Mum, something dreadful happened in school today.As I was playing I felt wet and I went to the toilet. I saw some blood on my underpants. I went to the medical unit at school . They gave me a sort of padding to use and sent me home.What is it mum? What is happening to me.
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Now, you said the baby would arrive. But how does the baby arrive Mum? I must know about it. All my friends tell me several things but I think most of what they think is not correct.
What if some of my young friends do not understand the gravity of the situation and go in to have such bodily relationships with their boyfriends even before getting married. Will they produce babies just like older women?
Mum, I know of an older sister of one of my friends who became pregnant before her marriage and she hid it from her parents because of fear. She went to a quack practitioner with her boyfriend to get an abortion. She did get it aborted but I heard she got infected. She had fever and pain for a long time. When her parents came to know of it they took her to a specialist doctor but it was too late. The doctor said she may never get to be a mother in the future. When her boyfriend heard that he left her too.
Tell me how can young girls like us protect ourselves from such unwanted sexual influences. Also whether there are any ways to protect ourselves from having babies even if a girl goes in for such things with a boyfriend. Don't worry mum. I won't tarnish your name by doing something like that. I need to tell some girls who are desperate, yet ignorant, before they get into trouble.