Women Are Sharing Bodily Functions They Thought Were Weird Until They Learned They're Actually Totally Normal

I recently asked women successful the BuzzFeed Community to archer maine astir things their bodies did that they thought were ace weird but turned retired to beryllium wholly normal. After speechmaking each their responses, I deliberation it's harmless to accidental that the United States 100% needs amended enactment education. Here are immoderate of the stories that stood retired to me:

1. "Colostrum. I assumed bosom beverage started aft a baby’s commencement and that it was achromatic similar cattle milk. Wrong! A mates weeks earlier the delivery, wide yellowish worldly started leaking out. Why TF does nary 1 archer you this?"

2. "When your fart bubble goes up to your vulva…I had nary thought however overmuch of a cosmopolitan acquisition that was."

—artisticorca74

3. "I deliberation this applies to men too, but each clip I sat down to pee, I did that small 'pee shiver.' I utilized to deliberation it was conscionable me, and past I saw that country successful Knocked Up erstwhile she did that connected the toilet. I thought I was the lone one!! Why bash we bash that?? That’s truthful weird!"

4. "Decidual cast — If you’re not squeamish, it’s worthy looking astatine Google images to get a amended thought of what it’s like. I was possibly 14 oregon 15 and successful the bath erstwhile it happened to me. I felt it ‘pass’ and saw the formed floating successful the bath water. It was terrifying due to the fact that I didn’t cognize what it was, however it happened, oregon whether I needed to worry."

"I didn’t archer anyone, adjacent though I was disquieted I was dying. Years aboriginal ,I came crossed the word decidual formed and realized what had happened. It wasn’t painful, conscionable a unusual sensation (and bloody scary owed to my deficiency of knowledge). If anything, it was benignant of easier to shed the full uterus successful 1 spell than experiencing a five-day period! Still, I don’t deliberation I privation to woody with it again."

—emmaskrey

5. "When I got married, I didn't privation to usage commencement control, truthful I work a publication astir tracking your rhythm and utilizing extortion erstwhile you're fertile. There was a batch I didn't know, but a large 1 was however it yet explained wherefore I sometimes had mucus successful my underwear during antithetic parts of the month."

"No 1 ever talked to america astir cervical mucus, and it was alarming until I understood what was going on."

—kathrynjoycrawford

6. "You tin get large earlier you commencement menstruating."

"That was a 'gotcha' question my prof asked america successful my teen psych people successful grad school. Most of america said 'no,' but didn't instrumentality into relationship that ovulation happens earlier menstruation, which was a 'duh' infinitesimal for astir of us."

—lobster_lemon_lime

8. "Bleaching my underwear with my vaginal mucus. I thought thing was wrong, but I recovered retired it happens with a batch of women."

—clevernugget46

9. "I got a ton of cherry angiomas aft pregnancy, which was truly alarming. I legit thought they mightiness beryllium tegument cancer, but they're wholly mean apparently!"

10. "Skin tags during pregnancy...so galore tegument tags. They each disappeared someway aft I had the baby."

—Anonymous, 37 from Las Vegas 

11. "I got my play successful 4th grade. It wasn’t until sixth people that a person started talking astir a publication astir periods her ma got her. The value lifted disconnected my shoulders was immense. For 2 years, I thought thing was terribly incorrect with me. And successful those 2 years, I went done a batch of toilet paper."

12. "Cramps during ovulation…sometimes I tin virtually consciousness the ovum being released."

13. "Having outie labias (where the interior lips instrumentality retired of the outer lips). I americium 41 years aged and conscionable learned that outie labias are really beauteous common."

"I retrieve erstwhile I was a kid, my ma said thing like, 'It's not expected to look similar that,' and I was humiliated. In each fairness, she astir apt ne'er learned that labias tin beryllium innie oregon outie, either. Spent 95% of my beingness reasoning my assemblage was truthful weird and gross. Turns retired I'm wholly normal, and person conscionable been suffering nether the illusion that I bash not conscionable the modular for cleanable labia."

—Anonymous, 41 from Atlanta, GA 

14. "Farting done my vagina, besides known arsenic queefing, started successful my 50s. I’ve done immoderate net sleuthing, but I haven’t spoken to anyone astir it. Supposedly it’s a thing. It’s conscionable weird!"

—Anonymous, 57 from San Diego 

Which "weird" bodily relation did you yet larn was wholly normal? Tell america successful the comments.

Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.