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 would just pop the bottom sheet in the washing machine (and the matress protector if the blood had gone through). They dry pretty quickly. I don’t have a tumble dryer so it’s garden line in good weather, indoors when it’s cold and/or wet.

Lots of good ideas re disposable pads, period pants etc, but also buying a few cheap, dark coloured sheets from Asda or somewhere and changing every day then boil washing at the end. It's way less grim that sleeping on it for days. I know you say it doesn't smell but it's a body fluid, it will smell when left. It's possible you're nose blind to it. I couldn't lie in it each night or let my child

My DP gets horrendous periods like this (she's already on tranaxemic acid but it doesn't help), and tbh my only concern is that she's in pain and feels like shit. Bit of blood on the sheet doesn't hurt.

I couldn’t do this, I’ve changed it in the middle of the night before. Not sure why anyone would want to sleep in their own blood.

A couple of drops won't hurt OP.
I'd just like to say that I found tena lady knickers worn overnight are a godsend.
Maybe you and others in your position could try those rather than changing during the night or staining the sheets.

The weather is getting hotter now and with the windows open fresh blood will attract a huge amount of flies. Sorry but if I became aware that a child was regularly sleeping in a blood stained bed I'd report as neglect.

I couldn't bear to leave bloody sheets. It's vile to me. Have you thought of period pants as well as the pads? They do a night pants which might solve your problem.

That’s a really large patch...surely it goes crusty? I doubt it’s odourless and it’s definitely not sanitary. If it was just you, or an unbothered partner, then it’s up to y’all to be as gross as you want.

I think with a child in the bed you have a responsibility to provide your child with a clean and hygienic place to sleep. Plenty of advice given for making it easier to keep clean sheets. Although, if you are able bodied, I don’t think it’s terribly hard to change a bottom sheet daily. I am sorry you’re bleeding this much, it sounds like an ordeal.

I'd leave it. Chuck a towel down and sort it out when the period's finished.

If your periods are that heavy then you're going to be tired, nobody else is sleeping there besides a 2 year old who doesn't sleep that low and was covered in your bodily fluids at some point anyway when they were born.

Stains won't set, chuck some oxy bleach in on a cold wash, check the stain is gone and then wash as normal.

Grim. Clean your sheets. This isn't the Medieval era.

Nah, I’d leave it until after period ends. There is nothing dirty about period blood.

I’m definitely at the slatternly end of the scale for bedsheets but would draw the line at sleeping in a huge patch of blood.

I used to have very heavy periods but used a mooncup, night time pad and period pants if needed. You could put another pad at the front or back of your pants going across ways. Tranexemic acid only helped slightly but getting the Mirena has made a huge difference. Should have got it ages ago.

Not sure why anyone would want to sleep in their own blood.

Well you are anyway, so I don't see what difference it really makes from that point of view.

I have the mirena now, but before that I had awful periods with random flooding and I can't use tampons, could never get the hang of a mooncup, can't use period pants. It was a nightmare.

I couldn't leave it.

If you don't want to put the sheet in the washing machine at least run some cold water and soap over it and then let it dry.
It's probably 2 minutes work, hang it outside to dry when it's sunny, problem solved.

To leave it is just grim.

Run cold water and soap over the stain only I mean, not the whole sheet obviously.

@Gammeldragz which brand of reusable do you use? Have looked several times but never ordered any as I don't know if they are up to much!!

I would change sheets, Ibuprofen can reduce bleeding by 30%, also you can get meds from chemist to reduce bleeding, over the counter.

Buy Tena super absorbent pull ups, if they can cope with me losing a full bladder, they will cope with anything.

I’ve ruined my bed sheets!

I excitedly got some new ones but my hysterectomy has been postponed, so now I just used the stained ones (have ruined 2 sets) when I’m bleeding and have some of those dry nights which I put under the sheet and just wash and change the sheets every couple of days and the dry nights daily. This works best for me.

Im on tablets from the doctors and still bleeding through at night and have to change my pads at least every 3 hours, before the tablets it’s once every hour. I still flood at night. I also have to take iron as I’m anaemic.

Can’t wait to have my bits ripped out!

Given how quickly OP left her own thread I’m slightly suspicious now for the motives for posting. But hopefully the thread helps others.

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I left the thread because 1) two screen obsessed children in lockdown leave me lith little time on my own phone and 2) I can only take being called a skank in good grace for so long!

I happily sleep in blood stained sheets until the end of my period. Lol at the idea of flies laying eggs in it.

I second the incontinent pants idea. I have a pair and wear them over my pants every night (plus two night time towels). I don’t wash those either until the end of my period - haha!

Sympathies to everyone who has heavy periods, it really is rotten. I used towels under the sheet and on top of the sheet. It was miserable. Soak sheets in cold water, wash and they will dry in no time in this weather. I couldn’t sleep in bloody sheets.

I am another tena pants for very heavy periods discoverer.... it has indeed been revolutionary. I like the always ones best. You could even use them over your usual protection as an extra line of defence, but I use them as they are.

@MoonBaby1 good reasons! Ignore the people calling you skanks, they probably eat their own bogies or something.