Right, you lot, you bleed from your fanjos roughly once a month...

[hunkermunker]

Yet somehow a mooncup is gross to some of you?

Why?

A mooncup is a gross idea principally because the loos at work are communal, in that there are 3 closeted stalls and one sink, and I can't imagine changing and washing a mooncup in that environment and/or walking out of a stall with smeared menstrual blood on my fingers! The actual idea of a mooncup isn't the problem to me, it's the practicality of it!

Take a baby wipe into the loo with you and wipe your hands on that?

i might try one, why not really

Doesn't get all the blood off your hands though, and I've already had one accident involving a white t-shirt to make me very wary of such said incidents.

Honestly, are they any good? I use tampons and I'd be pushed to change from them, though I could be convinced. How do you sterilise it? Can you do it in the microwave like a baby's bottle?

Honestly, you don't have to change it that frequently. In my heaviest early days (1 day, maybe 2 at most) I needed to change it every 5-6 hours. After that every 8 hours or so was more than sufficient.

Sterilize by boiling in water in a saucepan on the stove (after giving it a good wash first, of course ) - do you like your mooncups soft or hard boiled?

As my mum has just said, would you all revert back to colostomy bags and catheters just cause its saves you going to the loo as well.
Im sorry but good on all you good guys out there that do this. I just cant see me with a sink plunger in my fanjo.

Usually, with things that go down there I'd say the harder the better, but that would be lowering the tone!

... however I do have a bigger problem with tartan/burberry reusable towels and steeping them overnight and putting the deposits in your flowerbeds. Thats just wrong!!!!

is it possible to lower the tone of a mooncup thread?

Burberry reusable towels?

Now that's gross!

The burberry, not the reusable towels, you understand...

Chavtastic reusable sanitary products? How...peculiar!

Chavtastic reusable sanitary products? How...peculiar!

Twice...apparently...!

I find myself curiously coming round to the whole mooncup idea, I have to say.

i really want one but am pg and then my periods saeem to take ages to come back once I've stopped bf so I will get one but i'll be about 1 and 1/2 till I do lol

I'm tempted to wean DS2 just so I can have one

Not really.

Reusable towels are great .

Although haven't got a burberry one yet .

fanjo! Ah hinker. Your command of the English language never fails to astound me! lol

the word 'fango' is still really making me laugh! i can play the banjo with my fango

I cant use one

The thought makes my stomach physically turn over

Ew at the weeing on it.

The rest though - keep babywipes with you to wipe fingers/mooncup in public toilets (although I only need to change about every 8 hours with it in, so the public toilet issue really doesn't come up all that often for me), then wash hands normally in sink. If you are out and a non-work toilet - try and use the disabled and you get a sink too (don't you all shock horror gasp at me at using a disabled toilet either).

Short people joining you in the toilet - so far not happened... although we do have a lock on our toilet Psycho . She did join me when I was using the sponges though, and no issues other than the normal "Mummy bleedin "

Errr... what else?

Oh, shoving a plunger up there - but a bit of bleached cotton wool to dry you out is fine?!?!

Those with heavy periods - mine became lighter and shorter with the cup, and a lot of people say the same - no idea why.

i've been using a mooncup for 2 months now and it's absolutely fine. i've been at work in a 2-cubicle toilet with one and it's never been a problem. as someone else said either use babywipes or just get yourself to sink quickly and wash hands. what's the problem?

bleurgh

fanjos

have I spread it to mumsnet

i LOVE my moon cup... thouigh inly tried it once so far...

all thsi rinsing in your urine.... whats that about?

NEVER herd of anyone whose done that and it says NOTHING about it in instruction boook.

Urine is only sterile Until it touches the air anyway....

the instructions say if no tap wipe with toliet paper (which is in most loos) reinsert and then u can give it a beter wash next time.... NO mention of weeing in / on it at all

IMO mooncups are much less messy and hassel than tampons / towels and more comfortable too.

Wouldnt go back EVER