to think Mooncups???!!!! WTF?????

[SpookyBearistheSpookyBear]

well, am I?

i've used mine swimming (or at least piddling about in a wimming pool with dd) and it was fine. try it, habs, you'll like it.

reminds me of all those mahogany-tanned women who look like their face has been pulled back with a bulldog clip insisting that the key to a successful mawwiage is separate bedrooms, and never let your husband see you without your make-up on, dahhling.

Sorry to be thick but what is a Mooncup?

I dunno - I could go for separate bedrooms

The rest is pants, though.

I use mine swimming and its fine same as on dry land!

Thanks - but Aitch- my eyes! Is that really your Halloween name?

And I'm sure that grown-ups aren't allowed to piddle in swimming pools...

I didn't know, before I started bfing, that it stopped your periods. So I got rid of my old mooncup and bought the next size up (for after you give birth) and still haven't had chance to use it yet.

Actually feel a bit disappointed about that!

One of the things I really love about Mooncups is that you can wear them 'in anticipation' of your period, so you don't run the risk of getting caught out. You can't do that with a tampon.

(I do realise that may sound slightly bizarre, btw, but 'tis true...)

ach, it's the council one, habbibu...

and yes, it is my hallowe'en name. a bit more frightening than AlfredAitchcock, n'est-ce pas?

Oh gawd, this has turned into such a STOOPID 24hr long argument.

I've not been trying to imply that using a moon cup would end your relationship.

Just that I can't imagine sterilizing one in a pan in my kitchen.

I had genuinely thought these were used by druids etc., yet perusing MN it seems they're commonplace.

My AF is not heavy or bothersome so perhaps that's why I've never come across them before in RL.

have just read this entire thread!!! am laughing out loud. dp and dd keep asking what i am laughing at!!!

might just try one myself!!

Oh spooky -b I've just had a lovely mental image of all these robed figures sterlising their mooncups as the sun rises over Stonehenge. (To clarify - they appear to have some sort of portable Baby Belling and enamel saucepans).

this is the first time ive even heard of a mooncup!

Don't tell DP, crkm... he'll leave you!!!

spookie, be fair, your reasons for not using one are stoopid. and i bet you flush your tampies... tut tut. but i quite understand if you wish to retire from this discussion as it's not taken the turn you anticipated. they are good, they aren't any messier than tampons and they won't wreck your feminine mystique.

hm...whilst I can't personally imagine to use them...I think YABU to thik wtf...because just ebcause it isn't for you doesn't mean they are not good and the way to go for others...

I've just read this whole thread from start to finish and I'm almost convinced. I find tampons abhorrent since having babies, snaitary towels are nasty smelly horrible things, I hate the smelly bin...which leads me on to the deciding question for me.

I usually forget to empty the bathroom bin after my AF and it's not it starts whiffing that I remember

How do I know I won't do that with my mooncup. How safe is it if you forget? how long can it be up there?

I'm sooo forgetful, this is a real concern for me!

I love mine! Since using it, my period's become lighter and more manageable.

My husband knows I use one. So what? Are people really married to people who are that squeamish?!

WTF, what a boring sex life you must have!

He's seen my give birth twice, he has no qualms about a friggin' mooncup.

They rock.

Daisy - I think you would remember it was there the next time you did a poo

Spooky - you know you want one really

Expat, "lighter and more manageable" - you sound like a shampoo advert!

(my periods aren't heavy or bothersome, btw - but using a Mooncup is fab, anyway)

Hm, everyone saying fine to go swimming ... mine, erm, filled up with water when I went swimming. Wrong position? Or seriously increase my pelvic floor exercises?