i changed underwear and figured out how to put a pad on. I spent basically the whole day looking on the Internet and trying to figure out if I got my period or not which is how I found this blog.
An hour after putting the pad on (I set a timer bc I really wanted to know) I checked again and there wasn’t any blood or brown stuff, just a faint hint of red/clear. That made me less sure if I got it but I decided to wait longer.
After dinner I checked one more time and a similar colored blob was in my underwear so I decided to tell my mom, even if it wasn’t.
I texted her and told her the whole story and everything she might want to know, with as little detail as possible, making sure she knew I didn’t know if it actually was my period. That way, I could phrase it like a question. I was wayy too scared and way too awkward to tell her in person, and I knew she would come talk to me but I tried to give her as little to talk about as possible.
She texted me that I probably got it, and then came to talk to me about how I was growing up and she was happy for me and blah blah blah. It was incredibly awkward and she talked about what she usually does, and how heavy the flow could be and cramps and everything and what I should do. She mentioned that now if i had sex I could get pregnant #extremelyawkward but I was relieved once it was over and glad I told her.
That was only like 10 minutes ago and I’m so glad it happened the way it did, I’ve read a few horrifying first period stories and mine was pretty much the best I could ask for. Even if it was a day of stressing out over nothing and a reallyyyy awkward talk with my mom, I’m glad the anticipation is over.
The funny thing is yesterday I was with my friend, and I btw I have basically two groups of friends, even if some of them know each other. The first is from school and we would never talk about stuff like this but the second is a group of girls a little older than me (im the youngest and the oldest is 15) anyways she was telling me how she and everyone else in that group had already gotten it, and i told her nope I still haven’t. But now I have bahaha.
Tbh I don’t really know what to expect for the next few days of my period, hopefully there won’t be tooooooo much blood.
WOW I wrote a lot. Sorry for wasting your time if anyone’s reading this lol. I was just kinda getting it off my chest since I’m not telling my mom details and my friends would be like tmi.
So far, my first periods been okay I guess.
December 6th, 2013- somehow during a birthday party for my friend, we all were sitting in her room and first period stories began spilling. Around the circle, all of then shared and despite me assuming I was so much more mature than my friends, I was the only one at that party without mine. When the circle got to me, akward silence ensued, and I’m not quite sure how I eventually brushed over it.
Since the first time my mother had ever told me about periods (I was 7, my sister was 11, and she randomly told us in a strict impatient voice that when we got older we would bleed once a month, and it was nice of her to tell us that so we would wake up and think we were dying like she did.) Despite getting the impression, they were bad, a new event happened- one of my sisters friends started, which launched the other mothers (including mine) to talk to their daughters. Unfortunately, I was left out of this. Jealousy took over around age nine, as my sister started at the ripe old age of 12 & ¾. My sister dragged out the emotions constantly so her and my mom could leave any situation whenever and enjoy late night ice cream several nights a week (my parents were in the middle of a rough divorce, and it made me feel extremely unloved when they left me upstairs with my dad.
Thus, I began praying for my period to come for a solid two years, just to get the attention I thought I deserved. Finally, I realize periods weren’t fun, and I stopped the prayers. When I did finally get my period at school, it was December 10th, 5 days after my 13th birthday, and 4 days after that embarrassing sleepover. I came home, waited three hours to work up the courage, and told my mom. She gave me a high five and then found one of my sisters heavy flow pads. Later that night, we whet to Walgreens and in one of my most embarrassing memories, bought pads. I had no supplies because when I had asked my mom for some the week before, she laughed at me and brushed it off to avoid to conversation. I was partially annoyed that I had to change the toilet paper in my underwear after every class, but still happy that I had a story because for the first time in a while, that sleepover had made me feel inadequacy. I also still feel a certain inadequacy from my family because my mom and sister still leave me with my dad because my sister is annoyed with him, and my mom to this day has never actually sat down with me and talked about periods, bras, or sex. Any time I ask my mom to buy me more pads or tampons, she leaves them on the dryer and says in a low voice, “the items you requested are on the dryer”. It’s so stupid I sometimes laugh. My moms solution is to sometimes bring up something like, “woah, look at that white dress. Wouldn’t it suck to get your period while wearing that?!” Loudly in public. So it gets me excited to see more people trying to make periods more of a normal topic, because in my family, that isn’t going to happen.
This is how my first period started.
So about an hour ago I was talking to my friend about periods lol Idek why.. And little did I know I got it like 30 minutes ago.
I have been getting brown..yellowish discharge every month since June. It’s August now! And I finally got my period today. Every month since then I would get the brown discharge for like 3-5 days.
I got that today! I was having brown stuff yesterday (Sunday) too and didn’t think anything about it cause nothing happened the past 2 months..
I felt sort of wet down there a little bit ago and figured it was just that brown stuff. I wanted to make sure though. It was actually red this time. I used some baby wipes. My mom was actually on her period too so there were pads! She’s 35 btw and I’m 12 lol. So I put one on and sure enough I had my period! She was at work, but I texted her and told her what happened and she said “congrats!” I was like thanks! Lol
GOOD LUCK. It’s not so bad!!