Mooncup for me - so I guess that's the tampon option. But only for the first 3 days, for the following 2-4 days I use pantyliners as there's so little blood.
A mooncup is a menstrual cup. It's a plastic... cup, sort of like the top of a goblet with a wide rim and it sits inside your vagina and catches the blood. It's really easy to use, just a little odd to get out at first. The first few times I'd say wear a pad/liner with it because if you're not used to it it may leak, but I've only had that once. It's really easy to use and cheaper than tampons, plus you don't run out. And you can see how much blood you've caught in it because it has markings on! I know, I know, I'm so anal I like to measure EVERYTHING. Also because it's a cup it doesn't dry you out, which is the big problem with tampons, and because you're not dry you don't feel it very much.
Interesting how many use pads! I am def tampons!! Only pads for night and I hate them!! Nothing really changed for me after having kids, got straight back into tampons when AF came back.
addit - rosehip what do you do when you go out? Do you need to wash the mooncup? Sorry, mooncup virgin!!!
When you're out and about, depends on your flow. Because you don't dry out, often you don't need to change it. If you do, the huuuuge booklet (in about fifty languages, just looks scary and thick at first) suggests you just rinse out with bottled water. I usually rinse with water (we have everything set up for rinsing nappies in the loo so no faff, but you could use a jug normally) and sterilise when I remember, you can boil it or cold sterilise it as often as you want, usually between periods though.
I think it's great because it's environmentally friendier than tampons, it's re-usable, it feels better and it saves money.
Only time I've used pads was when I had my post birth bleeding otherwise I'm a tampon girl. Well, currently I'm nothing at all coz of implanon. I'm one of the lucky ones it seems who doesn't get a period with implanon.
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