Your first period..

Quality

They say girls are getting their periods younger now...

What age were you?

I was 11. which was pretty young.

Nevyn

I was 12 years old, these days it ranges between 9 and 13.
Which is a bit shocking when I think about how it could be my daughter from next summer onwards.

Cathmandooo

I was 12 and the first of my group of girls who were all older than me. Scared the bejaysus out of me, I never got 'the talk'.

Femelade

I was 16!!

Stench Blossoms

I was 14

Dudess

12. I remember feeling really sad and teary for little or no reason, then voila! The explanation presented itself. It was only a couple of drops for the first couple of months which was a nice gentle way to be "broken in".

RuailleBuaille

12. I was so excited!
I got over that pretty sharpish!

xzanti

12 and it coincided with a bout of food poisoning, literally, the same day Oh yeah and I was in a strangers house in Leitrim, went down with 2 friends to visit a reletive of one of them... So I was home sick aswel.. Didn't even have my mammy with me...

RuailleBuaille

Aww xzanti that sucks, most defo need a mammy figure around at a time like that!

minxie

i was 13....:eek:
in my home -ec class.. teacher sent me to the sick bay upstairs:D

xzanti

RuailleBuaille wrote: »

Aww xzanti that sucks, most defo need a mammy figure around at a time like that!

Well there was a kind of mammy figure there, my friends mam, but she was a bit of a lunatic .. Started asking me if I was pregnant when the food poisoning started.. I was 12 ffs

ecaf

I was about 14, I remember thinking I was later than others to be getting them. At the time I couldn't wait to get them, 'cos I wanted to be like the others. Different storey these days!

I also remember that some how my mothers aunt (in-law) heard that I had got 'them', and said that I was way too young to be getting them! I was so mortified that she even knew. :mad:

xzanti

I know a girl who's mother took her out for dinner to celebrate when she got her first period... Always found that a bit..

Quality

xzanti wrote: »

I know a girl who's mother took her out for dinner to celebrate when she got her first period... Always found that a bit..

Sounds like a judy blume book!!!

Lets all celebrate becoming a lady!!

SarahJ

I thnik I was about 13, I felt quite old tho. Got it once, then not again for a couple of months, then low and behold, was supposed to go on a day trip to Wexford, and it arrived!! Its always been great with timing eh!

cee_jay

Cathooo wrote: »

I was 12 and the first of my group of girls who were all older than me. Scared the bejaysus out of me, I never got 'the talk'.

I hadn't gotten "the talk" either - I was 11. Woke up one morning and thought I was dying. Got the day off school because I was inconsolable.

SarahJ

It is pretty scary when you think about the first time tho. You're told about it, but no-one can prepare you for that pain!!

larko

I was about 12. The worst was that I was still in primary school and my mam gave me a pack of maxi pads:eek:. The size of them was unreal AND I had to try and be really discreet trying to shove one up my sleeve when going to the toilet. Kids today.... don't know they're born... ha ha.. always wanted to say that.

xzanti

larko wrote: »

I was about 12. The worst was that I was still in primary school and my mam gave me a pack of maxi pads:eek:. The size of them was unreal AND I had to try and be really discreet trying to shove one up my sleeve when going to the toilet. Kids today.... don't know they're born... ha ha.. always wanted to say that.

OMG, those things were a nightmere, they were like surf boards, hated them.. Lillets all the way..

LolaDub

Think i was 13, i remember being in first year and all the girls had it but me!

Millie

I was 12 and was very upset and embarrassed when I got them.

And for a few months I used to put the ST's (that word still make's me shudder) on the incorrect way, until one day a new brand said remove peel and stick to pants :eek:
Periods didn't seem half as painful after that lesson!

Awayindahils

13 in the my middle of my end of 1st year exams. I remember thinking 'ah so thats that then' and went on with the rest of the exam. Still always get one during summer exams.

SarahJ

Millie wrote: »

I was 12 and was very upset and embarrassed when I got them.

