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September 2013

my first period

I was at my dads house in my aunts room when it happend. now my mom had been out so i started freaking out and messaging people on facebook.  My friend was about to bring me pads but luckily i found some in the bathroom fortunately it was only spotting but i still havent told my dad lol

Sep 18, 2013 1 note

June 2013

So I was 12 and I went to the bathroom at school towards the end of the day. I pulled down my pants and saw blood. I didn’t actually freak out (no joke) and just shoved a ton of tp in my panties till I got home and used a pad. Except I had no idea how to use one, so I told my mom and she showed me. Why does everyone freak out at that?

Jun 15, 2013 2 notes

May 2013

help I am A fish

I was 11 when i was sitting in class during silent reading andi felt someting wet as i moved to get another book i asked my teacher i could go to the toilet as i pulled down my pants i just saw red stuff and yelled at my friend to get the teacher she ran got the teacher and she gaveme a pad it wal inbarssing cause it was the firt day of year six and i didnt know the teacher that well

May 2, 2013 2 notes
TW: menstruation

I was 10 years old, and my pants felt wet. So I go to the bathroom and LOOK there’s blood in my underwear! I did not know what it was. So I changed my undies and got it over with. 

THEN LATER I felt wet again. ok repeat the “feelwetchangeunderwear” sequence a few times.

So I went to good old Mom to see what was happening. She said the Words of Truth and told me to use a pad. So I go to the bathroom again and rip up one of her pink thingies with a pad inside them. But alas, I didn’t really know how to work it and I didn’t tear off the sticky sticker thing.
THE END

May 2, 2013 3 notes

March 2013

Okay so my first period was simple, but a bit different. So it was the day after the party for my 12th birthday. I woke up with a couple of my friends, because I had a sleepover. I realized I felt a little wet, but I didn’t think anything of it. After they all left, I went pee, not even thinking about a period. I pulled my pants down and when I went to wipe I looked down and my underwear was flooded with blood. I freaked out and immediately starting crying. I was crying #1 because I didn’t want a period and #2 because I was about to go to a waterpark with my aunt. I called my mom and told her and she ran to the store and got me pads. I know it’s not the best period story, but whatever. Hope you enjoyed!

Mar 19, 2013 2 notes

January 2013

Hahaha it stopped

I got it on Friday it lasted less then a day I’m only 12. You would think I’m young but I’m the last of my friends kinds wierd ya. Ok so I was at target yes target and I had really bad cramps so mum was like being really slow then I’m like can we go home then I’m like hurry up would you So she had a go at me so awkward then I desided to go sit down thinking it was proberly my period. Cause that morning there was brown thick thick kinds like goo in my pants I thought it was discharge as usual but I had never had coloured discharge so I went to have a shower so ya we wer at target and cramps so I say down bout half a hour later we went home I’m like mum my tummy hurts then she was like maybe you are growing up wierd how she knew what I ment. I went to the loo nothing but discharge then I had to pee so I did but then when I wiped there was blood yay 😁 great 😐 k but I was very very light I told mum and she got all excited it was really awkward. So then she went and got pads ive basically only used the liners it was that light but it hurt like hell at first the nxt day I had to go to my friends and by ten in the morning it stopped I thought it might come back but it didn’t it was Australia Day and we went to the pool I went swimming even though I was scared it might come back but it didn’t still hasn’t don’t think it will till nxt month so ya Im glad I got I now though cus I start high school not tomorrow the nxt day so ya that’s it bye

Jan 28, 2013 1 note

So I’m 15 and I got my first period last night.  I was expecting it anytime now because I’m 15 for christsake.  It was about 10 at night and I went to the bathroom because I really had to pee.  I pulled my underwear down and freaked out a little because I saw this dried brownish stuff in my underwear.  at first I though it was odd colored discharge, so I just finished up and went to my bedroom to change my underwear.  I couldn’t help notice how it really looked like dried blood.. I had to be sure so I poured hydrogen peroxide on my underwear and sure enough it started bubbling so I knew it was blood.  I’m still unsure how to tell my stepmother so if you have any ideas message me at boredom-or-apathy.tumblr.com

Jan 28, 2013 2 notes

November 2012

I got my period yesterday.I didnt really think i had got it because while i was wiping, I saw some redish stuff and I thought it was pee or some crap or something. So, just in case, i put a really thin pad on and went to bed. Thank god i did. If i hadnt, there probably would have been dried black shit all over my bed. And that stuff is freaking GROSS. So I still didnt want to believe it, but i went to school with a new pad on, but that didnt help much. Luckily, my school has pads in a container in the bathroom. 

When i got home, I was so nervous about telling my mom, so i just said, I think i got my period and my mom was like, okay. WHich surprised me after i read some of the reactions on here. 

I am pretty nervous, because i dont want blood or some of that black shit staining any of my stuff. or letting anyone see it. 

