How using period underwear changed the way I live ‘that time of the month’.

Anne-Charlotte G.
7 min readJul 29, 2020
Photo by Polina Zimmerman from Pexels

“Mum, I’ve got my periods.”

I got my periods when I was eleven, a few weeks before my 12th birthday. I remember going to the bathroom, seeing the blood in my underwear, sighing and mechanically grabbing some pads my mum was keeping in the bathroom.

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Anne-Charlotte G.

Content editor by day, writer by night. Londoner with a French accent.