Color of my period or whatever is hapening- I need ya'll's opinions!?!

Color of my period or whatever is hapening- I need ya'll's opinions!?

There is nothing really in my underwear- just wheni wipe but when i do wipe it is a brown color and stuff that looks like sking or something. Am i having my first period? Why is it not red?

I am going to be thirteen next month and my mom does not know what is wrong. Can you all help?

if this is your first period, let me say congratulations and welcome to the sisterhood. Your probably had a small amount of bleeding previously, but so little it never made it out of your cervix. so now your doing it again, and this time your uterus expelled more tissue and you cramped alittle and so you discharged the old blood. Old blood is brown, fresh blood is red. sometimes when you have a period you may have huge (big as your palm) clotty stuff. dont worry. thats ok. what your body is doing is actually sloughing off the lining of your uterus. like the thin skin from a blister, only its really got a lot of blood vessels in it in case it needs to grow a baby. It makes if fresh every month, and if you dont get pregnant it expells it and makes mor e fro next month. anyway broown is just old blood. red is fresh blood, dark purpley almost is that layer of lining your getting rid of. Hope this helps.