Should I tell him he drank my mooncup water?

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I have namechanged for this. I've been pondering whether to tell him?

This morning I sterilised my mooncup (hasn't been sterilised since last period) in boiling water in a mug. Used the tongs to get it out and took it upstairs but in rush of getting DCs out of the door for school forgot to get rid of the boiling water and put the mug in the dishwasher.

DH has recently taken to drinking hot water plain - he alternates it with coffee as he says it makes his breath better.

He drank the mooncup water and was finishing the mug as he left for work.

There's no point in telling him is there?

Is it wrong my first thought was there must have been some goodness in that water, iron maybe

Has this made it into the Mirror yet?

Wold he doesn't read the Daily Mail and I don't think my thread is hugely outing!

Fair enough if he doesn't read the DM. If he did, however, I would say that someone who alternates coffee and hot water and drank a ready-poured cup of hot water from a Sports Direct cup this morning might twig it was them!

They're not salad tongs Eliza they're like giant tweezers. I'm not sure what they are for actually, I found them in my kitchen drawer. Ever since I started using them for my mooncup though they live in the mug in the utility room.

Dying at repurposed mustard jar.

Have to be honest, I never used Milton when my kids were babies either. Just antibac spray on high chair, to occasionally wipe a toy, etc. Don't like the idea of it in my vagina but I'll look into it.

The mooncup had been washed. I'm sure the man who is on very familiar and affectionate terms with her vagina is not going to throw up or have a heart attack when he realizes he may have come into contact with it an infinitesimal amount more.

Is this thread full of bored 13 year old boys?

Hee hee hee hee hee hee.
Wonderful.
Don't tell him but have a silent chuckle to yourself occasionally.

It’s gross AND funny. Sadly you are going to take this with you to your grave.

Why do you have to sterilise a mooncup? Can't you just give it a wash with soap, it doesn't have to be sterile does it?

Mooncup water sounds like it would give you special powers if you drank it or something!

Wold

That's true. I banished that mug to the shit cupboard years ago (before my mooncup days) so it just didn't occur to me he'd think it was a drink I made for him?! We have naice mugs! He didn't question it this morning. He was hungover after a work do - maybe he didn't notice?!

I’m not sure why everyone is sterilising their mooncups anyway. Tampons are not sterile. Neither are any of the other things normally put into a vagina. They just need to cleaned well in soapy water and that will be perfectly fine. What possible difference can it make sterilising something once a month anyway? Why does it need to be cleaner the first time you pop it in that month than the next time? Makes no sense at all. Anyway I never bothered to sterilise mine after the first time and have had no problems as a result.

I would assume your husband isn’t horrified by your vagina and so isn’t going to be that traumatised. I’d be entirely unbothered if it had been my wife. Always assuming it had been washed thoroughly beforehand because old blood leftover from a previous period would be pretty manky.

Never tell him.

I soak mine in Milton.
However I rinse it in hot water before using it again.

isseecabbages the mooncup is about the size of an egg cup, it was in a big mug

Vandree I have to admit this crossed my mind

vegemite I'll let you know if he comes home resembling Thor

I’m not sure why everyone is sterilising their mooncups anyway. Tampons are not sterile. Neither are any of the other things normally put into a vagina.

Exactly! I presume people don't make their partners dunk their todgers into boiling water before sex?

Please don't Milton your mooncup op! I presume you allow an unsterilised penis into your vag occasionally, so a boiled-clean mooncup should cause absolutely no issues at all. In fact I only boil mine to stop any potential smell developing; it's more thorough than soap....

newname

Not sure really I do it at the beginning of my period rather than at the end, I guess I think it might grow bacteria whilst stored?! It's definitely a mixed bag, I've got friends who just swizzle theirs and some who sterilise them several times throughout their period.

All these people so squicked out by mooncups - I sometimes keep a mug specially for it too - not to clean it, but to tip the blood into. Mixed with a bit of water it makes my pot plants grow wonderfully

Never tell!!!!

Houston

Ewww!

I'd save that bit of info to use in an argument 😂

I wouldn't tell him. I really wouldn't.

this is fucking gross.

the fact you put it in a mug you'll let other family members drink out of.

Tell him because lots of men are super weird about period blood, tell him he drank it, came to no harm and now can get his red wings...

I wonder how many of those pp celebrating their bodily functions and questioning why you should sterilise it in the first place ...

I wonder if they would drink mooncup water for their tea breaks today and report back.

Seems like a power drink to them.

Yuck

I accidentally put some poo in my mouth (and not as a small child either!) and I'm still alive.

Oh and mooncups don't really need sterilising, I used to boil mine in the beginning but after a few months stopped bothering, 15 years later it's stained but fine. Post menopause now before anyone dares to tell me anything about it being 'dirty' pffft.