Welcome to Your Period: Your easy, no-silly-questions guide to handling it like a boss
About this ebook
Getting your period for the first time can be mortifying, weird and messy – and asking questions about it can feel even worse. But it doesn’t have to be like that!
This award-winning, beloved book for pre-teens and teens is packed with honest advice on all the things you need to know: from what cramps feel like to whether you can feel it coming out, to what you should do if your pad leaks onto your clothes. With case studies, first-person accounts and questions from real teens (and answers from real experts – us!), Welcome to Your Period has all the info you need to manage your period like a boss.
⭐ WINNER: 2020 ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children ⭐
⭐ New York Public Library's Top 50 Books of 2021 ⭐
⭐ LONGLISTED: 2020 ABDA Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction ⭐
Read the whole Welcome To series by Dr Melissa Kang and Yumi Stynes:
- Welcome to Your Period: Your easy, no-silly-questions guide to handling it like a boss
- Welcome to Your Boobs: Your easy, no-silly-questions guide to your breast friends
- Welcome to Consent: How to say no, when to say yes and everything in between
- Welcome to Sex: Your no-silly-questions guide to sexuality, pleasure and figuring it out
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About the author
Dr Melissa Kang and Yumi Stynes are the best-selling, award-winning authors of four books together: Welcome to Your Period, Welcome to Your Boobs, Welcome to Consent and Welcome to Sex.
Most people know Dr Melissa Kang as the longest-serving expert behind the iconic Dolly Doctor column, but she’s also a practising medical doctor for marginalised young people and has academic roles at the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Sydney. She is fifth-generation Malaysian-Chinese Anglo-Australian, which makes specialising in adolescent sexuality and sexual health all the more interesting. She continues to speak about these topics in the mainstream media.
Yumi Stynes is a second-gen Japanese-Australian TV and radio presenter who, like a lot of us, had to ‘unlearn’ period shame. She’s currently the host of Ladies, We Need to Talk, an award-winning podcast that explores all the trickiest topics and taboos about women’s health, including periods, discharge, difficult motherhood, and whether or not your vagina is weird.
