Is it rough to leave period stairned sheets?

[MoonBaby1]

I sleep with my 2ur old and my dh sleeps in a separate room for now I have heavy periods which means despite wearing maxi pads and tampons combined I’ll always have a heavy night. I leave changing the sheets till my period has finished. Is this skany or ok?

I find a towel handy and it can be normal
As we age to bleed heavier.
A good laundry powder eradicates blood stains sheets
Who wants to change bedding daily when we are usually at our most tired during a period.
Germ a phobia is unreal

Oh no that's really grim! Plus it would smell wouldn't it?! Why don't you put down a big towel or blanket you can just shove straight in the wash?

I change the sheets. I don't want my lo rolling about on my period stains. Tbh I don't really want to be rolling about on my period stains either. Like you I sleep with my 2.5 year old and DH sleeps in spare room. I usually lay a towel underneath me from about my waist down when I have my period and remove it in the morning. If it's stained it gets replaced , if it's not then I reuse it.

You need to treat the stains straight away. I think you should sleep on a old towel

Before I started bc to stop my horrendous periods I slept on a dedicated 'period towel'. Just an old hand towel. I was washed a dried daily when I was on and it saved my sheets and mattress. It was a pretty grim looking towel because I could never get all of the stains out but it was clean.

I couldn't sleep in a bed full of dried blood. A dot or two maybe for a night if I really couldn't be bothered to change sheets.

I would absolutely never expect anyone else to sleep in a bed stained with someone else's blood, least of all a child.

If it was just you in the bed it’s your personal preference, if it was you and your other half and he didn’t mind then fine if your other half don’t like it then you should respect that... as you have a toddler in with you I’m if the opinion it’s proper unsanitary especially as they’re all over the bed at that age usually!. your litlun is too young express an opinion (if they were older would likely see this as normal behaviour if you’re showing them as such) has your other half expressed how he feels about it?
I know it’s a pain to change the sheets and nobody wants to sod about doing that I know it sounds a weird suggestion but if you don’t want to faff with sheets or change sleeping arrangements if you’re that heavy why don’t you wear incontinence knickers along with the pad and tampon- I think it’d make a huge difference- you definitely won’t need to worry about sheets or sleeping arrangements if you wear those. And if you do decide to try that don’t go for the ‘light’ ones go straight in with the ‘medium’ ones

Disgusting 🤢

It smells, bacteria will grow, you and your child will smell. Lots of women can't smell it themselves but other people will smell you. Not right putting a child in that situation.

That is beyond skanky. That is "my kids will never play with hers as I dont want them in that house." level of grim. As a society, have we not evolved beyond lying in our own waste?

Why don't you sleep in the spare room when you have your period to save your toddler having to sleep in it?

In two or three years before menopause started I used to flood every month. I always slept with a disposable pad that are used for children (or adults) who wet the bed. I changed it each morning. Occasionally I put two of these disposable pads down if I was very heavy.

I could not sleep in sheets with blood on them or expect my dh to, and NEVER put a small child in a bed with blood on.

I have the same - maxi pads us maxi tampon and still leaks even after an hr!!!

I ended up buying a cup, it turned up and I wasnt impressed - huge, felt tough. Didn't want to try it out at all. Then next month comes round and the leaking everywhere again and I think stuff it, can't be worse than this... Well by crikey - love it!! Zero leaks, don't need pads, don't go through 3 pairs of pants a day, no soaked sheets!!! I gave all my usual supplies away because I'm never using anything else!! And despite what I thought - super comfortable! They hold a lot too. Can go all night without a spot lost which no other product has managed for me in 30 years!!

Seriously - try it! Then no need to worry about the sheets.

I haven't rtft but I couldn't leave it especially with a kid in the bed too. I'd probably put a puppy pad down

You can buy period pants that you could use along side your normal period products. You could also buy puppy pads and use 1 off those under you that will save the sheet and be able to bin the next morning.

OP, try a menstrual cup. They contain the blood instead of absorbing it and can hold three times more than a tampon. They also have gradation marks on the inside to make it easier to record how much you are bleeding.

Maybe one day we'll evolve to the point where doctors take concerns of women over heavy periods seriously.