Period and Possible Odd Bleeding? Please Help!

I started my period this morning. Or at least I think I did. I was supposed to start today according to my BC pill packet. I didn't have blood in my underwear, but when I wiped there was a good bit of bright red blood. So I put a tampon in and then later on I showered and when I took the tampon out, the blood that was on it was brown and there wasn't very much. I put a pad on so that I could bleed and be able to see it. That was around noon and there still isn't any blood on my pad. Is this normal for the first day? I usually only wear tampons so maybe I just never noticed. Please help!

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