How do you bath when you are on your period?

[isitjustifyable]

My family home had a separate shower unit, and my whole life I used that. I moved out a few years ago and we put a shower unit in because I hate baths.

My shower has broke, and the time has come 🤣

Is there a method? I bleed so heavily there seems no logical way of doing this. (There is no shower attachment in the bath)

Just after any obvious (or not so obvious) advice please!

[quote isitjustifyable]@SillyMoomin maybe I need to try a mooncup. Too heavy for tampons and sanitary towels 😩
Thanks for the advice [/quote]
I would think that if your flow is too heavy for tampons and pads then that’s problematically heavy.
Have you looked into using ibuprofen to lessen it? Can do by 30-40% I’ve read.
Other medication can help too.

Maybe start on the Floradix for iron too.

@lemonsquashie

Even if you have heavy periods, you only lose about 80ml of blood. It's unlikely all 80ml will flood out of your body during the 20 mins or so you spend bathing.

That's an average and I know I lose more than that.

@lemonsquashie

Even if you have heavy periods, you only lose about 80ml of blood. It's unlikely all 80ml will flood out of your body during the 20 mins or so you spend bathing.

See my earlier post about having a retroverted uterus - that is (sadly) exactly what happens.

(It was years before I found this out - I couldn't work out why I'd go hours with barely any flow then... Whoosh.)

I’m a heavy bleeder and I love baths, I tend to prefer bubble baths so would very rarely notice if I was bleeding, but I think because of the wonderful wet women’s bodies have been designed it’s rare to flow out into water anyway so it really is something you shouldn’t even worry about !

I think it’s a real shame that we have become so disconnected from our own bodies and nature that some of you think of period blood as being dirty.