OK update on my new diva cup. very comfy, easy to put in and take out. Not one drop of leakage even Day 2, my heaviest. I am really comfortable with my body, my womanly bits, free and easy...definately NOT a prude BUT i would rate the ICK factor of using the Diva 10/10 still. the whole fishing around to remove it, empting the blood, rinsing and re-inserting is, well, just not pleasent for me. anyone else have a high ick factor that reduced as they got used to it. i really love the convienience of using it so much so the high ick factor will not stop me but just wondering if you get used to the whole confronting sight of empting a cup of menstral blood down the loo then cleaning it out.
maybe i am a prude!
beckles
Beckles the ick factor definitely does decrease with use - after 3 or 4 months you DON'T fish around, because you know exactly where to look - like your fingers find the stem/base without any effort or thought, you are so USED to seeing the blood in the cup and watching it settle in the loo and the last of it wash away in the sink, you no longer think about it, and in general the most revolting thing i've encountered since then is the sight, one month i was abroad and forgot to take the Keeper with me, of my usually tidy-in-the-cup menstrual blood smeared messily like toxic jam on a disgusting pad and tampon, both of which i could hardly bear to touch to get rid of them. I can remember before having DD the sight and smell and feel of someone's baby drooling or (even worse) eating messily and putting spit or food on me *actually* made me retch, but familiarity breeds acceptance, since DD passed through the dribbly/weaning stage i don't mind a bit of food at all. Once a baby at toddler group i was holding while his mummy ran to the loo was sick all down my new top and when the group leader freaked and began asking for wipes from all the other mums i was like "nah, he's a baby, nothing horrible comes out of a baby". Never thought i'd think it, let alone say it!

Give it a bit more time hun, the ick goes as familiarity gorws.

Bx

PS the girl who introduced me to Keeper is SO OCD she would take our plates to wash them WHILE WE WERE STILL EATING and she loves her cup. It's just a matter of getting accostomed to seeing the blood in that context. Afterall, poo on the pavement is to be avoided, but poo on our little lovely's bum is to be carefully wiped away....