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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limegreenpoopie 31
Time for "the talk".
kaybows 14
Another fabulous example of why we need better sex ed.
CaroAurelia 12
This is why we need better sex-ed. I can't fault the kid, though. Even though I was somewhat aware of what periods were like, when I first got mine when I was twelve, I was just like, "What is going ON here?!" It's scary and overwhelming.
bassist3415 8
Must be from Texas since she had no idea what was happening.
DoomedGemini 38
I remember starting my period at a friends house and having to borrow a pad(I was extremely irregular at the time so we didn't have a clue when it'd start) and I had to hide anything to do with it because her mom didn't want my friends little sister knowing about it. I did it since it was her house, her rules, but I really feel sorry for girls like her who have no clue what's going on. My mom explained it to me since I can remember and it never bothered me, it just prepared me.
Krwman 8
Why are you writing something like this about your own daughter?? Is she an object of ridicule for you??
Rosebudx 32
It's really easy to judge the OP here, but there is no mention of the daughter's age. One of my mom's coworkers had a daughter who had her first period at the age of six. SIX. She had been playing with her older brother and his friend when it hit and they were convinced she was dying. In fact, her parents rushed her to the ER only for the doctors to just shrug and say that it seemed to be a perfectly normal period that just came waaaay too early. She didn't get another one until she was eleven. My mom explained periods to me when I was 7 or 8, which was still 3 or 4 years before it struck. For all we know, this mom had planned to do the same thing but was caught off guard when her extremely young daughter got a visit from Aunt Flo too early. On the flipside, maybe she did explain about periods and her daughter just panicked.
o76923 8
Oestres at age 6 is incredibly uncommon. Even the four things that make it more likely to occur early (sexual abuse, hormonal disorders, obesity, and exposure to estrogen or testosterone analogues) rarely make it occur that early. I'm surprised the hospital didn't contact child protective services.
o76923 8
I mean menarche, not oestres. It's been too long since I took Latin, it seems.
o76923 8
You should have taught your daughter about what will happen during puberty before puberty.
Nabexis 9
If the daughter of the story was anything like what happened to me, she may have been young when she got her period. I was in 3rd grade. I didn't have a clue what was happening. School didn't even start to talk about it until the next year and even then I was the only girl in my grade who had gotten hers.
o76923 8
Your parents and your school should have started sooner. A full 10% of white girls experience menarche by age 11 and the number is higher for other racial and ethnic groups. For something as scary as sudden bleeding, I'd rather err on the side of caution.
Nabexis 9
When I first got my period I was 11 and had no clue what it was. I guess I wasn't resourceful enough to find gauze, I just screamed and yelled for my mom because I thought I was dying. My mom didn't help because her reaction was "Goddamn it, already? *sigh, then sarcastically:* Welcome to womanhood." She then explained it to me and I spent vacation cramping in bed. I can relate to your daughter. FHL
JKPwnage 27
I would think, if one didn't know what a period was, that that would be the best thing to do. Good for her for knowing what to do about a bleeding wound, but FML for her because no one ever told her about periods.