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By Anonymous - 08/08/2015 02:16 - United States - Dayton

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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By Anonymous - 10/02/2022 11:59

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

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By embarassed_chick - 24/08/2009 19:59 - United States

Today, I got my first period. My dad bought me a card and had everyone in my family sign it. FML

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By tbree - 19/09/2014 22:38 - United States - San Francisco

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

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By ohhdear.___. - 26/03/2012 14:54 - Canada - Hamilton

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

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By Anonymous - 05/05/2015 15:31 - Australia - Burwood

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

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By Anonymous - 30/11/2009 02:39 - United States

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

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By hellnooo - 15/08/2009 23:06 - United States

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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By Anonymous - 27/01/2012 22:03 - United States

Today, I had to make a doctor's appointment for my daughter. Apparently she thought it would be better to wipe herself with Clorox tough scrub disinfecting wipes than tell me she'd caught an STD. FML

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By Crampon - 27/03/2009 19:15 - United States

Today, I called my mom to tell her that I finally got my period. There was an awkward pause. She was at work. I was on speakerphone. FML

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By Anonymous - 13/07/2011 13:31 - United States

Today, at a family reunion, my dad announced to everyone that I'd finally started my menstrual cycle. My grandmother started sobbing hysterically. FML

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luarasticks 13

Sunday 9 August 2015 0:05

um, maybe you shouldve taught her about her about her body?

kangx1 28

Sunday 9 August 2015 0:10

**** 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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Drosophila82 18

Monday 10 August 2015 6:13

That is awful

doubleofuck 20

Monday 10 August 2015 12:48

Teach your kids about puberty and sex before she's trying something else to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. Education is power.

EvaTheAwsm 8

Monday 10 August 2015 14:08

I was crying when I first got mine, but luckily my mom was home to help me :/

kalbrek009 20

Monday 10 August 2015 16:14

How did you not talk to her about this beforehand? Does she not have friends who know about it either?

linzhart333 8

Monday 10 August 2015 18:09

...and that's definitely your fault.

laden_swallow09 34

Monday 10 August 2015 20:03

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and assume that OP believes sexual education should be left solely on the school system's shoulders.

KaidensCrow 18

Monday 10 August 2015 21:32

did you walk in the bathroom on her? was she doing this out in the open? how did you see her doing this?

Kiziku_fml 7

Tuesday 11 August 2015 3:19

Don't feel bad op, even though I had the talk with my parents I still reacted like I was dying when I first got mine at the age of 12. It just something about seeing the blood that sends a girl into panic mode.

anyoldnamewilldo 23

Tuesday 11 August 2015 16:46

How could you make her go through that? As a mother you owed her an explanation of what to expect when it happens and educate her about her body. You totally failed her and I feel sorry for her. Try not to drop the ball about sex and pregnancy now or she will be crying about NOT having her period soon. SMDH

indigohippopo 20

Wednesday 12 August 2015 1:42

YDI for being her mother and not teaching her about these things.

Shade1982 20

Wednesday 12 August 2015 11:24

You do realise a mother doesn't actually know WHEN the first period comes? There is no set rule on when you give your daughter that talk, ot the sex talk or similar talks. It could be she matured early and got her first period earlier than expected.