OMG
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… )
4:01 pm • 2 September 2015 • 3 notes
Uhhh idk
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.
8:00 am • 2 September 2015
Give me a high five!
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.
4:01 pm • 1 September 2015
My First Period!
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!!
8:00 am • 1 September 2015
Just got it
So its July 29 2015
I just hot it i was wearing some white shorts arounds the house. It was like 1.00 am i had to go pee and i felt some discharge before i just thought it was discharge though. So i looked down and i see this huge brown spot. I knew what a period was of course but i just thought it was poop. When i wiped there was read on the toilet paper so i yelled for my mom who was sleeping and she got up and i said i stared my period she gave me a pad and I’m making this right now. Oh and I’m 12 your lucky if you get it later less years you have to have your period for.
4:00 pm • 31 August 2015
My first time
So basically I would say I’m pretty lucky because I got my period just a few days ago and it was during summer, and I was 13. I was kind of expecting my period for a few months now, and alot of my friends already got it and have been suffering from it. So basically I woke up and my underwear was feeling quite wet and I thought it was just discharge so I ignored the feeling. I was playing on my phone so I decided to use the washroom and check because it was feeling extremely wet. And yep there it was. The weird thing is, i only got cramps twice before my period and so far I’ve had no cramps at all:) i guess I’m just lucky. I used my moms pad and still didn’t tell her about it. Idk I’m just scared to tell her and I’m pretty sure ill tell her the next time I get it.
8:00 am • 31 August 2015 • 2 notes
My First Period
Hi,
I’m 13 years old. I just got my first period yester had been wearing liners for a week, because of discharge but that morning I was like, nah, it won’t come why waste a panty liner?
It was 10:30 in the morning. I was at my grandmas in the countryside. I only had two pads and another 24 hours.
I had cramps all morning but for once was conviced that it was my stomach, not my uterus. I was obsessed with getting my period for over 4 years.
So I had done really piles of research and these scam quizzes “When will I get my first period?” Which that same morning said in one year, and I was conviced I was ready.
I went up to pee, and saw a big, brown spot on my underwear. I was in denial. I was happy, I couldn’t lead myself to believe it. But I got up, took a pad from my bag, went, texted my mom, who was, by the way, very happy, and told my grandma who went to a friend to a so for pads.
4:00 pm • 30 August 2015 • 3 notes
My first Period
Ok so I had just got off the bus after a long day at school and I walked inside and talked to my dad and little brother about my day. Then I went to the toilet and write after I had done my business, I saw this big pile o bloody gloop come out of my vagina. At first I thought it was poo, but Ji wiped my bum and it was thick dark blood. It didn’t hurt at all. I guess I was really lucky. I told my sister first and then my mum. I was ashamed and a bit embarrassed to tell my mum but hey, she will give you the best advice and make you feel comfortable. After that I told my friends and they got so excited.
Best of luck when your time comes
8:00 am • 30 August 2015 • 1 note
Periods Suck.
So I got my first period yesterday. I was sleeping, you know, its like summer and its 9ish or 10ish AM. I was planning on sleeping till like 11 or something when i woke up. Why? I felt like my panties were soaked. And i mean SOAKED. So then i was like oh crap. crap. crap. crap crap. First i thought i peed in my sleep, and then i thought i pooped in them (lol). But when i felt the matress around me, it was dry. And then somehow, I thought my sister did it (she’s 8 and sleeps with me sometimes). But then i was like naaaahhh. So i put my hand under the blanket and felt my crotch area from the outside. Slightly Wet. I got up a little, and looked at my panties (thank god my sister was still asleep). I thought i really did poo in them because i was wearing a white zebra striped undies and my blanket was a dark shade so it made it look like poop. And then, when i adjusted my head a little, i saw blood.Then i was like shit. I went to the bathroom and realized i did get my period. I went to my parents rooom and thankfully, my dad was downstairs in the kitchen. My mom was talking on the phone to someone and had just hung up and was about to call someone else but i was like wait. And then, I whispered, so softly, “i think i got my period”. After that she bombarded me with questions (how do you know, really, omg) and she was really excited. By then my sister had woken up and she thought i was supposed to get it when i was 16. So my mom gave me a pad and yeah. This is my second day. The first day wasn’t that bad, I didnt have any cramps at all, but today I’m kind slightly dying on the inside. Oh, and it sucks cause i have a Very heavy flow. Every time i pee and i wipe, SO much blood comes, its scary. Today my parents are both are at work, and my sister wanted to be my “Chop Chop” which apparently means i can tell her to do something and she’ll do it. So yeah. Im 12, almost 13 btw. Periods Suck.
4:01 pm • 29 August 2015
okay, so I woke up about 30 minutes ago, about 6:20 am. I went to the bathroom and when I wiped, I saw blood. I couldn’t believe it, but I knew it was coming because I’m almost 15, and my mom and sister both got theirs before they were 14. I had really bad cramps the other day, and yesterday there was discharge. I also recently had a growth spurt I’m so glad I’m staying with my mom for the summer. (I go back to my dad’s tomorrow) I have pads at my dads house, but none here bease my mom used tampons, and I’m a ‘late bloomer’ as my doctors say, so I’m a bit late for everything. I’m literally the LAST one out of my friends to get it.
8:00 am • 29 August 2015 • 1 note