to be the best mother in the world. i have bought my daughter a............

[AtYourCervix]

Mooncup.

She will thank me for it.

Eventually.

I am excellent am i not?

I presume posters who are worried about putting a Mooncup in, dont put ANYTHING else in..... Ahem

Well, exactly iknow!

Are they a bit like those silicone cup things for poaching eggs?

They're squishy, they fold and just pop in. Took me about 2 cycles to get the hang of it. I never ever leak or flood with it despite having done so many times before I started using one. The suction bit is easy, just pinch the bottom or press one side of it in and you pop it out
The best recommendation I can give is some days I empty in the am and PM and that's it. And I forget its my period

Don't see the problem; don't use one myself but if you've bought her different towels, tampons etc. to see which she prefers she can decide herself. Sure she'll ask if she has questions and I assume it comes with instructions.

I know lots of girls at school who used tampons from quite a young age as they were swimmers etc. Don't see what age has to do with it much (size wise) except maybe her friends don't use them maybe.

I thought you were going to say a pony.

1. I am going to buy a mooncup. They sound ace.

1. I am and at the two foster family stories. I dearly hope it's not like that now.

You'd have to fold a pony a fair few times to fit it up your fanjo, schoolgovernor :D

I took a very long time to get to grips with my mooncup, but I still think they are fab especially now that always ultra seem to scented! Yuck. Oh and for all of you sending your sanpro to landfill - that is disgusting!

I was gardening recently and was pretty horrified when I found a used sanitary towel in my flower bed (that is not a euphemism) - someone obviously had not tied their rubbish up well that day.

Where do people find out about sponges and stuff?
I'm wondering what other fanjo accessories I know nothing about.

MN isla :)

Actually, wonder if there should be a separate section.... 'Fanjo accessories'

I've just looked at the photos on google. There's one with a mooncup next to a tampon. It's huge! How can you possibly insert that? I struggle with tampons, and those are much smaller.

Primrose, you may have noticed that when you remove the tampon it is considerably bigger, but you don't wonder how on earth you got that back out do you?

Actually OP, I've been wondering whether to get dd (also 17) a mooncup just so it's there if she wants to try it. When I think back to all the years when periods were dreaded for their embarrassment potential (leakage/tampons falling out of bags etc) I think I'd be doing her the most enormous favour.
Dd is still quite small for her age and until recently was still wearing the soft 'training bras' which were quite babyish in style. Every time I asked her if she wanted any new ones or pointed out pretty ones when shopping she would say no (I wouldn't have wanted her walking around with everything hanging out like some of the girls but equally I thought she might have been leaving herself open to teasing and she finds it hard to make friends anyway). Then a friend (sort of unofficial auntie) bought her some lovely grown-up bras for her birthday. When she first opened them she said she wouldn't wear them but after a while they appeared in the wash and now she doesn't wear anything else .
I can't help thinking she would be the same about mooncup use, if she got curious and tried it she would be converted, but she wouldn't go and buy one herself. Even if she didn't try it for a couple of years the thought would have been planted. I didn't even know they existed until a few years ago, I wish someone had told me sooner!

I thought you were going to say 'pony'. I was about to be well impressed.

I love my moon cup, mainly coz I swear its the reason I got pregnant.

I've never used it as a sanitary product, might give it a go when I stop BF-ing and get my periods back.

Seldom has an OP's username been more apt

Sparklekitty, how do you think it helped you get pregnant?

Frankly I wish atyourcervix was my mother. I will never forget coming downstairs the day after I got my first period and my mother doing a very english soprano 'ooooooooh bodyforrrmmmm, bodyformed for youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu'.

Nicely done OP.

Besides, she could always regift it

Sorry to lower the tone, but they are only 50mm in length... I have never met a man with a penis smaller than that... And that goes in fine... I'm very confused and thinking very disturbing things about some of your husbands.

Sorry :-(

Same as I have bought 4000 brands of towel and tampon so they can work out what suits best.

This was actually me, buying them all, trying them all to find something comfortable that did not end up giving me thrush. Then I read about mooncups on MN, went and bought one the next pay day. I am four months post it having paid for itself in savings on other sanitary protection and would never go back. Neither would DP, who does most of the shopping.

I used to dread periods, even more dread the expense if it happened at the wrong time of the month, the week before pay day, but now I do not care. They hurt less, I don't get thrush any more and I even forget it is there.

And what keralo said... My step mum is having tests for hepatitis because her livers enlarged and she worked emptying sani bins and she said you'd get blood on you so the doctors are concerned about that.

sparklekitty, I cannot be the only one imagining your OH with a 'readers wives' a mooncup and you putting the result up your fanjo!! Please explain!!

I cannot contemplate inserting a funnel into my fanjo

Having looked at the pictures I am even more off the idea

And what happens if your cup runneth over?

It's impossible to 'run over' cat, it stays in via suction so there is literally nowhere for it to run over :)

Just curious at all the people aghast at the idea, do you use tampons? Have sex? Use vibrators/dildos? Ever had a kid? We put all sorts up our fanjos, they're pretty robust. I reckon they can handle a small bit of silicone

They do runneth over if very full. I have partic heavy first 2 days and I have to get up in the night and break from morning surgery to empty it. But this is a MASSIVE improvement on the running to the sodding toilet every 45mins to change my super plus plus tampon. Mooncup changed my life

I imagine most women don't lose the reservoirs of blood that I lose every month and so would be fine gin