Really feel first AF is around the corner

[diannescruffy]

DD11 seems to have blossomed overnight. She has formed little breasts (they weren't there the last time I looked), she's been super moody and extremely emotional. With first AF is it a light bleed or spotting, I just can't remember? Can't believe my big girl is turning into a young lady.

Regards,
Dianne

[Phteven]

My first AF was a torrent of blood. Nothing light or spotty about it.
It was like a scene out of Carrie.

[Trillian]

It really will vary. Some girls will have up to 2 years between getting breasts/breast buds and having their menarche. Maybe now is the time to think of how you might want to celebrate it with her. Make a little pack of comfort items for her and maybe some nice cloth pads if you're that way inclined.

[diannescruffy]

Thanks ladies, Trillian I was thinking the exact same thing, making it a celebration for her, will start putting some bits and pieces together.

Regards,
Dianne

[little_O]

My mum bought me a nice little bag to our my things in and to keep in my school bag, just in case it happened there.

[nothing2lose]

I feel the same as you Diane. My DD is almost 11 and you have pretty much described her. I think the idea of making up a little pack or going out for afternoon tea as a celebration is a nice one.

I think the pack should include chocolate! And a lavender wheat pack

[xXHopeXx]

My first AF was a torrent of blood. Nothing light or spotty about it.
It was like a scene out of Carrie.

This really made me

mine wasn't spotting, it was a definite flow of blood, but not overly heavy. i did get a lot of cramping too, though i didn't quite realise what it was until i saw the blood, i thought i had a stomach ache.
I like the idea about making it special and chocolate most definitely has to be in her pack! haha how would we survive without it?

[Traveller]

I woke up to a small massacre with mine, and it was certainly not celebrated. Love the idea of a space pack and a day out to celebrate her womanhood, I wish my mum had done that with me.

[Lisa]

My eldest daughter started getting breast buds in late 2006 early 2007 and got her first AF in Dec 2009. Hers was heavy from the start.
We celebrated it with chocolate, a movie at home and a new charm for her pandora bracelet.

[nothing2lose]

Lisa, can I ask if/when moodiness and emotional outbursts happened? How long before Af?

[Mel_B1981]

I didn't even realise my first period had started.

I was staying at my Grandma's for a holiday and she took me to the beach. At the end of the day she told me to go have a bath and put my bathers in the laundry for her to wash them. About half way through my bath Grandma came into the bathroom and showed me my bloody bathers and asked me if I knew what that was.

Told her I had no idea and she informed me it was my first period and she'll have to send Grandpa to the shops for me cause she'd had a hysterectomy and didn't have anything for me to use. I was told to wait in the bath until Grandpa got back.

The main thing I remember of it all was cracking up laughing at the brick sized pads Grandpa brought back. LOL

[diannescruffy]

There's some great ideas here ladies, n2l love the chocolate idea. DD has been moody for about a week now, she gets so short tempered with her siblings but sounds like we could be in this for a while longer.

Regards,
Dianne

[Phteven]

I don't love the chocolate idea. I'm of the opinion that needing chocolate is an unhealthy social construct.
Just call me Dolores Downer

[nothing2lose]

DD has been moody for six months or so....

[nothing2lose]

I don't love the chocolate idea. I'm of the opinion that needing chocolate is an unhealthy social construct.
Just call me Dorothy Downer

Sorry Dorothy...what was that? Couldn't hear you over sucking my Lindt ball

I actually don't crave chocolate when I get my period. I'm usually so doped up on painkillers I don't feel like eating much of anything. May be I could get DD a box of Mersyndol

[Phteven]

Get her some Neurofen Plus too. She can take them together.
If you were a really good Mother you'd put a bottle of wine in that pack as well

[nothing2lose]

Well there's the rub....if I was a "really good mother". She can buy her own underage wine like I had to.

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

Mine was heavy from the start as well. We didn't do anything special, apart from Mum bursting into tears and exclaming her baby was a woman I would second the idea of getting a little kit together for her, and keeping it in her room. I had cramps for months before I first started, and even though I knew what the cramps were and what to expect, I still hid it from Mum for a couple of days. I ruined so many knickers, lol!