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My daughter and her mooncup

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FloralBunting · 21/09/2018 14:46

My eldest has just got a menstrual cup. I am receiving hourly text updates about how it's going, in addition to regular run downs when she's at home.

She came in my bedroom and started dancing about saying what a weird sensation it was having something up there, and this morning announced that taking it out was a bit like giving birth. She thinks it's a bit weird to be having 'a rummage around' to get it out, but it's all a rather exciting adventure.

I don't use one, and in all honesty I'm not really sure she's selling the idea, but I've just had the sixth text today saying "My vagina is a bloody miracle vice. How's it keeping it in so well?" And I can't stop laughing.

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Jeippinghmip · 21/09/2018 15:46

Great thread OP. Reported 😂😂😂

florenceheadache · 21/09/2018 15:51

Wait! In a few days you will have the joy of seeing it washed and drying out on your sunny window sill....

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FloralBunting · 21/09/2018 15:54

Well, quite. It's not like discussion about menstrual cups and articulate slightly daft children and oversharing never happens on MN. I learned about mooncups on here in the first place years ago.

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Fireba11 · 21/09/2018 15:55

I think they're great but have never been that happy about mine Grin as PPs have said, I think it's lovely you have such an open, positive relationship.

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FloralBunting · 21/09/2018 15:55

florenceheadache I'll be fine with it, but I do wonder what the males in the house will make of it!

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florenceheadache · 21/09/2018 16:22

Just make sure it doesn’t find it’s way into the toy or craft box 😉

Esme3 · 21/09/2018 16:29

saying what a weird sensation it was having something up there, and this morning announced that taking it out was a bit like giving birth.

Hmm
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FloralBunting · 21/09/2018 16:33

Esme3, are we still troll hunting? She said a ridiculous thing. It was shared in the spirit of 'Isn't it daft what 17yo kids come out with?'

DD and I are glad some of you found it amusing.

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awesmum · 21/09/2018 16:37

Made me smile Grin

AlwaysTryingToHelp · 21/09/2018 16:38

OP I am 24 and have just recently got one of these, this sounds like the exact conversation I had with my mom!! They are incredible, I try and recommended them to everyone I can, I can honestly say they have made my life so much easier!!

legocardsagain · 21/09/2018 16:48

I love my mooncup. And yes they are bloody marvellous. It took me way too long to try one, so good on her that she has given it a go.

I now donate my cost savings to buy san pro for schools and I regularly give san pro to the food bank.

Perhaps you'd like to contribute? Grin please report my post if this is too cheeky.

www.redboxproject.org

legocardsagain · 21/09/2018 16:52

Just a cleaning tip: get her a beaker (not to be confused with a penis beaker) and some Milton.

She can then cold water sterilise it at the end of her cycle. I always do another soak (only takes 15 mins) at the start of my next cycle too.

Fontofnoknowledge · 21/09/2018 16:54

Floralbunting ignore the troll hunters . I have 2 dds . 22 &16 this is EXACTLY the sort of text messaging and conversation they would have with me . Only the eldest would probably also send pictures of her mooncup dressed in various ridiculous outfits. !

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FloralBunting · 21/09/2018 16:55

Thanks legocardsagain, that's a good tip. And totally seconding the recommendation to other readers to go to that link and donate. A very worthy cause.

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JenBarber · 21/09/2018 17:30

I miss Ye Olde Poo Trolls.

DollyWilde · 21/09/2018 17:34

sparklingbrook and jane if it’s any consolation my MIL (only child is my husband) has a very oversharing DIL Wink Obviously sex chat is off the table but we spend farrrr too much time getting tipsy and nattering about girly shite. DH tends to leave us to it!

OP I’m glad your daughter is getting on so well with it. Reminds me I must replace mine after I tried to change it in the toilets at the train station and it slipped out of my hand and made a run for it... luckily station loo was empty but I decided that was a bridge too far for disinfectant Confused

Branleuse · 21/09/2018 17:36

Glad she likes her mooncup. Theyre great

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FloralBunting · 21/09/2018 17:42

Blimey DollyWilde, that's... alarming.

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DollyWilde · 21/09/2018 17:43

Sharing with the MIL or the mooncup? To establish, it escaped from my hand... otherwise I’d be going up a size Confused

DollyWilde · 21/09/2018 17:45

Oh I did say that Grin

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FloralBunting · 21/09/2018 17:50

Grin DollyWilde, it was the idea of the mooncup sprouting legs and making a dash for it.

Although, tbh, the thought of girly oversharing with my MIL is a pretty weird thought, so now I come to think of it I'm alarmed by that too!!

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mineofuselessinformation · 21/09/2018 17:51

Only on Mumsnet would people look askance at something in RL they'd probably join in talking about on here themselves....Hmm
It sounds like you have a dd who really trusts you op, and that you are both able to have a laugh about life.

overagain · 21/09/2018 17:57

I did the same with my husband when I got one. You've got to share!

DollyWilde · 21/09/2018 18:04

Fair point floral, a mooncup with legs is not something I feel terribly comfortable with either Grin

Verbena87 · 21/09/2018 18:05

I’m gutted that my massive-baby-related prolapse dislodges mine, so am now stuck with pads instead. They are a game-changer if you’re still in the magical vice vagina stage of life (or indeed just the non-collapsed vagina stage with a cervix that respects your boundaries).

And I definitely don’t think it’s a weird conversation to have - my poor mum got the full report on my birth injuries. Surely it’s pretty normal?!