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Ok, I've bought one

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FrannyandZooey · 02/08/2006 20:53

So, erm, how do you er, I mean, I sort of managed, but, erm, could you advise, possibly, the best way to erm, hmm, perhaps

Hmm.

Maybe if I am too shy to ask questions about it I am not quite cut out for using one

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Toady · 02/08/2006 21:44

Look I know how to use a vibrator but whats a moon cup do some of you actually use a sink plunger????

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FrannyandZooey · 02/08/2006 21:46

My mouth??? How will flapping that help me, fgs??? Are you all in league trying to injure me internally, you, you, you vipers

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Greensleeves · 02/08/2006 21:47
hairymclary · 02/08/2006 21:47

good god i too was imagining flapping "those" lips and wondering how you do it.

toady go to www.mooncup.co.uk

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FrannyandZooey · 02/08/2006 21:48

Toady, look here

The woman on their website is not flapping any of her lips that I can see. I've read the entire leaflet and it says nothing about any sort of flappage.

It does, however, say:

"It is not recommended to share your Mooncup with another woman."

So I'm sorry, HC, but you'll simply have to get your own.

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Greensleeves · 02/08/2006 21:49

Brings new meaning to the term "bucket fanny"

I think you should change your posting name to BucketFranny

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FrannyandZooey · 02/08/2006 21:53

LOL it also has a lovely tactfully written bit about "If you find type B slips about and leaks, try type A instead"

"If you find type A also slips about, pelvic floor exercises can be very effective."

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PrettyCandles · 02/08/2006 21:55

I've got my legs crossed here. Nothing to do with my mooncup, just if I laugh any harder I really will PMSL!

Don't you remember flapping your lips in labour? Soft lips = soft cervix, or something like that? If you puff out through your mouth and make sure your lips are soft and flappy, then you you're less likely to tense up down there and it's easier to etc etc.

Look, I know what I'm talking about here, OK? I achieved my 15 mins of Mumsnet fame squirming about on the bathroom floor 2 years ago, and it is still embarassingly vivid to me !

NotQuiteCockney · 02/08/2006 21:55

Before I'd actually tried mine, I found DS2 drinking from it. Urgh.

NotQuiteCockney · 02/08/2006 21:56

(I should add, I store it higher up, now)

WideWebWitch · 02/08/2006 21:59

God, it's SMALL isn't it? (looking at that Boots link) - I thought it would be diaphragm sized (old fash contrceptive method for those who don't know, it looked like this and was about the size of a CD, yes, a CD, albeit a springy one). I keep meaning to get one, is there an online place I can buy it?

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FrannyandZooey · 02/08/2006 21:59

"flapping your lips in labour"????

I seem to be inhabiting a different planet to you and your, erm, "lips", PrettyCandles

Bloody hell, I don't know how I ever produced a child with such woeful ignorance of flappy lips. Oh yes, I remember, a doctor came and pulled him out with a great big metal thing.

NQC, are flappy lips on your NCT syllabus?

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WideWebWitch · 02/08/2006 22:00

pmsl at 'it is not recommended to share your mooncup etc' ha ha ha

1Baby1Bump · 02/08/2006 22:00

ugggh.
i knew from the title this would be mooncup!

bye!
x

NotQuiteCockney · 02/08/2006 22:00

I've never taken the NCT antenatal classes. (Makes for a good conversation, when they ask "what does the course cover?" and I say "dunno". Almost as good as the "why should I join the nct?" "don't, they're plonkers" one.)

PrettyCandles · 02/08/2006 22:01

SMALL!?!? Good god, WWW, just wait until you hold one for the first time!

Mind you, if you've experienced the cap, then I guess the mooncup won't be nearly as scarey.

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FrannyandZooey · 02/08/2006 22:02

WWW, cheapest and fastest I could find on the net . They delivered it before I could change my mind

NQC, I am sniggering slightly at your storing yours "higher up".

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PrettyCandles · 02/08/2006 22:02

Maybe only true lentil weavers attain genuine lip-flapperness.

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FrannyandZooey · 02/08/2006 22:03

Yes no doubt you are right

that was pretty flappy

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jampots · 02/08/2006 22:04

Im impressed (i think) that some of you can fit a mooncup, a finger and a thumb up there

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FrannyandZooey · 02/08/2006 22:07

It's because we're flapping, jampots

you have to flap

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ruthydd · 02/08/2006 22:08

I'm having similar problems with the finger nails, but I'm worried I'll be recognised by another MNer in public if I cut short just my thumb and index finger nails.

Toady · 02/08/2006 22:10

right I know what it is now

PrettyCandles · 02/08/2006 22:12

There you go, F&Z - almost there, keep practicising.

Dh used to worry at all the huffing and puffing he was hearing from behind the locked bathroom door. He thought I must be severly constipated!

charliecat · 02/08/2006 22:20

Im sure you have your answer now...but my first thought when I read your post was ssshhhhhhlluurrrppp...so it must just be one of those things you have to get used too