First Period Experience

I started when I was 13. I happened to be at my cousins house (she had three sisters) so there were plenty of TAMPONS. I was freaking out and told her I wasn't sticking that thing in me. She convinced me to try it and I left the cardboard on the stupid thing! When I came out of the bathroom she asked me how it went and I told her. She started laughing at me and sent me back to the bathroom to take it out and try again. Needless to say I told my mom and she bought me some pads and I've stuck with them ever since. That experience has stayed with me because to this day I still feel uncomfortable if I use tampons and I am almost 39!

When I came back from school one day when I was 13 I noticed I had spotted a little, so I decided to run gladly to my mom and tell her. She said "No, you're lieing, let me see if it's true.." I was so embarrassed!!! I couldnt believe she asked to see, so I was kinda mad. Then she brought me a set of make-up as a gift for getting my first period, te-hee!

My mom was 40 when she had me, and started menopause right after that. So any products still in the house were 12 or more years old.
Thank goodness my sister-in-law had given me her leftover stuff when she had her hysterectomy. My mom was very open with me because her mom was NOT, (she was born in 1900). I had been noticing a little discharge for a couple weeks before so I had begun wearing panty liners. One day my Dad and I were watching TV and I needed to go to the bathroom. When I got there my pantyliner was pink! Naturaly, the pads were in the other bathroom. I yelled for my mom and asked her to go get them. I started using tampons the very next period. I am very open with my kids about things. But I still hope my girls get to wait till they are about 12.

I was sitting on my pink bike talking with my friends including my brother and my best friend's brother. I was just 12 years old. My best friend told me she had something to tell me. We went in her bathroom and she told me she didn't want me to panic but that I had some blood on my leg. Come to find out I had my period and didn't know it. She gave me a pad and we went to my house. My mom was so happy yet sad, since I was her baby. She told my father, which totally embarrassed me! I was okay with having it. I knew what it was all about. I just wish that it had happened at home and that my mother didn't run and tell my daddy lol.

I was quite young when I got my first period, I was 10 and in the fourth grade, I was well educated on the facts of life...so I was soo excited, thought I was a woman. I was wearing cabbage patch doll underwear, and thought I was a woman, how funny in hindsight. I remember calling my grandmothers to tell them the great news, my one was excited for me and let me rave, the other was...well...thats good. Now I'm 28 and if I go by family history I have another 25 years before I will see an end to this "wonderful" aspect of being a woman...oh joy!

Yesterday, Leeny mentioned that she'd been a late starter at not-yet-14 (http://www.mymonthlycycles.com/vwperm.jsp?pid=401). Well, it's pretty darn embarrassing when you've made it past your fifteenth birthday without your first period.

I can eat what I want and stay skinny, but the downside is incredibly late periods. My best friends would secretly tease me about it, although they were good sorts, so no one else at school ever found out. Still, I was so relieved, at fifteen years and one month, to finally notice blood one morning. I was getting worried that something was wrong.

My mum scurried around anxiously and supplied me, but she's not the sort of person to discuss that sort of thing, so I mainly talked to my friends. They gave me all sorts of advice on which school bathrooms to use for minimum sound audience, what times to go - all the really good stuff that your mother could never know. They got me through my first couple, especially when I discovered the second-day heavy flows. I couldn't have done it without them.