What do you use??

[~clover~]

I actually haven't used a tampon since DD1 was born.
I don't really know why, just can't bring myself to do it. I think at the start I was scared it would hurt - my 1st AF was 4 months after she was born - but I really don't know.

[visitor1]

Before kids i wouldnt be caught dead with a pad on..except for bed....it was tampons all the way...since kids ive not touched a tampon!

[alioops]

I prefer tampons when there is heavy to medium flow and pads when it is light. I am going to get a mooncup or divacup soon though so will use neither.

[Hoody]

Tampons all the way here. I hate the feeling of pads even the slim/thin ones make me feel like i am wearing a nappy. I will wear a panty liner though at the end when my flow is minimal. Apart from having my girls and wearing Maternity pads i dont remember the last time i used them for a normal AF.
Hoody

[dee73]

I'm a pad girl, always have been except if I'm going swimming. Just don't like sticking the tampon in, feels unnatural...

[Salsa]

Tampon, hardly ever use a pad - only when Im really short on tampons or very heavy.

However, I have been waiting for this pregnacy and after it will start using a mooncup or similar. Im thinking or getting into reusable/cloth pads too.
Aside from the enviroment and costs it surely got to be better for your body. I wish I had known about them years ago. I sometimes wonder if tampons have contributed in anyway to some of my endo etc.

On an enviro aspect re; tampons, DH went to the sewage works when he was at school for a tour, and he said the ponds were just full of tampons. He said it was obvious to him that the shouldnt all be there, yet unfortunatley they are.

[Turkish Delight]

I've used pads since i got my first AF.

I would love to be able to use tampons but don't know how to insert them properly. Mum never allowed me to use tampons as a teenager incase my virginity would be taken (we have to be virgins when we marry - i'm islamic).

I'm thinking of buying tampons for summer, so i'll have to keep on trying until i get it right!

But a pad user here.