And for a few months I used to put the ST's (that word still make's me shudder) on the incorrect way, until one day a new brand said remove peel and stick to pants :eek:
Periods didn't seem half as painful after that lesson!

Haha what were you doing??


I hate the word panty liner. Mainly cos I hate the word panty

ecaf

xzanti wrote: »

OMG, those things were a nightmere, they were like surf boards, hated them.. Lillets all the way..

And am I right in thinking that they usedn't to be like the pads are today, all nicely wrapped up in green / purple covers? I think they used to be just a big huge thick pad, you had to kinda try to fold it and then try to hide it in a pencil case size thing!
(I'm not that old!!! Its just my vague memory of the first few years, before Always introduced the green folded and wrapped things!)

And my mam used to always refer to them as ST's - cringe! I hated that word, having said that I think I hated anything associated with them at all.
She tried to be all politically correct and not have a big deal out of it, but it seemed to have the opposite effect on me, and saying the word period for years would have me checking did my cheeks go red. Even if it was an accounting term 'Period end'.

Jules

I was 9/10 was in 4th class and i thought i had cut the inside of my leg, as the teacher for a band-aid and she asked me what was it for and i told her i had cut the inside of my leg while i was sitting on the swing... she went red and called my mother. I was brought home, and a big stupid looking... pillow is all i can call it, put on and then direct to the couch!

Quality

Stay Free Maxi Pads :eek::eek::eek:

Boston

Puberty hit about 10 years ago and I've yet to have my period, anybody think there might a problem ?

Beth

I was 8
At home, and terrified - I hadnt gotten the big "talk" about it coz i was so young!!! I thought i was dying :eek: All my mother and sister could do was roll around laughing. I still remember the tears streaming down their faces

Karen_*

Ah bless you Beth you poor thing!:(

I was 13.

Anti

Boston wrote: »

Puberty hit about 10 years ago and I've yet to have my period, anybody think there might a problem ?

Yeah problem is you have the wrong sex organs to have a period, maybe you should have paid attention in sex-ed :rolleyes:

GeturGun

Millie wrote: »

I was 12 and was very upset and embarrassed when I got them.

Yeah I was very upset as well (was 12) my mum was like; "what are you crying for?"

Still don't know the answer to that!

fonpokno

xzanti wrote: »

I know a girl who's mother took her out for dinner to celebrate when she got her first period... Always found that a bit..

My mam bought me cake... I was 11 and got it in the middle of school just before choir practice. Mother picked me up and when I told her she nearly crashed the car.

We then went to the shops, bought cake and she proceeded to tell everyone when we got home. Mortified.

Beth

Ah I'm hoping i'll be over them a whole lot sooner seeing as i started sooner
I wouldnt have minded a cake fonpokno!! I got pillows. Jaysus those things were huge!!!

eve

I was just gone 14. Happened on the second day of second year in secondary school. A month earlier and I would have been out of the country with no family with me.

Nevyn

Boston wrote: »

Puberty hit about 10 years ago and I've yet to have my period, anybody think there might a problem ?

That would explain the moodiness and the occasional strop and angry outburst

GirlInterrupted

Quality wrote: »

Sounds like a judy blume book!!!

Lets all celebrate becoming a lady!!

I was 11.

My parents took the entire family (myself and four brothers) out to 'celebrate'. I'm scarred for life by the experience. They even made my brothers 'congratulate' me.

They're odd like that. They kept a box of condoms on the kitchen windowsill, because they didn't want anyone 'taking risks'.

I can't take them anywhere.

SMG123

Femmy wrote: »

I was 16!!

I was 16 too

ellebelle

I got mine on FRIDAY THE 13th of May in my twelfth (spelling??) year on this planet at about 2 in the afternoon.......... in between english & french classes in my first year of secondary school........

Maple

Think I was 13/14 when I got my first one. Damned things would appear then disappear for 6 months at a time.

My mother told my father that his little girl had become a "woman". The mortification.