So ya. 

Nov 26, 2012 2 notes
My first period is funny

Ok so it was like . 2 am today . I had this brown stuff in my panties all day but I didn’t care Cuz sometimes I shit myself when I fart so I thought it was shit but then I went pee and whipped and had red on the paper so I went in my parents room and said “"mom”“ and started crying . She told me it was my period and gave me pads. So if you look like you shît yourself it’s ur first period .. Oh and if you have white discharge that happens six months before your period I didn’t tell anyone about my discharge and also cramps keep to yourself unless you wanna feel awkward .. Yeah. My mom told me to change the pad every 4 hours .. And always bring some to school with you . Also it’s not shit it your pants . But if it smells you have an infection .yeah we’ll I started on my laptop playing roblox warrior kittens me lake . Lol I thought it was shit -_- smh ..

Nov 23, 2012 2 notes

January 2012

I was 11 and I got it just before my birthday. I had cramps the day before and I remember the I went to downstairs toilet because I thought I was going to be sick. I think I knew what was going to happen though. The next day I went to the toilet and there was brown all in my underwear. I was sad because I wanted it to be red and pretty. I went out and my mom was paying bills and I told her. She said “Congratulations, it happens to the best of us.” “But it only happens to girls…” I said. “Right.” She looked at me with a DUH face. I always get really bad cramps but I never say anything, it’s not something I’m comfortable speaking about with her. She was going through menopause when I was going through puberty, emotions were running high in the house at that time. My mom asked me if I was pregnant a few weeks ago because I haven’t put tampons on the shopping list. I forgot to mention that I got a menstrual cup, she was completely grossed out.  

Jan 15, 2012 1 note
:)

I just got my period yesterday! (2 am, basically Friday night).

I was having a sleepover with my best friend ever. She was already asleep. I had to pee and I went downstairs. I wiped and there was this orange-ish reddish color on the toilet paper! I texted my mom. 

I dance every day, and the next morning I had to perform at my dance studio’s open house! I wore a panty liner (because I had only my period for 12 hours, i wasn’t using tampons lol) but I was nervous my skimpy leotard would slide and show my liner OR i would bleed through to my tights! 

LUCKILY none of this happened! the open house went fine and today they cancelled dance so i can wear a normal pad!

I’m REALLY happy i didn’t get my period at school or dance! :)

Jan 8, 2012 3 notes

December 2011

Puberty is cool

When I first got my period, I honestly thought I shit my pants. I kept changing my underwear and it kept happening and happening. I never thought I had started my period. I had no cramps or anything. My mom came upstairs and was like, “yo, i’m pretty sure you’ve become a women. Here’s a pad, put it in your undies.” More than anything, I was psyched. My best friend had gotten hers before me and I was mad jelly. And now here I am, telling the internets about it six years later. Not ashamed at all

Dec 28, 2011 3 notes

November 2011

I had my first period when I was three. I was sat watching teletubbies and drinking strawberry milk when all of a sudden, I started to bleed! My mum bought me some taempons straight away and was like awww this is cute. The end :) :) :) :) :) xxxxx

Nov 23, 2011 1 note
tw:menstruation

Ahaha I remember my first period and my first period fake-out. When I was about 10 I had a urinary tract infection so I had a few drop of blood in my underwear… I thought that I had started my period and my childhood was over, etc, so I cried in the bathroom for a few hours until my mom kindly informed me that I hadn’t started yet. When I started for real it was the summer between 6th and 7th grade and I was at my aunt’s house. My best friend was the first person I told and I texted my mom to let her know. I just sort of cleaned up, put on a pad and went about my business and it wasn’t a big deal to me, considering I got all the drama and horror out of my system that first time around xD

Nov 23, 2011 1 note

August 2011

TW. My First Period!

I was 11. A few weeks prior my mom bought me “The care and keeping of you.” Which was basically a little book introducing puberty and periods for girls. So I knew what a period was and hoped for mine. Mostly because it was the induction into womanhood, and I’d always identified myself as an adult. 

I got invited to a co-ed sleepover with some 4-H kids. I had a huge crush on one of the boys in the group and I was so excited. We played games and ect. So when we went to bed my crush wanted to sleep next to me. Man was I siked, I got all butterflies in the tummy and what not. The next morning when we woke up I was covered in blood. All the kids saw, my crush and all. But they were cool Homeschooled kids and they had sympathy. even the crush was cool with it, surprisingly enough. 

Anyway, I didn’t tell my mom for like months and months. and my fraternal grandmother was from a generation of woman who treated their menses like a disease. Unfortunately I had the same outlook until I discovered reusable products and the cup! Now I am  very comfortable and confident about my cycle. I take great empowerment in discussing menstruation and taboos with others. 

Ps. I love this Tumblr! (: 

Aug 27, 2011 1 note
TW Menstruation

I got my period for the first time when I was 10.

