It'll be hard, but try to relax as much as you can. This is a transitory stage. During puberty your hands and feet grow first, then your arms and legs, then your torso. Your hips will probably grow before your breasts, making then look huge when they're not. Even though you may seem out of proportion now, eventually it will all fit together nicely. Don't diet! It's normal to feel abnormal and dieting will only interfere with you nutrition and growth, and if you don't have enough body fats, it will also prevent you from getting your period. Just as you feel self-conscious, your friends do too. Pick clothes that enhance your best features, which may mean giving up a favorite shirt or dress in place of a more flattering one that makes you feel better. And exercise to promote muscle growth and toning.

Your body's just getting used to having periods. Usually for the first two years after your first period (called menarche) your periods won't be regular. If you're sexually active and you're missed more than one period, definitely go to the doctor for a pregnancy test. Also, if you're bleeding frequently like two or three times a month for more than a week, call the doctor because you may be losing too much blood. This can lead to anemia, which you feel tired, dizzy and look pale. To regulate their periods, some girls have to be put on hormone or birth control pills for three to six months and then taken off to see if their periods are regular.

Yes, Tampons and virginity have nothing to do with each other. You're a virgin until you have sex, some people would say until you have intercourse and a male's penis goes into your vagina. Inserting a tampon into your vagina isn't considered having intercourse, and therefore has no bearing on your virginity. Some young women worry that inserting a tampon before they've ever had sex will tear the tissue at the opening of the vagina called the hymen. But tampons are small enough that most of the time they can be used without tearing the hymen. Feel free to use them before you're sexually active, like any young women do.

Probably not. Puberty is a series of physical and emotionally changes that occur at different times for all of us, usually between nine to twelve years old for girls. Ask your mom when she started her period. Because late-bloomers usually follow in their mom's footsteps. Also you need a certain amount of body fat to get your first period. If you're athletic or have an eating disorder, you may still develop, but you might not get your period for a while. Talking your feelings out will probably help you feel better. Remember, regardless of how late, you will eventually develop. If not by age eighteen, see a health care practitioner.

Following her advice won't have any effect on your period. Almost all cultures have some rules, ceremonies or myths surrounding women getting their periods. This probably started as ways to explain the previously unknown and mysterious process of menstruation and some of the folklore still survive today with our elders. Rather than just dismiss her suggestions, use them as opportunity to talk to your grandma about how life was for her growing up. You might learn something interesting about your heritage and get closer to your grandma too.

While it's true that once you have your period you're biologically able to produce and carry a fetus, it doesn't mean that you're ready to. Being ready to means having the physical, emotional and financial capacity to care for a child. Other things have to be taken into consideration, like your age. Going through a pregnancy during adolescence young women, babies born to teens are often of low birth weight and are premature. Emotionally you haven't gone through any of the tests you need to figure out who you are, what you need, and how to take care of yourself. Having a baby too early limits your emotional growth, not to mention your freedom, or chances at a good education and job. It's better to wait until you can give your baby and yourself the best future possible.

When you start puberty, one breast usually develops before the other, sometimes as early as six months before. Even once they're fully developed, there's still a slight difference in size, with the right one usually bigger than the left. Some girls have major differences between breast sizes at the end of puberty, though it's rare. If you do and you find it really bothers you, there are two things you can do. One is to get padding for the smaller breast and wear it in you bra. The other is more drastic because it involves getting surgery to either reduce the larger breast or enlarge the smaller breast to even them out.

Only consider this last alternative after a serious chat with your parents and a doctor.

Hormone changes cause their public, axillary, and facial hair to grow, their testicles and penis grow, their voices to change, acne to develop, and increased perspiration. Most guys start maturing two years later than girls, around eleven to fourteen years old, but as they do, their muscle mass increases, their shoulders broaden, and they get a big growth spurt. Many boys also have their first 'wet dream' in mid-to late puberty. Wet dreams happen when a guy has an erection and ejaculates in his sleep, all outside his control. Guys have their own puberty horror stories, such as feeling their penises are too small or that they don't have enough public hair or getting erections in public. They all have to find ways to cope during this awkward time.