My younger sister got hers when she was 8, she still believed in Santa at the time too. Bless her.

rainbow kirby

I was 13, just after starting 2nd year in secondary school. Surprised me a little, but I was glad that they'd finally started. Though I'm 24 now and they're still not regular (haven't had more than 8 in a year since I was 17).

wicklowgal

I was 14.I had just been stayin in my aunts for the weekend and I woke up to it on Monday morning.I was bloody(excuse the pun!)delighted because I was the last of all my friends!Instead of just telling my mother I had gotten it(too embarassed),I made her guess what I had to tell her........took her 20 minutes!

GirlInterrupted

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

I was 11.

My parents took the entire family (myself and four brothers) out to 'celebrate'. I'm scarred for life by the experience. They even made my brothers 'congratulate' me.

Talk about morto!

I was 11 too. And not very happy about it. I balled my eyes out the whole day because I didn't want to be a grown up.

The worst part about it was that the other girls who had started, figured I must have because I was filled out at that stage. They would lure me into wooded aeras and with promises of gore and merriment, only to accost me with girly talks. As a result, I still actually can't talk about that stuff in public.

I have a sick stomach is my code for I'm having a terrible tom.

sam34

Quality wrote: »

Stay Free Maxi Pads :eek::eek::eek:

oh god yeah, i remember them, they were awful yokes. thank god for always!

i was 11, in 5th class of primary school.
my mother told my father, who said it to me the next day - CRINGE:o

BK2

I was about 14/15. I remember I was waiting for them for ages because my older sister got them when she was about 11 so there was a huge gap and then my younger sister got them before me aswell!

Madame Razz

I was 11.

In fifth class I think. Mum let me take the day off, Herself and the father were off anyways, not sure why, and we went off to Killarney for the day.

As I remember correctly I got yummy chocolate cake and they bought me a wood carving of a cat sitting down with a fishing rod, which I still have!!

Toots

I was 12 or 13. I remember I had such bad back pain for the week before I got it, I even asked my little sis to walk on my back! Horrible. Was plagued with really bad period pain for the first year, but it settled down after that thankfully.

Pythia

11. First one in my class. I told my mum who told my teacher! How embarrassing!

Ginny

I was 10 or 11, first out of my friends and I had an awful time of it from the first month until I finally had to be put on the pill at 15.
I hated the whole experience I was such a Tomboy until then, then all of a sudden my body was making me so ill every month.

ChewChew

I was 13. First proper day of 1st year when all the rest of the years started back. I never panicked so much in all my life. Thank god my big sister was in the school, although she was so annoyed when I walked over to her at lunch time infront of all her friends. . our conversation went something like this:

Chew: eh. . somethings going on
Sister: get the fook away from me
Chew: I need your help
Sister: I warned you bout talkin to me in school
Chew: yeah but I need one of those gurlie things
Sister: I swear I'm gonna bate ya when we get home
Chew: I just need one st
Sister: FFS I dont have any now go away
Chew: Has any of yer mates?
Sister: I'm not askin me mates now go away
Then I start crying
Sister: FFS I'm gonna murder you!!!!!

Then she brought me to the priciple who had even less sympathy for me but she proceeded to give me something that resembled a papers nappy.

Gah.

F.A.

11. A few days before Christmas. It was in the evening, I was alone at home with my big brother. The pain was horrible, so I rang my mother who still at work. She (like me) thought my stomach was upset... Anyway, I went to the toilet and noticed the lightest trace of pink (I swear, it was really, really light pink) in my underwear, and for some reason I knew immediately. The next day it really started - the pain was unheard of. For years I was really, really angry at nature for making women have to go through all the really ****ty parts of procreation when men only have enjoyable physical sensations. Pathetic, I know, but I still find that really unfair! :mad: That's why if I ever have a daughter, I will make sure to spoil her rotten when she has her first period(s). Establish some kind of fairness...

MayMay

Almost 13