The night before, I remember that even the smell of dinner was making me feel sick, so my mom let me go up to my room and read instead. The next night, I went to the bathroom, and saw some brownish stuff on the bottom of my underwear, and for some reason I was convinced I was having blood in my poo and this was what it looked like (I had been reading about medicine side effects recently, and one of them was blood in the poo, which I thought sounded AWUL!) I called for my mom, terrified, but she explained that I wasn’t dying, or bleeding from my rear, it was just my period, and that that was probably why I hadn’t been hungry.

I then proceeded to skip a few months, and despite not having any weight gain, and not having any sexual contact, I was terrified that I had somehow become pregnant. I remember feeling relieved when it started again.

At first, my cramps were horrible. To the point of me being curled up in a ball every month on the bathroom floor, wishing I could just puke and get it over with, so that I could finally get on with my life. It was especially bad because I couldn’t figure out how to swallow pills until I was 16 and my girlfriend cornered me in front of a water fountain and wouldn’t let me out until I had taken them, and my teacher was really mean to people who were late. After that, they got progressively better, until I got the pill and barely felt them, and now on the patch I sometimes get cramps, but never enough to puke.

I hate it, simply because no matter what I’ve tried, none of the methods are comfortable…tampons, pads, you name it, they feel uncomfortable to me. But otherwise, I don’t mind it too much,

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Aug 7, 2011 1 note
tw:menstruation

 I was 9 when my period started and about to start 5th grade. It was a fabulous summer day when I started. I had a horrible stomach cramps for a few hours and my grandmother suggested that I go ride my bicycle to alleviate my cramps. After I rode around for a bit I noticed my cramps were gone so I thought everything was all fine and dandy. I went to pee and my underwear was covered in blood. Of course, being that it was the rad mid-90s, I had seen that awesome video starring Orphan Annie so I knew what was going on. I told my grandmother and I got to wear a huge pair of underwear she had just bought (that was more embarrassing to me then my period for sure). She gave me some water and said that I’ve taken my final steps into womanhood (I was already developed and hairy). When my mom came by to pick me up she flipped out. I remember her crying and saying I was a woman now in that depressed voice moms get but I certainly didn’t feel like a woman. Basically all I wanted to do was call my best friend and tell her then go out and play some more. I never thought my period was gross or weird and I carried around my period kit that my elementary school provided with pride. When people say it’s disgusting and nasty it reiterates that women are still seen as unclean which is obviously wrong. Be proud of your body and your period!

submitted by: fictionalindependence

Aug 6, 2011 2 notes
Aug 5, 2011 2 notes
tw: menstruation, worry

I didn’t have the greatest first period because I was stuck in school, aged 14 , in Maths. My teacher said I looked “green” and told me to go the medical room. Once I arrived I was told to go home and upon my arrival I realised that I’d finally began my period. All I remember is feeling really sick and unwell during Maths but as soon as I was home, I felt so reassured; it’s my first period, what’s so bad about that? I told my mother when she got got home from work and it was just a really cool thing. No worry, no fear anymore. Just a little cramp which painkillers can help :)

submitted by: robynsucre

Aug 5, 2011 1 note
trigger warning, menstruation

The first time I got my period I thought I pooped myself. Then my Mom gave me a hug and said “Welcome to womanhood sweetheart”. 

- Lauren (sugarbutch)  

Aug 5, 2011 2 notes
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tw:menstruation

My parents had just divorced, and there was a restraining order against my mom. I was barely 10, and didn’t really understand what was happening. I guess the stress brought it on early.

Anyway I went to the bathroom one day and noticed a weird brown sludge. I showed it to my dad and asked him what it was. He was totally uncomfortable, but told me that it was my period (because really, that’s all he knew/cared to know) and quickly scampered away to get the most uncomfortable no-name brand of pads that existed.

I feel like I was pretty oblivious due to adult discomfort and my mother’s absence. I was old enough to know in theory what a period was from rudimentary sex-ed, but only through strange abstract diagrams and allusions. There wasn’t any hostility, but there also wasn’t any help.

It was pretty uneventful, especially compared to everything else going on in my life at the time. I was always pretty independent, so I started buying decent menstrual products on my own pretty soon afterwards. (Now I use a mooncup - delightful! GO GET ONE.)

submitted by: enviablememory

Aug 5, 2011
Menarche. tw:menstruation

It was the first of many, of course, but it was much unlike the rest.

I didn’t get The Talk beforehand or afterwards, but I was excited for it to come.

I had my own stash of tampons (to the chagrin of my mother - probably because she came of age when TSS was still a reality) and I was absolutely, completely ready.

When it came, it was quiet and warm and tame and docile. There weren’t any surges of heavy flow or intense emotion or searing pain or anxiety or weird dreams or huge waves of libido crashing over me just beforehand. 

