{"id":3028,"date":"2012-12-23T12:15:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T20:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bepreparedperiod.com\/BP\/blog\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2021-09-23T07:51:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T07:51:35","slug":"my-first-period-nandis-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bepreparedperiod.com\/blog\/my-first-period-nandis-story\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Period – Nandi’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d say I was pretty young when I first started my period. I was only 8 years old, turning 9 in about two months. I remember the day vividly. I spent the day upstairs on New Year\u2019s Eve while family and friends were over. I wasn\u2019t in the mood to be bothered with everyone laughing and talking unnecessarily loud at all. I had been in a cranky mood all month and didn\u2019t know why. In the midst of watching Purple Rain (my favorite movie), eating everything in sight, and crying before the sad part even happened, I had to go to the bathroom REALLY bad. I went, and as I wiped, I saw this \u201cred stuff\u201d on the toilet paper and some in my underwear. Being the na\u00efve little girl I was, I simply thought it was fruit juice and went on about my day (yes, fruit juice \u2013 don\u2019t judge me). After the movie finished, I went to the bathroom yet again, this time with some serious stomach pains and MORE red stuff. I began to fear that I was, in fact, starting my period, but didn\u2019t know how to get my mom away from the crowd to give her the big news. After panicking for about five minutes, I made a huge decision on my own: I grabbed one of my mom\u2019s pads and tried my best to figure out how to use the \u201cbig diaper looking thing\u201d. The next day while my mom did laundry, she found my period stained underwear and celebrated for what seemed like two hours, singing and dancing about how her little girl was becoming a woman. Boy was I glad I didn\u2019t let her know while we had company…<\/p>\n

By Nandi F.
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I\u2019d say I was pretty young when I first started my period. I was only 8 years old, turning 9 in about two months. I remember the day vividly. I spent the day upstairs on New Year\u2019s Eve while family and friends were over. 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