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[gunshotbeauty.livejournal.com]

Did you parents\mum celebrate when you got your first period? I've read stories of people having parties and cake to celebrate a first period.With mine no big event but about two years later we were at the table at dinner and my dad said we should get you a cake when you get yours and me and my sister laughed and said we'd been having them for at least a year.

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[cuzgoatsrkool.livejournal.com]

i didn't have a celebration..i was on a class trip to quebec...and even though i knew all about it..when i saw my panties i didn't believe it...went to bed and had horrible pain all night..the next morning i finally decided yes i had gotten my period...couldnt stand the pads at first..i called my mom and cried a little telling her i got it...i think she was wondering why i was crying, but it weirded me out..plus being away from home :/

[casey1979.livejournal.com]

i started on my 11th birthday at my grandmas house and my aunts had pads so i stole some of theirs. i was embarrassed and didn't tell anyone for months that i had started. my family poked fun at puberty so it wasn't a happy occassion

[pillu.livejournal.com]

I didnt have a celebration. I went to the bathroom and thought i was bleeding to death, my mum laughed at me and said it was my period. I had read all the books etc on getting your period, I had tampons and pads ready for when I started.........but I never through there would be that much blood lol.

[jkatkina.livejournal.com]

I didn't tell my parents for the first long while.. used to line my panties with toilet paper and hide the bloodstained pairs in the back of my closet (ew) because though I knew what a period /was/, mom had /never/ told me where she kept the pads. I only ended up telling her when I needed to - I had to back out of a pool party because I didn't have the guts to try a tampon. ^^; Then she wanted to take me out for dinner, but considering I was PMSing, bitter about missing my party, and didn't much like her anyways, I declined celebrating the day that mom found out I started bleeding from my crotch.

[amiga500.livejournal.com]

My mum seemed sort of disappointed, and I never did tell anyone else. If I have a daughter, I'm going to have to do things differently.

[achtungbaby.livejournal.com]

that was pretty much the same with me. my mom just looked at me like i was dirty or something. Lucky for me i had older sisters who helped me out.
I'm so totally gonna do things differently if i ever have a daughter.

[bladezbratt.livejournal.com]

No my gma didnt (thats who raised me) I had it for a good month before I said anything to her and she accidently found out. All she did was hug me cause I started crying.

[ourika.livejournal.com]

I started about a half a year before anybody found out. I was stealing my stepmom’s pads, and I remember one point where I actually borrowed my baby brother’s diaper b/c she was almost out of pads. I hadn’t wanted to tell my family. I was all excited, but my dad would find out, and it would be embarrassing.

I ended up getting it while I was out of town. I was visiting my godmother’s mother (me and my godsister where there for two weeks), and of course there were no pads for me to steal. I told her, she took me to the supermarket, I picked out some stuff, and we left. Easy.

The next day she came to me all embarrassed. She’d told my godmother, and she felt guilty because she hadn’t realized it was my first time. She’d have helped me pick pads, etc. I said it was no big deal and left it at that. My family never found out I’d gotten it sooner. A few weeks later, my godmother (who was also my GS leader) took me out for a beautiful lunch at my favorite restaurant followed by a DQ. She said we should celebrate my becoming a woman. She also told me about sex (which I knew and was embarrassed to be told about during dinner), but she explained it using “real” words instead of the words from class. I distinctly remember being told that when I got older, guys might want to pop my cherry…

Anyway, I got lucky. The rest of the girls in my troop (including her own daughter) just got ice-cream. I was first, and it happened for me when she was doing her best financially. Woohoo! Yay Bonzai lunch!!

[thornedillusion.livejournal.com]

I was staying with my best friend when I started a few weeks after my 12th birthday. My mother had already told me about periods, given me books to read, and made sure I had a supply of pads available, so I had pads with me. I told my best friend I'd started, and she and her mother followed me into the bathroom the next time I had to go and sang to me.

I have weird friends.

[xcontortx.livejournal.com]

when i started id idnt knwo what it was. it wasnt blood i just woke up wiath a discooration my mom looked at it said you started you period and gave me pads. i was 9 a week before my 10th b day

[voidofher.livejournal.com]

i was 13 when i got mine. i didnt tell my mom because i didnt know how to ( i am SO shy )... i knew where the pads were so that wasnt a problem, but after like 3 days she probably noticed that there were used pads in the trash can in the bathroom so she came and asked me if i got my period, i said yes, she seemed happy and said im a woman now, hugged me, asked a few questions and asked if i had any questions to ask her. she asked if i want to celebrate and i didnt want to, so we didnt.

[x-lydia.livejournal.com]

No party, but my mum took me to the department store and bought me a pink-and-lavender flannel nightie with a matching nightcap. She'd already given me the pads, the educational cartoon pamphlet, and the pep-talk (a rather smug one, if memory serves) a few weeks earlier so I'd be prepared. When I actually got it I freaked a little, because I thought it meant I couldn't do tomboy things anymore. I was about a week short of twelve.

I switched from pads to tampons very soon...easier to carry to school, plus one really canswim, play volleyball, etc. wearing them.

[oh-so-quiet.livejournal.com]

i was nine. my mom handed me my coat and took me to a bookstore (even though it was past my bedtime) and bought me a book about it. my dad looked crestfallen. that was about it - no celebration. they were still nice about it, though.

when i have a daughter, i'm sure i'll celebrate with her - take her to a spa or something. start her journey through womanhood on a positive note, you know?

[chink.livejournal.com]

I was twelve and almost nine months when i got my first ones. before the start of eighth grade, had a marching band gig, got up at the crack of dawn. noticed leaky gross feeling twenty minutes before the march. toilet paper was my best friend. fun times had by all.
I didn't tell my parents, though. my family had always been really blunt about all of it, and i knew all of it. That period only lasted a day, and the next one wasn't until three months later, before a pool party (how cliche) of a friend's, popped in a tampon that I had from a sample pack from one of those girlie magazines, and i was all good.
parentals found out that june, no celebration, no nothing.