For the first time...i'm enjoying my period

[rainbowballoons.livejournal.com]

Hello all.
If this isn't relevant or isn't allowed, delete it, by all means.
This isn't really a 'question' post or anything like that, i just wanted to say...
After five or six odd years of hating, cursing and blaspheming my period, i've finnaly come to accept it. I have made peace with my body and what it does.
My best girlfriend picked up a package of sea sponges and made me some cute rainbow colored reusable pads for a gift, saying that i would love my cycle even more after i'd used them. Skeptical me, i put them away for awhile, but on my last cycle, i decided to give them a go.
Well, the first time I had to wash my menstrual pads(by hand, since my mother doesn't want to see, or think about the idea of me re-using a pad) i experienced such a wonderful moment of clarity, of how beautiful it is to be a woman, to have this blood power. And finnaly respecting my vag and cycle by using only natural, organic products? That feels even better. For the first time, i don't feel 'dirty' when i bleed, i don't feel guilty when i look in the wastebasket and see all those disgusting used plastic pads and tampons that pollute the enviornment.

And another great part? My not-boyfriend(we're not dating, but pretty close to it) thinks it's the most wonderful thing in the world. In fact, he's so pleased that he went out and bought me some cloth so that i can make more pads for myself.

So ends my happy-period rant.

Comments

[darkenedminds.livejournal.com]

Good for you :)

And, as a side note, I find handwashing my pads to be more effective. They're so small that the machine's agitations just doesn't seem to get the inner layers clean.

[daisybones.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful! I'm trying to get to that place. I was thrilled (!) to not mentruate for 16 months during pregnancy & nursing (still nursing but got my period now.) So now I have to learn to love it. I think the natural products would help. I felt so itchy and yucky in my disposable pad, and I think alot of it is that i'm aware of the natural alternatives now. I only started reading about cloth pads & stuff as an offshoot of natural birth issues, and now I really wanna get some or have them made.

[kittypoop.livejournal.com]

i wAnt to tell you something. i am right there with you...as soon as i started to make mine - i stopped getting my girl. and i have had it once and a half since then (in a 9 month period) andid give anything to have it...aside from the horrid discomfort i feel everyday from my uterus....i miss it. my period. my girl. i felt like a woman, part of mother earth. sharing the pain....helping with the burden...just pure connection. so agreed ^_ and be greatful. i just told my girlfriend..."id have my period everyday for a month, then off a month, then on...just so i could have it again" haha
thanks for sharing!
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