It was brownish-red, copper like a shiny new penny, and I welcomed it like a new friend. I felt lucky, blessed, relieved.

My period ended three days later. 

I missed it. 

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Aug 4, 2011 1 note
It's Just A Period, People!itsjustaperiod.tumblr.com

Here’s the pro-menstruation blog I’ve been co-moderating for the past couple of months. Please be sure to stop on by and check it out! :)

Aug 4, 2011
Aug 4, 2011 4,759 notes
tw:menstruation

I am fourteen years old, and have always been overwhelmingly well informed on sex, bodily functions and puberty, having grown up with a crass father, who shared his outrageously sexual sense of humor with me from a young age, a mother who disapproved greatly of such a young girl knowing so many adult things, whom I was desperate to displease, and six older cousins who took delight in teaching me everything their was about girly-bits, boy-bits, and the like.

I got my first period last October. I had just gotten home after a two hour drive, during which I had what I believed to be agonising stomach cramps and throbbing backache. I went to the toilet and found a small brown stain in my knickers. Despite my common sense and my profound knowledge of “what-vaginas-do”, it didn’t even occur to me that I had experienced my period.

I was, for two hours (before my mother corrected me) absolutely terrified and convinced I had bladder cancer.

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Aug 3, 2011 1 note
The Lifesaver tw:menstruation

(TW:Menstruation, Blood, Slight Language)

Okay, so in middle school I was bullied a lot by this one crazy girl.  She would pull on me, corner me, rip my sketchbooks, you know.  I was 11 and it was December 14 in the seventh grade.  Our school had two buildings at the time, the upper school (Middle, High) and lower school (Elementary) buildings. And during lunch this girl was especially ruthless.  I remember she had dragged me to the swings and started pestering me about whether or not I was a lesbian because of my short hair.  I was on the verge of tears when…

“I think I just wet myself…”  I mumbled.

“What?!” She looked at me funny.

“BITCH I THINK I JUST PEED MY PANTS.” I yelled, (something I have never done before), and ran into the lower school building.

I went to check, and lo and behold, a sanguine oasis greeted me.

My period has become very heavy, and has given me anemia, so we aren’t exactly pals.  But I’ll never forget the day it gave me the courage to yell at my middle school bully.

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Aug 2, 2011 1 note
[TW: Menstruation.]

I was twelve years old and it was the end of August. My little brother’s birthday, actually. We went swimming at a lake, stopped at a restaurant to eat after, and didn’t get home until it was really late. When I peeled off my bathing suit, I saw the brownish spot in the crotch and told my mom. She got me a pad and showed me how to use it. 

I was really lucky. I already knew about menstruation from school and my mom and that first one was really light. But man, that first year at school was rough- the flow got super heavy and the cramps were awful. I didn’t know how to manage it yet at first and ruined a lot of pants and sweatshirts.

Although I did get pretty creative, one time during school I had bled through my jeans and I used duct tape to write messages on my butt to cover it up. 

Oh, and my brother’s turning nineteen soon and still has no idea that his birthday is also the anniversary of my first period.

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Aug 2, 2011 3 notes
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[TWmenstruation]: The truest Little Woman

I don’t remember the time of year, maybe it was mid-fall. I was in the 7th grade (so middle school in the US) and I had the flu. This was one of those flus where you had it so bad that thinking and breathing were almost impossibilities. I had a fever high enough to fry an egg on my head (as my mother put it).

In school I had just read “Little Women.” You know, the classic novel about a family full of sisters by Louisa May Alcott. So since I was home, and sick, my mother thought it would be good for me to watch the film. So I’m sitting on the beige leather couch, sicker than ever, watching the likes of Winona and Kirsten and Susan etc. and I pause the film so I can go to the bathroom.

I stand up and there’s a large red splotch on the couch and a matching one on the seat of my pants. 

Having been prepared for my period to come for months, I quickly ran to the bathroom and dealt with the necessities. I am so thankful that my mother was with me that day or else I may have panicked (being sick). When all was cleaned up we sat back down to finish the film, laughed at the irony of the situation and all was well.

But there’s more… the real kicker. The next day my grandmother was to come over and take care of me. She walked in the door. Took one look at me and said, “Well, now we know you can have children.”

I find my story a bit lighthearted and I’ve heard of and read some pretty awful first times. At the age of twelve, I wasn’t thinking of having children, and I hope that as time progresses the next generation of women will have an easier batch of first times. 

That’s all.

submitted by: avesilves

Aug 2, 2011 1 note
TW Periods

I got my first period when I was 17. I was the last person I knew and I wanted it so badly. So, when I was 16 I started faking that I had my period. I would ask friends to borrow tampons and then put it back in their purses later.

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Aug 2, 2011 1 note
TW: Blood, menstruation, awkwardness!

