Wednesday, November 12, 2008

No Boys Allowed!

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99 of you have looked at this yet only 4 people had a puberty story to tell. C'mon people! Are you WOMEN or WIMPS! Have some courage...share a puberty story!
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Ok, this is a girls only post (Dad..you've been warned!)
So, puberty was a long time ago...way too long ago. I don't really remember too much about it. I remember the day I started my period. I was sitting there waiting for my friend Mindy and her parents to pick me up because we were going to be driving for 6 hours on our way to the state softball tournament. I had to sit in the car for 6 hours wearing a pad for the first time. Not to mention the fact that I had to play softball all weekend with one too! But hey....we won the tournament and we were state champions....so it wasn't all bad!

I remember sweating for the first time in PE....you know the kind of sweat that actually was stinky! It was so embarrassing to all of a sudden be getting sweatt spots under my arm pits. Do you remember that? Seriously I could take you to the exact spot in the gym where I was standing when I looked down and saw the sweat spot on my t-shirt!

I remember having growing pains in my legs when I was a kid, but growing pains in my "chest area" is something I do not remember. Do ya'll remember this? And why...please tell me why...do the books out there on puberty insist on using the term "breast buds"? That term needs to be outlawed! eeeewwww..... it just weirds me out!

So what about you? What do you remember about puberty? What we remember we will relive through our daughters...and what we don't remember....well, we will get to live through it with them anyway! Gosh, I can't wait!!!

16 comments:

  1. Oh goodness... puberty. Blergh! I was a bit tubby during puberty. Not over weight at all but a bit tubby... I remember when I first got my period too. I remember feeling like everyone must know, and that somehow I must seem different to people. Though I am sure no body probably knew at all.

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  2. Remember when the teacher used to read to us after lunch in elementary school. We would always take turns rubbing one anothers backs while we listened. I remember when I started wearing a bra, and I didn't want anyone to rub my back anymore. I remember that mom was on the phone when I started my period. When I said, "mom, come here please, I think I started my period." She told whoever she was talking to, "I have to go, I think Kimmie just started her period." Total humiliation! I was suppose to stay the night at Shannon Simingtons house that night. I didn't want to cancel because we had been arguing, and we were just making up. Plus Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video was going to be on, and I could watch it at her house. The absolute worst thing about puberty and jr. high, was leaking thru my pad all over my pants. I mean, to the point where the blood looked like mist on my algebra chair. Gross....Luckily, Debbie Sturdyvn let me borrow her sweatshirt to wrap around me. Hmmm....what else? I don't remember any chest pains. I am not suprised Shannon that you didn't feel any, cuz you never grew breasts. Lol! Ha ha! But me, in all my bigness, didn't feel any either. Just kidding, I am still your older sister, and have to make fun of ya a bit. My daughters are a bit sore sometimes. The leg cramps were the absolute worst. Ouch!!!

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  3. Wow, I either blocked it out all together, have a really bad memory or maybe it wasn't that bad for me. I do remember getting my period. I was visiting my cousins in the bay area. I didn't even have my mom to walk me through my
    1st one and had to dive right into tampons because they had a pool and all we did was swim all week. Don't remember growing pains in legs or my "buds"... Oh, I don't even want to think about Ella going through all this stuff!

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  4. Just remember....you asked!

    I don't remember pain in my "buds", which are still "buds" today. I do remember getting my period. It was brown, not red and I was scared. I had horrible cramping and would stay home one day almost every month because of all the cramping, horrible bleeding, vomiting and diarhea (you asked!). Then after ovarian surgery I discovered the pill which changed my life. (in high school). I also have several "most emabarrasing moments" that involve leaking. Then there was the first time I used a tampon - in CA- let's just say it got stuck, me crying, and my mom taking it out (you asked!)

    Please don't ask anymore of these kind of questions where I have to tell the world such embarrasing things. :-)

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  5. wow lee ann, you really laid it all out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the comment about 'still have buds'....I'm right there with you! And the part about your mom assisting in your little situation...TMI!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  6. hey Kel,
    if you are gonna comment on LeeAnn then you at least gotta give us something on you!

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  7. I agree....c'mon Kelly, spill the beans!

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  8. I think I must have blocked most of that out too! However, I do remember when I first discovered my "buds". I had already learned about breast cancer and about checking for lumps, so when I felt my "buds", I panicked! My mom wasn't home yet, and I was SO scared! As soon as she walked in the door, I ran to her bawling telling her to feel my lumps and that I thought I had cancer! I was traumatized ;-)

    Don't worry, my mama reassured me that it was normal and that I was just growing up... but I still remember how terrified I was!

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  9. Okay Okay, goodness....the only thing I remember is that I started my 'relationship with aunt flow' when I was 13 RIGHT on the way out the door to a basketball game...ugh...I didn't play so well and after that it was monthly cramps and staying in bed all day with a heating pad on my tummy...Can I rat my sis out and say she forgot she had a tampon in and put in another one only to leave it there for a few weeks before going in to the doc's & having her OB find it during the exam! Ugh...gross...that's all I have for you! I went from puberty one day to living on my own and paying bills when I was 15....I hardly remember it all! (back then I could work full time for Wendy's with out them getting in trouble because of my age)...

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  10. Thanks for sharing Kel. Good job!

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  11. Puberty was awful to me!!! I had weird itching "down there" for my entire 7th grade year. I got my period once in 7th grade while my mom was out of town and my right leg was in a full splint...then I did not get it again until 2 years later. Then, in 8th grade, when the "buds" really started to develop, I was getting massive cysts in them that were painful and red. At this point, I also ran to my mom, terrified I had cancer.

    I think those traumatizing years helped my to become the worrier that I am!

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  12. Well, my "buds" literally became large blossoms in one weeks time. I had A cups and went to a C cup literally like overnight. I had my first period, and BAM, there they were. I remember bra shopping with my mom, since "the girls" no longer fit in my flat chested sports bras. She brought me a Bcup, which would have made sense, but over the door to the dressing room I said, It doesn't fit! she said" what do you mean it doesn't fit?"....you can picture the rest. I cried, "the girls" hurt...and my flat chested athletic bra days were over.

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  13. I do remember pain in my breast bud region! Yep, it hurt growing these things.
    Everything I needed to know about puberty I learned from an older sister (I have three older and 1 younger). I didn't get my period until the summer before my freshman year and I was at summer camp the first time.
    I don't have any crazy or unusual puberty stories...maybe because my sisters had already experienced it all so nothing was new or exciting by the time I experienced it.

    It was fun to chat with you last night!

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  14. Ah, puberty. Good times. I do remember those "buds" being really painful. And I remember my first period vividly.

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  15. I can't believe that not a single one of you guys commented on ZITS!! Am I the only one who suffered from grotesque boils on my face in 7th & 8th grade? I just remember that I got zits before my friends did. Needless to say, I didn't have a boyfriend until I was a sophmore and the zits were being managed by tetracycline (sp?) and Retin-A!! I guess I do remember my "girls" being tender when I started sprouting them, but I don't remember when. I think I really "developed" between 8th grade and freshman year. Good times, best left forgotten! Thanks for helping relive the trauma, Shannon!

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  16. I'm with you Amy! I can't believe I forgot about ZITS, though they may have started a little later for me, like in 10th grade...and they have not stopped gracing me with their presence until just the last couple months. Ugh...hormones!

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