Welcome to Your Period

The #1 best-selling, award-winning guide to getting your period for the first time, from ‘Dolly Doctor’ Dr Melissa Kang and journalist Yumi Stynes (Ladies, We Need to Talk).

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 ⭐

Author Biography

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.