I was twelve at the time. I remember it being a Saturday. I went to the toilet in the morning and saw brown stains in my knickers. Of course, I had been an avid reader of teen girl magazines since the age of 9, so I knew a lot more about puberty and menstruation than any biology lesson has ever taught me. It never even crossed my mind that period blood would dry and be brown, when I started.

So I changed my knickers in the morning and went to see tutor, as I always did on a Saturday morning. When I returned home, there were more brown stains with a hint of red! For a few seconds, I was confused and assumed that I had somehow managed to injure myself in the groin area. Then I realised that it might actually be my period. My mum kept pads in the bathroom, so I attempted to put one on. Only, as much as I knew about the facts of menstruation, I had never actually learned how to put a pad on! So instead of laying it down lengthways, I put it across my pants. After doing this, I told my   sister, who was two years younger than me, what had happened. She was a little mystified because it was obviously something that she didn’t have much experience of!

I remember telling my mum later that day, as we were walking in a shopping centre. I didn’t know how to break it to her, because it seemed like such a huge deal, so I kind of held her arm and said “muuuuuum, I need to tell you something.” I didn’t know what response to expect from her, but what I least expected was her the incredibly matter-of-fact response that I did get. She also said that my dad, of all people, had said to her the day before that I was looking a little pale and perhaps I was starting my period soon. My dad sensed that I was starting my period before my mum did! 

After going through all the basics, my mum then proceeded to tell my dad and all of my female relatives that I had started my period. I went to my aunt’s house, the next day, and sat through stories of when my mother, my aunt and my cousin had all started their periods. My mum also rued the fact that I had started at 12. She had apparently started at 14 and regretted the fact that I would have to go through the regular pains every month, so soon. 

Luckily, my periods are something that I’ve generally been fine with. I just wish that other issues relating to my vagina were so easy to discuss with my mum! Only recently, she felt the contraceptive rod in my arm and I had to fabricate an awful lie about what it was. I guess it’s her old-fashioned opinions which are to blame for why I had to lie about that, rather than my responsible attitude towards babies!

submitted by:  thepowerofzealots

Aug 2, 2011
tw:menstruation

It was August, the summer before 7th grade. I was staying at my great grandmas house while my mom was at work. All day my stomach had been hurting and I only had one thought, OH GOD MY APPENDIX. All day I curled up watching tv thinking I was going to die. Eventually I went to the bathroom, and there it was. Blood. I couldn’t have been more horrified. I felt like my childhood was over so I layed on the bathroom floor crying. Between sobs I made the embarassing call to my mom at work who drove right over to deliver reinforcements. For years I hated my period and felt like a gross person, but just recently something has changed. Periods are a beautiful thing, life creating beauty from the earth. It wasn’t the end of my childhood, just the beginning of my life as a child, who bleeds every month. :)

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Aug 2, 2011
Thoughts I Have: Why I love my Diva Cup tw:menstruationfriendlyneighborhoodcurmudgeon.tumblr.com

friendlyneighborhoodcurmudgeon:

What is a Diva Cup? It is a small silicone cup that you can insert into your vagina to catch menstruation blood. It is reusable and easily cleaned. So basically it’s like a tampon but so much better. It does take some getting used to (like a tampon does) and if you put it in incorrectly it can be…

Aug 2, 2011 19 notes
TW: Menstruation. Stupid Mother Nature

I was 10 I think.  I was a the beauty shop, getting my hair pressed.  I was wearing my favorite pink sweatsuit.  I went to the bathroom and I saw it and my first thought was Damn!

My mom had told me all about it.  I was ready.  I knew it was gonna happen, but I was pissed none the less.

I don’t think I told her about it at first.  But when she did find out, probably the next day, she was confused.  She asked me why I didn’t tell her.  I lied and said I didn’t know what it was.  I don’t know why I lied.

Amazingly she didn’t call me on my bullshit.  She knew she had told me about it a hundred times.  She simply took me to the store and bought me some pads.  And when I complained about their hugeness, she told me about having periods in 1963 and how the pads had their very on harness system and how much that sucked.  I stopped complaining.

She also told me her story, about being sent home from school when she was about my age and telling my great-grandmother who lived with my mom and my Granny.  My great-granny did the only thing that made sense to her, considering her period years were long gone.  She got a towel and some safety pins and fashioned a diaper for my mom until my Granny got home from work. 

We laughed and laughed at that and my mom reminded me how lucky I was.

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Aug 2, 2011
Aug 2, 2011 130 notes
Hey! This blog sounds brilliant and I cannot wait for the submissions to fly in. If one young girl is able to see it's normal and not something to fear this blog will have achieved so much :) I just have one question though; are trigger warnings obligatory? My first period wasn't anything traumatic or nasty so I really can't think of what to put as a trigger.

Hey! Thanks so much, we agree periods shouldn’t something looked down upon and people who have their first period should feel comfortable knowing it’s natural.

