How Cloth Pads and Reusable Menstrual Cups Can Seriously Change Your Life
A necessary evil? Kind of uncomfortable? Or just inevitable, so what are you going to do about it?
But what if there are alternatives?
This week I’ve been talking about getting to know our bodies better, and I thought it was time to talk about the way we handle our periods.
Femallay is an awesome company that’s decided to partner with me, and they approached me to talk to you all about some of their products that make sex easier and more fun–like their flavoured vaginal suppositories that help with lubrication. But when I took a look around their website, I was actually really excited about their menstrual products, too, and I thought that I’d talk about those, even before we talk about lubrication (which is a good thing, too!)
So let me tell you about my journey with reusable menstrual products.
It all started in 2007 when we were getting ready to head over to Kenya again as a family, to visit the Mulli Children’s Family. This is an awesome Kenyan-run children’s home, where about 800 minors live full-time (and the home also supports hundreds of graduates, giving tuition to higher education, jobs, and more). Anyway, one of their big problems was menstrual products. They cost the same in Kenya as they do here, even though the average wage is so much lower. So you can imagine how much money they’d have to shell out every month to keep hundreds of girls and female staff members supplied with menstrual products!
So I got a group of women together and we started making reusable cloth pads. They’re super easy–flannel on top, fleece on the bottom, towelling or other material on the inside (you can even use old raincoats cut up!). We had a couple of big sewing parties at my house, and took about a thousand over with us next time we went.
We had an assembly line going at my house with people cutting (that’s actually Rebecca when she was about 13):
And sewing (here’s my mother-in-law!):
Until we had a bunch done.
Then we took them to Kenya with us with tons of material so they could make them, too:
It honestly was one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done.
A review of natural and reusable menstrual products (to make your period safer & easier!): Click To Tweet
Reusable Cloth Pads Make Your Period More Fun
But while I was doing that, I started to notice: when you can use your own flannel, they’re kind of cute. And they’re soft. And I hated that “plastic” feel of regular pads. So I thought, what if I could wear them, too?
(Here’s where this post may start getting in to the Too Much Information category. Sorry! 
