Period pads in bathroom bin

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My mum gets worried and anxious about all sorts of crazy things, courtesy of her mother. I am much more chilled and so we clash a bit...

I gave birth 2 weeks ago and, of course, I'm still bleeding a bit and wear biggish daily pads (the biggest one of the small ones, you know). My mum said to me that I shouldn't put them in the bin in the bathroom because of my DH and FIL. I should take a separate bag (and put it where???!!!).

Let me be straight with you: my answer was "not happening"!!!

Are you team "my mum" or, like me, you think "though"?? (Btw the boys of the house don't usually empty the bathroom bin)

It’s not the same though as toilet paper can be flushed and pads can’t.

Hygiene is one thing, but linking it to dignity does suggest we should be ashamed

@ImEatingVeryHealthilyOhYes

Hygiene is one thing, but linking it to dignity does suggest we should be ashamed

Does it? I don’t want anyone but me to know about my bodily functions, they’re private. I’m not ashamed of them, I just want to keep them to myself.

Well as long as there’s no judgement towards other women there’s no problem (I mean beyond a mild eeek that most of us probably have at seeing unwrapped used ones )

Yep another cloth person. (and cup.) But if I do use dips then I use a bathroom bin.

isn't it a shame that there are so many delicate little flower menfolk out there being horrified and terrified by all those nasty sanpro. We must protect our sensitive little husbands and fathers.

I'm sure most men couldn't care less about bodily functions. Personally, as a woman, I don't like smelly bins and used sanitary pads smell. I feel just the same about dirty nappies, love babies, have no problem changing them but the nappy goes outside in the bin as I don't want the smell in my kitchen or bathroom.

I think some people might not have a very good sense of smell.

It is gross using a bathroom where there is a smelly bathroom bin

OP what do you do with your babies nappies, do you have a separate nappy bin? Could you put your used pads in there?

For your mum to have mentioned it I’m guessing she’d had to use your bathroom bin (or you hers depending which house you’re in).

Lochia does have a stronger smell than period blood so I think bagging blood-soaked pads securely is a good idea if you’re sharing a communal bathroom bin. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, just politeness when you have guests or stay in someone’s house. I’d feel the same if someone left dirty baby nappies in a communal bin, it’s just not nice for anyone else needing to use the bin or bathroom.

I don't think shame is the issue, I mean if I have smelly things in the kitchen or potentially smelly if left there I get rid of them to the outside bin. Do people who have smelly bins just ignore the smell or try to mask them with all those smelly things you can buy which actually also smell horrible?

It is definitely a manners and politeness issue

Not a feminist issue.

Count yourself lucky. My mil refuses to even have a bin in her bathroom...

So what is the purpose of a bathroom bin? We recycle toilet roll tubes and plastic bottles, I use washable cotton pads for makeup removal etc. I wrap the san pro in its wrapper and put it in the bathroom bin which has a lid. It doesnt smell and its emptied regularly. We recycle a lot so our kitchen bin is only emptied once a week or so, whereas during my period I would empty the bathroom bin more regularly.
It seems odd to carry used san pro though the house to the kitchen bin or outside, although tbh our outside bin is kept by our back gate and no way would I be going out of the house, across our garden multiple times a day. Seems a lot of effort to hide the evidence of a period.....

Team you

Seems a lot of effort to hide the evidence of a period If that is why you are doing it, some of us would do it so that the bathroom doesn't smell.

@babyguffingtonstrikesagain

Count yourself lucky. My mil refuses to even have a bin in her bathroom...

So do I.

You will loose the mystery of a beautiful woman in your husbands eyes 🤣

We have ours in the bathroom bin rolled up and with a lid on

As long as your not framing each used pad and displaying them as artwork on the bathroom walks I can't see a problem! It's your house, your rules and your bloody choice!!

Even that’s not as weird as some things I googled about period blood for the purposes of this thread yesterday

@GhostsUpMePosts

What are these "wrappers on the next one" of which people speak?

You use the outside wrapper of the new pad - assuming they are individually wrapped - to wrap the old one up in a roll. Obviously there comes a point at the end when you cannot do this because you are not going to use a new one.

But then you have the outer plastic packet they came in.

Totally team you.

I'm still uncomfortable with the idea that your guests are going through your bins....that's really creepy..

Wrap up used pads in the wrapper provided and dispose of in a bathroom bin with a lid. The bin is then emptied daily.
No problem!

She’d freak out living in some parts of Spain. We have to put our loo roll on the bin!