Trigger warnings are obligatory, even if it’s nothing bloody or gruesome because some people might have had a horrible first period experience and your story might trigger them. Just a precaution!

Aug 2, 2011 1 note
Aug 2, 2011 31 notes
[TW for menstrual periods, embarrassment, slight uneasiness] Single dads and best friends FOR THE WIN

The first time I got my period, I was in eighth grade. There was nothing particularly exciting going on that day, except that it was a weekend. I remember going to the bathroom to pee, and pulled down my undies. I freaked out when I saw brownish-copper stains, thinking about how angry my mom would be at the fact that I’d ruined a perfect pair of underwear. Stealthily (at least I thought I was being stealthy), I hid the stained panties, not wanting to get rid of them since I didn’t have many other pairs. The copper stains kept appearing, and I had no idea what to do. I mean, I knew what menstrual periods were, and that I would get one eventually (Thank you, mum and gran), but I didn’t know that it would look brown when the bleeding started. This continued for three days, and I started freaking out. My dad was more awkward around this sort of stuff than I was, so I called my friend Cynthia (she lived four houses down and was a year older than me). She told me that it was normal, and that I was starting my period. So she walked down the street to my house, pads in hand, and while handing me the pads through a small crack in the door, she told me “now, put one of these on like your mom showed you before,” my mom had thought that I would start my period in fourth grade, because both she and my gran were early bloomers, “and remember to drink WAY more water in the next week. Welcome to womanhood." 

So yeah, not very eventful, but there it was.

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Aug 2, 2011
TRIGGER WARNING: Menstruation, blood, other bodily functions, body size, depression

I was 12 years old and I still remember the date, April 16th, three days after my first concert. I was at my best friend’s house up the street scooter-ing and telling her about the concert, as we shared the same favorite band.  I started feeling crampy in my lower abdomen, and honestly I thought I was going to have the worst diarrhea of my life (oh my) and after a few minutes I told her I felt sick (I did, I started feeling feverish), so I went on home. I sat on the toilet when I got there and was horrified at the large brown stain in my underwear (I honestly thought I crapped myself), so I finished going to the bathroom, (and having not crapped), I wiped and saw blood and finally understood what happened. I luckily learned what a period was around seven years of age, which I think was great parenting from my mom.  I called my mom into the bathroom, since I couldn’t really get up to do anything, so she got me some supplies (pads) and some clean undies. I used pads for a year and despised them (wet and nasty) and therefore my period to an extent (the day I found tampons, yessss, and moreso, the diva cup, hallelujah). I was also very skinny so my period was light and not too painful (but as time went on, I got heavier and it got worse, sigh) But I had mixed emotions getting my first period… I was (am) genderqueer and knew it at the time (not the phrase, just the feeling), and I had no interest in becoming more womanly (like some friends who got their period felt), it was just a nuisance.  But being depressed back then, my period made me feel euphoric (and irritable if pushed), so I enjoyed the break from mental hell. This pattern continues. But overall, my period isn’t too bad. Sometimes it sucks when I’m in more masculine mode, sometimes it makes me too upbeat and erratic, sometimes it hurts a lot, but I appreciate my period because having a vag rules. I also have done menstrual art, aww yeah.

Well, that went off track.

Overall, I’d say that first period was a pretty lucky day and place to get my period, and it wasn’t a really bad experience. It just was. It’s just life.

submitted by: z00110100

Aug 2, 2011 2 notes
[trigger warning: blood] Mazel Tov

I think my first period was in January of 2006 when I was 12, but nobody had told me my first period wasn’t going to be red. So I looked in my panties, foolishly assumed I had missed a spot and went on my way.

Then it was April of the same year. After a wonderful Passover seder I went to the bathroom and found my new red surprise. I called my mom into the bathroom so she could tell me what to do, and that was that. Later that week, my mom organized a little lunch with the other ladies in my family to celebrate my “rite of passage.”

… I only just now realized that it’s actually a bit symbolic that my first bleeding was on Passover night. What with the lamb’s blood-painted-door supposed to symbolize who will be passed over and who will be saved and blahblahblah I’m a silly Jewish girl who got her period. Cool beans.

5 years later, I must admit I’d rather get gelt than my period.

submitted by: yourweaponisguilt

Aug 2, 2011 1 note
My First Period: Sports Day

Trigger warning: blood, pain, embarrassment

I was at summer camp the summer before 7th grade. My mom (who was also my doctor) had sworn to me that I would definitely NOT get my period before school started. It was overnight camp for two months, and on the 4th of July there is always a “sports day.” That morning I woke up really early- around 5am which was really strange, because I generally like to sleep in. I decided to write a letter to my best friend at the time, and halfway through the letter, I realized that I really had to pee. I went to the bathroom, and when I stood up, there was blood in the toilet. I stuffed some toilet paper into my panties, flushed, washed my hands, and then went back and finished my letter.

