my 12yr old has "started"

onlyroz

It was only a suggestion. I know that I wish I'd found out about them about 10 years earlier...

shellsuit

onlyroz wrote: »

You don't need to do this every time. A wipe with toilet paper is sufficient during the day. It really is no messier than having to wrap up a dirty tampon.

Maybe not everytime, but what if some of those times were when she was at school?

They're fine for women who have no hang ups about their bits and periods, but to recommend one for a 12 yo girl who has just started her periods is just silly.

And also, tampons absorb the liquid, a mooncup doesn't so it would be far messier.

pulliptears

onlyroz wrote: »

It was only a suggestion. I know that I wish I'd found out about them about 10 years earlier...

And I think they are a great thing as girls get older, but when they first come on its all a bit of a whirl. Girls have to get used to tampax/changing pads/worrying about leaking etc etc Its too much too soon for a body thats constantly changing.

onlyroz

shellsuit wrote: »

And also, tampons absorb the liquid, a mooncup doesn't so it would be far messier.

Have you ever used one?

shellsuit

onlyroz wrote: »

Have you ever used one?

I don't need to have used one to know they don't absorb liquid, as if they did, you wouldn't be able to reuse them, which is the whole point of them.

ALIBOBSY

I had very heavy periods right from the start, in fact mine have got lighter since having kids and getting older.

I started at 10/11 and I actually developed anemia at one point when I bleed pretty much constantly for about 7 wks during the first year of my periods. So I can sympathise. I agree about trying different products and keep the dialogue open.

My DD1 is nearly 8 and she has already asked a few questions in this area partly as she has some slightly older friends and partly due to watching me being pregnant etc twice after her lol.

Keep things open and honest and things should be fine, it is a sort of right of passage for most of us and a sort of girly bonding thing really.

ali x

onlyroz

shellsuit wrote: »

I don't need to have used one to know they don't absorb liquid, as if they did, you wouldn't be able to reuse them, which is the whole point of them.

You stated as a fact that they would be messier than tampons. They are not, but I doubt that I would be able to convince you of that.

shellsuit

onlyroz wrote: »

You stated as a fact that they would be messier than tampons. They are not, but I doubt that I would be able to convince you of that.

OK, trying not to be too graphic, when you take out a tampon, the liquid is absorbed in and around it. You take it out and it goes straight into the loo. Then you wipe and insert another.

When you take out a mooncup, you have to empty it.

Where do you empty it?

How do you clean it before you insert it again?

That's how, IMO, they're messier, for a young girl to use.

onlyroz

shellsuit wrote: »

When you take out a mooncup, you have to empty it.

Where do you empty it?.

You tip the blood into the loo and flush it away.

How do you clean it before you insert it again?

When "out-and-about", you wipe it round with toilet paper. When at home you rinse it under the tap. Between periods you boil it for 5 mins.

It is also not recommended to flush anything down the loo apart from toilet paper - therefore I certainly wouldn't recommend to anybody that they flush a tampon/towel away (and having blocked my drains twice just by flushing baby-wipes, I certainly wouldn't flush a tampon - I'd get such a ticking off from Dynorod if i did). Therefore, you're left with trying to wrap up the dirty towel/tampon whilst trying not to drop the clean one.

pulliptears

onlyroz wrote: »

You tip the blood into the loo and flush it away.


When "out-and-about", you wipe it round with toilet paper. When at home you rinse it under the tap. Between periods you boil it for 5 mins.

It is also not recommended to flush anything down the loo apart from toilet paper - therefore I certainly wouldn't recommend to anybody that they flush a tampon/towel away (and having blocked my drains twice just by flushing baby-wipes, I certainly wouldn't flush a tampon - I'd get such a ticking off from Dynorod if i did). Therefore, you're left with trying to wrap up the dirty towel/tampon whilst trying not to drop the clean one.

Whilst I think mooncups are a good idea I do think you are biased towards them and quite anti tampon. Your post reminds me a little of the JML Home Shopping ads with the lady in a fluster over a very easy task of painting just so JML can sell you their super dooper paint kit...

You remove the dirty towel, sit on the loo, wrap it in loo roll and dispose of it in the sanitary bin. You then retrieve the clean one from your bag/between your teeth/top of the loo roll holder etc etc

Its not difficult really.