Today, I found my daughter sobbing and trying to stick a wad of gauze to her vagina. She was having her first period. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my daughter got her first period. I'm the one shaking and hyperventilating. I'm more nervous for her than I was for myself back when I got my first period. I just now understand my mom while she was pacing through house back and forward when I got my first. FML
Today, my daughter got her first period, so I went and got some products for her, certain that I knew what was needed. The lady cashier took one look in my basket and sympathetically asked if it was my daughter's first period and if I wanted help, since I clearly had no idea what I was doing. FML
Today, my daughter said she would never ever have kids because then she'll bleed through her vagina or get stitches on her stomach. She turned 7 last week and learnt this at school from friends. I'm yet to have the "periods" talk with her. Now I'm scared to start it. FML
Today, I got my first period. My dad bought me a card and had everyone in my family sign it. FML
Today, I asked my dad to take me to the store so I could get some feminine hygiene products. When we got there, he went running down the aisles yelling, "Help! My daughter's bleeding to death! Where're the tampons?!" FML
Today, I found out my 12 year old daughter is going through a bit of an "emotional" stage. I got a call from her school saying she was sitting in the corner at recess trying to cut her wrist. With a plastic spoon. FML
Today, I overheard my 14-year-old daughter telling her friend that she's saving money to get her hymen surgically removed so her first time won't hurt. FML
Today, my stepdaughter unexpectedly got her first period during a visit. I explained everything to her, then took her to the store to buy supplies and snacks. Her mother called and cussed me out for “stealing” this experience from her. Yeah I totally planned it to happen this way. FML
Today, my mom sat on a pencil and started bleeding. She then made me clean the wound on her butt and put ointment on it. FML
Today, I found out that I puke and then pass out at the sight of blood. I am a 16 year old girl expecting hundreds of periods to come. FML
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luarasticks 13
um, maybe you shouldve taught her about her about her body?
kangx1 28
**** your daughters life. I'm a guy and I can't imagine bleeding out in my genital area and not knowing what the ***** going on just imagine all the things that could be going through her head. I'd do more than cry. You should have taught her about periods atleast. I can't blame you though because she might still be young and you couldn't have known that it would come so soon
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Comments (185)
Drosophila82 18
That is awful
doubleofuck 20
Teach your kids about puberty and sex before she's trying something else to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. Education is power.
EvaTheAwsm 8
I was crying when I first got mine, but luckily my mom was home to help me :/
kalbrek009 20
How did you not talk to her about this beforehand? Does she not have friends who know about it either?
linzhart333 8
...and that's definitely your fault.
laden_swallow09 35
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and assume that OP believes sexual education should be left solely on the school system's shoulders.
KaidensCrow 18
did you walk in the bathroom on her? was she doing this out in the open? how did you see her doing this?
Kiziku_fml 7
Don't feel bad op, even though I had the talk with my parents I still reacted like I was dying when I first got mine at the age of 12. It just something about seeing the blood that sends a girl into panic mode.
anyoldnamewilldo 23
How could you make her go through that? As a mother you owed her an explanation of what to expect when it happens and educate her about her body. You totally failed her and I feel sorry for her. Try not to drop the ball about sex and pregnancy now or she will be crying about NOT having her period soon. SMDH
indigohippopo 20
YDI for being her mother and not teaching her about these things.
Shade1982 21
You do realise a mother doesn't actually know WHEN the first period comes? There is no set rule on when you give your daughter that talk, ot the sex talk or similar talks. It could be she matured early and got her first period earlier than expected.