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)
OpposingKilljoy 14
wow everyone is being a bit harsh on the OP.
FweakofCydonia 40
We don't know how old OP's daughter is. If she's a little girl, of course OP hasn't told her yet what a period is. Cross-generational studies are showing that girls are getting them earlier and earlier.
SexiChick22 9
I don't think she would appreciate you announcing it on the internet that's her privacy how rude
becca9985 34
In the mom's defense, my own mother talked to me about periods before mine started, as well as whatever my health class had to say about it (can't really remember that class), but it was still scary and somewhat unnerving when it started.
Zelda9678 11
Poor girl. :( Maybe you should've told her about this? I know is awkward, but it's better for her than going through this. I knew what was going on and why it was happening but my mom never told me anything either. She never told me what to do, or even how to get blood out of clothes. That led to an embarrassing moment where I brought her a tampon and asked her what I should do. Not only did she laugh at me and not tell me what to do, but later, she just had to tell my sister. I can't imagine what it must've been like for OP's daughter. She was pretty smart though, she had the right idea. I admire that.
bonedrii 4
You never spoke with her about this before?
HermioneEverdeen 7
More like **** her life considering her mom couldn't be bothered to give her the talk.
InfiniteSecret 20
What happened to learning about the human body and it's bodily functions. Has education really gone down hill that much ???