When I first heard about the menstrual cup, I rejected the entire idea and decided that I was better off with using the sanitary napkins. I didn’t have to bother with menstrual cycles for two years after I became pregnant with my daughter and later did not bleed periodically for more than a year. But then when my body finally began to return to its old self, I resorted to using sanitary napkins. I was fine with it but I had seen the cups in social media and ads. Image source: behance.net So, I logged into Amazon and ordered the cheapest cups which had great reviews too. They sat on my bathroom shelf for three months, unopened and unused. I kept telling myself I just didn’t have the time because I had kids and really, who wants to bother learning something new and why bother learning to put something inside your lady parts! I forgot all about the cups and moved to a different city where I met another woman who asked me if I had heard about the cups. I said, I did but I wasn’t keen