would your teen dd use a mooncup?

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Following on from a thread about scented tampons (bleurgh!!),I have thought about getting dd a mooncup.Do you think the smaller size one would be too big for a 14yr old virgin to use?
Do you think it's too different from the norm for a teen to consider?

Hmmmmmmmmm - some very interesting points raised here. As my mother was of the you-can't-use-tampax-until-you-are-married school, she certainly wouldn't have entertained the thought of her teenage daughters using a Mooncup!

It depends on the 14 year old's view, but certainly I will tell my dd about them when the time comes, and leave the choice of sanitary protection up to her.

Having given a Mooncup a thorough testing over the past 6 months, this is what I have discovered:- it is less hassle when you get used to it; it has saved me an absolute fortune as I have extremely heavy periods and when the unpredictablity of flow etc is a regular concern, it is much easier to be using a Mooncup (previously I was carrying around several different absorbencies of tampon, plus pads, and needed to use both for most of my periods.) It really doesn't matter if your flow becomes quite light, because whereas tampons can be tricky to remove due to uncomfortable dryness, that doesn't happen with a Mooncup. If you get painful cramps etc, it has been noted by others on a site discussion I read that using a Mooncup helps lessen the pain - no idea why that is, but it seems to be the case for me too.

If I they had been around when I was 14 and I had known all this - I would have saved up for one and defied my mother!!

I had bad period pains and the Mooncup REALLY helped with that. It's been suggested that it's to do with the fact that tampons may irritate the cervix. That's the main reason that I use a Mooncup.

You may already know this - but Boots have a 3 for 2 offer on sanitary products atm and that includes Mooncups - so find two others and share the cost if you are put off by stumping up £19.99

my dd thinks the idea of a moon cup is gross hopefully she will change her mind as there are 4 of us girls in the house so that could be expensive

just asked dd3 and she said no way

I found that with tampons they dried me out soooo much and that caused more period pain than anything else. I'd also have to change them fairly frequently and if I forgot they'd leak everywhere.

With a mooncup one of the biggest adjustments to make was feeling normal vaginal moisture during a period (without the blood bit, obviously). Dread to think what the tampons were doing if they were drying me out that much previously that normal moisture felt weird. I had far less period pains with the mooncup than tampons - again, I suspect the drying out is a factor in that.

I also found I had to change a mooncup far less. Normal tampons you should change at least every 4 hours (8 hours overnight, obviously) regardless of flow due to risks of toxic shock. Mooncup I could get away with changing every 6 hours on the first day, every 8 on the second and 3rd and remaining I just changed twice daily. No fuss, no muss. AND no worries about working out how to dispose the damn thing at a friends house (don't want to wrap it up and leave it in their bathroom bin, don't want to flush it in case it doesn't wash down first time and have to end up wedging toilet paper on top to try and push it down second go...)

Though saying all that - would I have been able to cope with one at the age of 14? Hmm. Don't know. Would have liked to have known about it as an option though I think.

Surely there would be very few occasions that you had need to empty and wash the mooncup whilst out and about?

AvaLou: you're right - reckon it might be an issue 1 day of every month if that (depending on flow).

Avalou - depends entirely on how heavy the flow is. But it has been MUCH easier to deal with out and about than I anticipated. Thought initially that I needed to wash it under running water each time I emptied it - but it isn't. Your Mooncup can just be emptied down the loo, wiped out with loo paper and reinserted. Wash it next time there is a suitable opportunity. Agree with GeorginaA about other people's homes! I used to carry about pads, tampons and those little pop-in bags - which means a handbag goes everywhere you do!! (Ahem - visiting in someone's house, and you say 'back in a minute.....' and off you go, carrying your handbag like it isn't safe left out of your sight!! LOL)