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The menstrual cup and my life!

 

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. 

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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 on using them. She went on to say how the cup had changed her life since more than a decade. Just meeting a live person who had used this product gave me enough motivation to get started. Back home, I got excited by the idea of using the cup. I sterilized the cups and got down to learning how to use this object inside of me.  

This is where it turned a little rough. Like most women, I wasn’t familiar with how my body looked down below. I am not a very curious person either. Also, it’s so gross! But I watched videos and learned about becoming familiar with my body. I succeeded after many failed attempts to get the cup inside of me.

I walked around nervously, scared that it was going to fall out of me. It didn’t!

After an hour, I didn’t feel the presence of the cup at all which scared me all the more. When I stepped into the bathroom to retrieve it, I struggled to find it! I was pretty nervous by now and cursed this whole idea. I struggled for five minutes to locate the cup and pull it out of me. I decided I was returning to pads because I was totally grossed out by the experience.

But I couldn’t forget the comfort that I had experienced for a few hours with the cup inside of me. I had never felt so free before during menstruation.

I ordered another cup because I wondered if I had a higher cervix after childbirth. In the next period, I used the cup for a whole night. When I tried to retrieve it, I didn’t struggle and was able to locate it pretty easily. I tried it a few more times and now I seem to have got the hang of using a cup.

It’s definitely way more hygienic but what matters more is comfort. Not feeling a pad sitting inside my underwear make me feel so much free unlike before.

I am not a person who writes product reviews. I personally hate giving reviews but menstrual cups are a game changer for women, especially for parents who have a lot going on in their lives already.

 

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