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[ovarieaction.livejournal.com]

are these not the most badass cloth pads you have ever seen?

SO.. i want to try cloth pads (seeing how unhealthy tampons are, and how bad for the planet disposable ones are) but i think most importantly i feel like switching to cloth pads is sort of a statement to myself of acceptance of periods as a normal and pretty rad part of life..

i tried making them from a pattern i got, but i was not too successful. the pads i made were extremely bulky. so... what i'm looking to do it buy pads from different womyn making them, compare which i like best, and then try incorporate those styles into my own pads to sew. so anyone who knows of websites/womyn i can get in touch with who make these, let me know! so far i know of only 3 places selling these:
1.Many Moons Alternatives
2. Hag Rag
3. UrbanArmor.org (the ones pictured at the top)

(if anyone wants to know where to find those i would be happy to look up the addresses of the ones i listen)

so PLEASE post comments to this if you know places who make these, or if you use cloth pads because i am way interested in hearing how you like them and whatnot!

let it flow sisters :)
-adriane

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[melonaise.livejournal.com]

I was talking with a male friend of mine whose wife recently got pregnant (he got laid off from work and was spending a lot of time at home, so... yeah). Their first child is a couple years old now, and was a big surprise because she was conceived while the wife was on pill BC. Progesterone-only type. Before going on the pill, the wife had had several (about 5) miscarriages. It turns out the reason she had been having so many miscarriages was because her body wasn't producing enough progesterone at a critical point-- the BC supplied it.

Just wanted to share an interesting story. Anyone ever hear anything like this?

Please read this link

[sophiasophia.livejournal.com]

BAN BREAST FEEDING!?!?!?!


I am posting this everywhere. I hope it is appropriate in here for all of us.


I really hope this web site is a joke.

Either way....it offends me.

my mistress has returned

[d-r-love.livejournal.com]

Olivia's back. (period)
hopefully will only stay and visit with me for a week or so.
or however long these normal affairs last.
I feel fine though
i've never had really bad cramps before.

SO question: DO YOUR BREAST HURT SOMETIMES?
cause i have rather large breast and sometimes i get these horrible pains just shooting me
i've talked to other breast and only one has responded with the sometimes sharp pains.
please tell me i am not the only breast with pain!!
and what is the point of the pain??
thank you thank you
WISH ME luck that my period doesn't stay 11 WEEKS like last time!!!

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[antibob.livejournal.com]

i hope my period comes this coming week. i haven't had it since october. i ran out of the pill and wasn't able to get it renewed it until after thanksgiving. i didn't have my period in november and i wanted to start my new pack of bc but i didn't want to wait for my period to come because i didn't know if it would ever. i took a pregnancy test a week before thanksgiving but i'm scared i could have become pregnant the week of thanksgiving. its very doubtful, but i'm paranoid about it. does anyone know if birth control works if you don't wait until after your period to take it? or if you're pregnant and you take the pill, is there any way that your body will have a period anyway?
thanks!

newbie...

[vangie.livejournal.com]

i was just wondering... does anyone have any good tips for cramps? i get them about every three cycles, and when i get then i get them bad. yesterday they were so bad i could barely walk/stand/think. today i had to skip french class and lie down in the clinic. i'm not sure if my problems today were directly from the cramps, or if they were worse becaue my liver was trying to handle the massive amounts of tylenol/midol/ibprofen/aleve i had taken...

Pain!!! Oh my God!

[scarlett75.livejournal.com]

Ok, so there I was sitting at the Girl Scout Cookie Meeting (yes, sales start in six weeks), and I started feeling NASTY!! I felt like I was going to pass out.

I drove home (very carefully) and about half-way I started cramping. This sucks!!! I took a shower, thinking the warmth would help, and it made it worse. MAN OH MAN!! I just took a Darvocet and I'm thinking about going to bed with a heating pad...and maybe taking another Darvocet. Could I possibly be getting my period ALREADY?? So soon after the miscarriage?? It's only been ... 29 days...that would be really fast for me...and normally, post pregnancy menses take a while to start. YIKES!! Then again.... it wouldn't surprise me. Did I say how much this sucks???

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[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Wow, I randomly stumbled across this community (from anti_ana), and I was just wondering earlier today where I could ask about this stuff...

9 or so months out of the year I'm reasonably regular (not exact cycles, but roughly every month, give or take a few days). In winter, I'm not.

For the past four years (at least. Four years ago was the first time I really noticed it), my periods have stopped from October or November until the end of December or January. The first two times it caused pregnancy scares, but the third time, pregnancy would have required immaculate conception. That's when I realized the pattern.

Sure enough, I'm late again this year.

I'm curious as to whether anyone's ever heard of predictable irregularity like this.

I have various hypotheses - it could be caused by a change in eating habits or activity levels, or a reaction to the temperature and light level changes (the first time I noticed it was also the first time I was in a climate with actual seasons). Or some combination of the above. Or, at this point, it might be mental - I've always had some degree of semi-conscious control over my periods (speaking of which, it'll quite likely start tomorrow, now that I've mentioned it here).

Who knows.

It's a bit annoying this particular time (though not scary, as it's been in the past). I'm supposed to be starting birth control pills, and you're supposed to wait until the first Sunday of (or after) your period to start them. So I'm waiting...and waiting...and waiting... I think I'll try the parsely tea which was mentioned below.

Speaking of birth control pills...I have mixed feelings. I feel that I'm finally reasonably in touch with my cycle - I may not be able to look at a calendar a month ahead of time and point out the day it's likely to start, but I've got the signs down, and it never catches me by surprise. And now I'm going to go and throw that all out the window...

Perhaps I should invest heavily in dark jeans :)