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**Iseulda** · 07-03-2009, 02:46 PM

Hi there - that sounds almost exactly the same as what happen to me. It's all fine.

I'm an August baby too - in the summer before my 15th birthday, I think once school was out but I can't be sure, I had this kind of brown discharge and needed to wear a panty liner for a few days. I told my mum and she had had the same thing and said my period would probably start the following month. It did - I remember we were on holidays at my grandma's house (almost exactly 4 weeks after the brown discharge) and it started and was very light, but definitely red blood this time. It lasted about 3 days - I never noticed any discomfort in the early years of my period but I did have a little of that full or bloated feeling you describe.

So to me your experience sounds totally normal - I expect in about 3 or 4 weeks you'll either get a 'proper' period, or perhaps this same brown discharge again - perhaps the gap will be longer and your period may not start for another couple of months - but this is the start of your grown up cycles.

Congratulations and welcome to womanhood

07-03-2009, 02:46 PM	#2
Iseulda Silver Contributor 100+ Posts Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: France Posts: 196	Hi there - that sounds almost exactly the same as what happen to me. It's all fine. I'm an August baby too - in the summer before my 15th birthday, I think once school was out but I can't be sure, I had this kind of brown discharge and needed to wear a panty liner for a few days. I told my mum and she had had the same thing and said my period would probably start the following month. It did - I remember we were on holidays at my grandma's house (almost exactly 4 weeks after the brown discharge) and it started and was very light, but definitely red blood this time. It lasted about 3 days - I never noticed any discomfort in the early years of my period but I did have a little of that full or bloated feeling you describe. So to me your experience sounds totally normal - I expect in about 3 or 4 weeks you'll either get a 'proper' period, or perhaps this same brown discharge again - perhaps the gap will be longer and your period may not start for another couple of months - but this is the start of your grown up cycles. Congratulations and welcome to womanhood __________________ Now let us sport us while we may; / And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, / Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power. Let us roll all our strength, and all / Our sweetness, up into one ball; And tear our pleasures with rough strife / Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run.