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Becoming a Woman - Your first period?

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AGAA4 Sat 16-Apr-22 15:04:23

I was about 12 and remember those awful sanitary belts.

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Hopikins Sat 16-Apr-22 15:04:13

10 finished at 54

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snowberryZ Sat 16-Apr-22 15:03:43

My mother and grandmother apparently both started fairly young. 10 or 11.
So no idea why I was such a late starter.
I was quite a skinny child so that may have had some bearing on things.

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snowberryZ Sat 16-Apr-22 15:01:52

Ilovecheese

12 I think, then a gap of about a year before another one. Never felt it was anything to envy!

Absolutely.
Once I realised that a huge part of being a woman involved having periods for the next 40 or so years I soon lost the 'envy'confused

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Ilovecheese Sat 16-Apr-22 14:57:28

12 I think, then a gap of about a year before another one. Never felt it was anything to envy!

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Shelmiss Sat 16-Apr-22 14:56:44

I was 12 when I started my periods and 49 when I had my last one!

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snowberryZ Sat 16-Apr-22 14:55:41

At what age did you transition from girlhood into womanhood?
I was a late bloomer and only started my periods at the age of 15.
I can remember feeling jealous of my friends who (in my eyes) were more grownup and were turning into real women before me and leaving me behind.
At the other end of the scale my menopause (another 'joy' of being a woman) started quite late. So I suppose these things balance out in the end.
What with pregnancy and childbirth the female body is a truly fascinating thing and has to go through a lot.
Men are lucky they don't have to go through these things.

How old were you when you started your periods?

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