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I think I was in 7th or 8th grade. Can't even remember! My mom didn't do anything.

I was in 6th grade. That morning I had gone to the Orthodontist to have my braces adjusted, so my mom was letting me stay home the rest of the day. My dad was also sick at home. I went to the bathroom when I got home and realized I got my first period. I tried to get my mom's attention from the bathroom, but she was busy making soup for my dad so I sat in the bathroom for like 10 minutes until she finally came and gave me some pads lol. It wasn't a traumatizing experience at all and I'm glad I had proper sex ed by then that explained what a period was.

My youngest sister flipped. her. shit. when she got her first period because she had no idea what it was. I guess her school wasn't as great with the sex education.

No and I was SO embarrassed to tell my mom. I was 10 and she hadn't really talked to me about it yet (I only learned about it at school). All my sisters started at 13 so she probably thought she had time.

I was 10 and my mom was out of town. I jumped on my bed and told my dad I could have a baby. He wasn't too impressed with my declaration. LOL My bff lived down the street and was a couple years older. So we talked about it. My mom says i called my God mom before her, which is a sore spot. I don't remember it like that at all though.

It was horrible. HORRIBLE.

It was may, and my parents were in Las Vegas for a week so us kids were with my aunt & grandma. Early in the week I started having excruciating stomach pains and spent most of the week in pain and uncomfortable. I even went to the ER, and my mom took me for bloodwork when she got home. My white blood cell count was low, but not low enough to be mono, and I had been running a fever that whole week.

Over Memorial Day, I got my first period. I was 11. My fever broke, pain went away & my repeat bloodwork was normal.

Ever since, I've gotten a fever & horrible pains during my period.

I was really young (9 years old) & thought I had made a mess in my underwear so I hid them in the bottom of the washing pile. Luckily my mum found them on the same day & explained what was happening. She made a real fuss of me & I remember feeling very grown up, I was even allowed to skip dance class because I didn't want to wear a leotard with a pad. Overall a confusing but positive experience for me!

It was a week after I turned 12. We had just come home from breakfast after we went to church. I think my mom knew what happened by the sound of my yell. She threw me a pad and later gave me a book.

I was in the 6th grade*. My friend was spending the night and we got up really early to go play tennis. I had to sneak into my mom's bathroom to get a pad, which I had NO idea how to use (I tried to put it in my underwear before putting the underwear on...)
After a while I was able to shake off my friend and go tell my mom. She took me out for a women's day, and I was SO embarrassed. I think I would have preferred we just pretend nothing had happened!

*Thinking back I may have actually been in 5th grade. I was the first of all my friends, which made it super awkward.

I was 12. Summer after 6th grade. I was suppose to go to the mall with a friend and I woke up to my period. I was kind of confused so I asked my sister if it was for sure my period. I called my friend and had her bring me a pad before we went to the mall. I hated the pad so much I ended up buying a tampon from one of those dispensers in the bathroom. I didn't live with my mom. Just my dad and sister. I can't even remember if I told my mom or my sister did for me.

I was really young as well (only nine years old) and we were in the middle of a family hiking trip on a 95 degree day in the middle of July. Of course it happened at the bottom of the valley and we had to cut our day short because of it and then spend the next two or so hours hiking back up a really steep trail. It was absolutely horrible and traumatizing and the overwhelming memory for me the entire time was thinking that I was going to pass out (and being super embarrassed that people passing us along the way kept stopping and asking if I was alright because my face was beat red) and my mom saying over and over again, "You're growing up so fast! You're a woman now!" Ugh. Talk about something awkward to hear at nine years old. I was so so embarrassed and just wanted the day to be over.

I was at my friend's 12th birthday party (I was 11). We were inside of Claire's at the mall and I felt something... I just KNEW what it was.
My friend's mom gave me a pad, and then I pranced around the rest of the day like I was on top of the world. I was the only girl at the party who had started her period yet, so I was bragging to everyone "Guess what? I am wearing a pad right now. I started my period." I was so proud of myself.

So embarrassing.

I was 11 and my Mum let me have the day off school because I felt embarrassed and didn't want anyone to find out!

I was like 15 so we weremore in the camp of "it's about time" than anything. I was well aware of what was going on since I was such a late bloomer & was embarrassed it was so late ha!

I didn't even tell my mom. I knew where she kept so her supplies, so I just took some and she never noticed. She found out months later while doing laundry and some of my undies had period stains.

I was 13. Nothing traumatic. We had been out shopping all day & when I came home I noticed something on my underwear, so I wiped, saw blood & went & told my mom. She was happy but didn't do anything special. I was super excited. I wrote down the date in a journal & everything. I was the last of my friends to get it, on top of being coined the "smart" & "good" one so I felt like I finally fit in somehow. (Oh, the tween years!)

@pui: lol! Similar situation here!

I was 10 - summer before 6th grade - and I knew what it was so I screamed and screamed for my mom's attention (I was so mad I started my period! And even more mad she didn't hear me.) I sat there until she FINALLY came in. I remember her asking if she could tell my dad. I said no! Then she had to go to the store for pads.

Ugh.