This one's for the females...

This topic doesn't exactly come up around the dinner table or in friendly conversation, but I wanted to share this product with the women who read my blog because well, I had no idea this kind of thing existed until just after I got pregnant last year. After Harvey was born, that monthly visitor came back a lot sooner than expected and I was kind of disappointed that I couldn't have a nice long break like most other breastfeeding moms. Mine didn't even skip a beat. Just right back into it after the regular post partum stuff stopped. Thanks body... :sigh:

Anyway, on to the product I want to talk about. Instead SoftCups. Like I said, while I was pregnant I had found out that this product existed from a mothering/baby/pregnancy site and I kept it in the back of my mind though I really had no intention of trying it and certainly not any time soon...until I found out I was one of the lucky minority who continues bleeding through breastfeeding. I had never heard of anything else other than pads and tampons (and cloth pads) and didn't really think to look for anything else either because it hadn't really occurred to me that there WAS anything else since that is all they talk about in the "Welcome to your Period 101" class in elementary school. Turns out the rest of the world has been ahead of us in this department for a while. ---Side Note: There are also these nifty things called "menstrual cups" that pretty much every other country (even Africa) uses. One of those cost just $30-40-ish and will last you for 10 years. You just wash it between uses and use it over and over. That sounds like a good deal to me and I may try that some time in the future. But, they also wear a little differently than the SoftCup. You can also look into those though if you're interested in all of the different options out there too.--- Anyway, back on topic. I figured I'd give the Soft Cup a try and see how it compared to other products. There was slight learning curve at first and I wasn't sure it was going to work for me the first day, but after I re-read the instructions and tried again two more times, I can say that I love this product. These are so much nicer, more comfortable, and have more benefits than wearing tampons and pads that I wanted to share with all of you lady readers of my blog who are probably also oblivious that there are even any other options out there. You can even get them at Wal*Mart too. They've been in plain site all along. Their website has a list of stores that carry them - mostly drug stores and Wal*Mart. They also make "reusable" ones so you just use one per cycle (think I might try those eventually too) but those are only available online.  My favorite part is that you can wear them 12 hours at a time so you don't use as many of them or have to worry about carrying a bunch of feminine products or different "absorbencies" with you if you are going somewhere or for "just in case". And what a convenience this will be when traveling! Rather than explain what they are and how they work, here is their website for you to check out.

http://www.softcup.com/