When my friend who also had her period woke up about an hour later, I told her and she let me use some of her pads. It was really light and only lasted a few days, with no cramping. However, I was allowed to skip a bunch of the sports which was great because I’m not very athletic, and I got to call my mom to tell her, because getting your period was one of the three reasons you were allowed to call home (birthdays and major trouble were the other two). On visiting day- parents can visit on one sunday between month one and month two- my mom brought me two HUGE packages of pads. It was pretty humiliating.

Since then things have only gotten worse. I bled through my shorts once at the zoo, and another time I bled through my friends sheets. My periods were about 14 days long and really painful. My mom finally let me go on birth control pills when I was 16. Now I have 5 day periods with relatively little pain.

submitted by: corpsazorsomething

Aug 1, 2011
TW: Menstruation

My first period happened when I had just turned 10. Nobody had taught me anything about menstruation; I literally knew nothing about it. I was taking this tae-kwon-do class that was in the cafeteria after school and I felt like something was moving around and exploding in my stomach, if that even makes sense! When I got home, I noticed blood in my undies. I thought something really bad was happening, and I was too afraid to tell anyone, so I didn’t. I just let myself bleed. I may have stuffed some toilet paper in my undies, but I can’t remember. I had to go swimming in gym class the next day, and I was horrified. Afterwards, I had blood in my swimsuit. I was afraid someone had noticed, but nobody said anything. I remember going to a friend’s house and watching a movie or something and being afraid I was going to bleed on his couch.

A couple days after I’d started bleeding, my mom came into school during lunch. She said she had gone to do my laundry and noticed blood in my underwear, so she brought me a pad, took me to the bathroom, and explained things briefly. Apparently, she had run into my teacher in the hallway and told her about me, so I was completely embarrassed! And I was wearing this huge pad and I had on leggings because that’s all you can wear when you’re a fat 10-year-old. I was afraid people would see the outline of my pad through the leggings.

I think my mom explained things better when I got home from school, and I remember her buying me a couple of those “What’s Happening to my Body?” type of books. I went back to my friend’s house a few days later and he said something about how his mom wasn’t feeling good because she was on her period, and I was thinking, “WHAT. How does he know about periods and I didn’t?” It really blew my mind. Children really should be taught about their bodies at an earlier age. I’m sure so many of us would have benefited from knowing about menstruation at, like, 6 or 7 years old. We need to know what periods are, so that we aren’t completely terrified when we get them.

submitted by: amoebapudding

Aug 1, 2011
tw: menstruation/my first period

I got my first period when I was ten years old! It was the summer before going into sixth grade, in late July or early August. I saw spotting on my underwear when I went to the bathroom earlier, but I ignored it. A few hours later, I couldn’t ignore it any longer. I was really worried about bringing it up to my mom, so instead, I secretly went outside and called my best friend and told her about it! She said that I should tell my mom, which I did when I went inside and my mom was questioning why I went outside at 9 o'clock. I used the pads we got in school when learning about periods for a day or two and then my mom went out and bought me stuff of my own!
Side note, I bought my first diva cup 7 years later and I love it <3

submitted by: carlynondrunkenberg

Aug 1, 2011
TW: my first period experience

I’d just turned 12, and I’d been having cramps for days. My mum kept saying, ‘oooh, you’re probably going to start your period soon.’ But I didn’t believe her…I didn’t WANT to believe her. The thought of periods grossed me out. I remember learning about them and thinking 'Eeewww…blood is going to come out of my WHAT?! Every month? Pain?!!’ I was in school, and went to the toilet at break. Lo and behold…there, on my favourite white knickers was a HUGE spot of bright red. I didn’t know what to do. I remember standing in the stall and shaking slightly. I walked out to where my friend was waiting and asked her what to do (she’d had her first period a year earlier so she was practically an expert in my eyes!). We decided to go see my form tutor because I was pretty shaken up. I went and timidly said, 'Erm…I just started my period.’ She looked at me and asked, 'oh, what do you normally use? Tampons or pads? There are dispensing machines down in the toilets.’ I looked at her with wide eyes, on the verge of tears and explained that it was my first time. She was really sympathetic and she told my friend to help me out. She said that it’d take some time getting used to the feeling of having a pad on, so she told me to take as much time as I’d need to adjust and went to tell our male maths teacher that we’d be late because we were doing a job for her. At that moment, she was my favourite teacher! We went back down to the loos and my friend stood outside telling me how to make sure it’s properly stuck on, and how to dispose of it. Even though she’s moved away and we don’t keep in contact, I think I’ll always remember her. I guess sharing periods creates a bond. (actually, from then onwards, we were always on our periods at the same time!) I got home, and grumpily told my mum what had happened. She looked thrilled because I’d 'become a woman’. That evening we went to watch a film with my aunts and all of them would just keep staring and smiling proudly at me. There I was, in pain that I’d never experienced before, and a load of blood gushing out of me, and they were happy about it! I was not amused in the slightest… I’m glad I’m over that initial fear now. I  don’t mind having them. Sure, it’s painful sometimes, but it’s natural. And it’s great living in an all female household (mum and aunt) cause we all get our periods at the same time. We have packs of pads flying around all over the place, we can share our problems that month, and we’ll sit together and indulge on chocolate while watching a good movie (just like we did tonight!) It’s great for bonding! And then…there are those times when hormones are running high. Both my mother and I get quite grumpy and vicious, so we’ll end up at each others tbroats, you wouldn’t want to get caught in the middle of that!

