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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Top comments
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)
rileyrae0000 23
Yeah she should have known long ago. Why are you even posting this as an FML? How is this anything but your fault?
TiffyTaffy96 13
How old is your daughter that she didn't even know what to do? And why haven't you had the talk with her yet?
infernno 23
So help her instead of posting the situation on the internet? Great parenting, OP.
skyttlz 32
I didn't learn about periods until I was 10. And I hear girls are starting as young as 7 or 8. maybe that's the case with op.
Emiweb 9
This isn't an FML. I hope you didn't make her feel silly or self-conscious. Help the poor girl out.
reaper4012 2
this is why sex ed is important
MonkyTheKitty 6
Poor girl :( It really is scary
bubbles1010 5
How is getting your period scary?
countryb_cth 38
You suddenly gush blood from your genitals and then get back to me on that.
caseDL6 12
judging by your profile you've never had to deal with getting one... i can assure you, bleeding unexpectedly out of your genitals is indeed scary.
SPN_lover666 27
#50, you must be a guy. If you have never been told what a period was and suddenly got it, it would be terrifying. Girls who have never been told that blood would be coming out of their ****** every month, think they are dying.
rabid_otaku 29
YDI for not telling her about her period.
greatfirstdate 18
It kind of disturbs me that you would say "**** my life" to this, because it looks like a shaming of your daughter for not knowing what's happening while she's having her first period. I'm hoping that you're not familiar with what constitutes an FML.
fakedsincerity 32
Girls have enough stigma about their periods being gross without their own parents being awful about it. I hope you real life reaction was more helpful and less self-indulgent than FML.