submitted by: mytwopenniesworth

Aug 1, 2011
Catching the Crimson Wave tw:menstruation

I remember having odd reddish-brownish discharge about a week prior to finally getting my period. It was spring of 5th grade, my Godmother was in town from Texas. I remember running into the bathroom because I felt wet between my legs, almost sticky. I pull down my panties and sure enough I was leaking full on, and I freaked out. I let out a little scream and my mother came running in and saw, but to the opposite of my horror she smiled and told me she’d teach me everything I needed to know. After I cleaned up she took me to see my Godmother where she announced the big news, lots of hugging and “Welcoming” me into ‘Womynhood’ (although I realized later on how biased she was raised and taught me that only womyn have periods etc. but that’s another story) We picked up an unnecessary amount of Pads, Tampons and the like, I rejected the tampons because they hurt and I really was uncomfortable putting them in. Now It’s my favorite weapon of choice.

I think what I remember most that day has very little to do with my period, but in memory of my Godmother. That was the last time I saw her,after that week of visitation she went back to Texas, and I didn’t see her for about 8 years. My mother  and  her were estranged but at the time I didn’t understand why, I often expressed my unhappiness of the situation. She called a few months ago, for the first time in 8 years to tell us what happened. 

Her then husband abused her. He cut her off from all her friends, family, co workers. She was forced to stay at home and do “proper housewife” chores while he pretended that she didn't exist. He beat her, abuse physical, verbal and emotional were there prior to her disconnect with us and continued on until she finally escaped him with their son one night, planning out for months where they would go, saving money, packing ( he thought she was spring cleaning and didn’t think much of it) she ran away to a women's shelter, contacted the police and stayed at the shelter for 3 months until she felt safe enough to move into an undisclosed location with her son. Currently she is going through legal battles and  trying to maintain custody of their son, only time will tell how this plays out. 

Although a bit unrelated to my period, it is a strong memory I attach to that day, because it was the day where one of the most important womyn in my life was taken from me, from us and forced to endure this abuse by her spouse. She taught me a lot and I will always appreciate that.

submitted by: bigassfemme

Aug 1, 2011
TW: Blood, Menstruation

I was twelve and I was visiting my half-sister in California for the very first time. I was also visiting her grandma during the trip, a woman I had never met before. I had been feeling pretty rank all day, but I figured it was the marked difference in air quality between the states, too much excitement, and took much junk food.

I got to sleep in one of my half-sister’s grandma’s huge guestrooms, with its own bathroom and everything. I finally fell into a fitful sleep. I woke up around midnight covered in blood.

I freaked. I called for my sister in the room across the hall. She came over, saw what was going on, and explained what the hell was happening to me. Of course I was mortified; I’d ruined the sheets in that wonderful old room, ruined my nightclothes, and woke everyone (including my infant nephew)–all in the home of someone I’d only met a couple of hours previously.

But my half-sister and her grandma were both really understanding. We even called my mom and she was so happy for me that it eased the humiliation a bit. My sister also bought me a new nightgown, so that helped too.

Now I have erratic, heavy, tiring periods, but none so surprising or upsetting as that one.

submitted by: sailormuse

Aug 1, 2011
Tw: I derped

    I was in 6th grade and I woke up that morning tired and irritable like every other morning. I knew about periods and all that because everyone thought I had gotten it the year before when i sat on ketchup at lunch. But I woke up and as I went to pee I noticed that my underwear was brown. See, it would have been red, but I had these orange boxershorts on. I don’t know why, but I some how did not think it was my period. I reasoned that I must have sat on something the night before or that I had embarrassingly shit myself. So I threw away the underwear in a plastic bag, got in the shower without a second thought and went to school. Through the day I felt fine. Even then as now, I had no issues with cramping.  

   Like alot of young girls my underwear would get accasionally wet-ish from discharge every now and again, so I didn’t think about it when my panties felt wet.

   Having not gone to the bathroom all day and being in a skirt I was not aware of the Niagra Falls that was me. That night I went to a party where blood had trickled down my leg and I finally worked out I had gotten my period.

submitted by: coffeeintherain

Aug 1, 2011
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