It is nice...

[maurajen.livejournal.com]

It is nice knowing your body...my period always comes on a wednesday...i know it, my body knows it. my boyfriend thought maybe i would get it a little earlier because my lovely aroma had changed a bit...and i say "no, i will get my period on Wednesday, late tuesday night" and i did!

This is my first cycle being able to use my sea sponges all the way through...i first got my sponges in high school, but i was always a little paranoid cleaning them at school. now i am out of high school and i got some new ones and i just want to say that i love the way they keep my vulva so clean...maxi pads always get so messy, and most cylces my vulva aches, but not this cycle...so yeah, sea sponges are definitely nifty!

Comments

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

Sea Sponges, eh? Would you be so kind as to send me a link that would tell me all about it? Or would you be so kind as to tell me how you go about using them and their care and maintainence?

They really are the niftiest things

[maurajen.livejournal.com]

find sea sponges here! (http://www.jadeandpearl.com)

jade and pearl are the exact sponges i use. the woman who owns the health food store here in my little town orders them for me. I love them!

Re: They really are the niftiest things

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Re: They really are the niftiest things

[maurajen.livejournal.com]

you are most welcome!

[bicardigurl.livejournal.com]

same as above......
what exactly are sea sponges??

[maurajen.livejournal.com]

from the jade and pearl sea sponge booklett that came with my sponges "Sponges are plant-like creatures growing i colonies on the ocean floor. There are over fory-five hundred varieties, the softest of which ae the Atlantic and Mediterranean Silks. As sponges are harvested, millions of egg and sperm cells are released into the surrounding water, making the sponge a renewable resource that provides ecologically sound product for menstrual use...."

there is a link that i added above...the website is great!

Re:

[bicardigurl.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay.
Thanks!!

[kitsune-rei.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds neat! Definately would be a money saver, from constantly buying and throwing away pads and such. My only thing is I don't usually wear tampons because they tend to be uncomfortable for me, but I'm not really thrilled with pads either, cause they are messy and smelly and you're always tied to the bathroom so you can change them... Are these more comfortable? They seem a bit expensive, but if you reuse them a lot I guess its worth it. About how many times can you re-use them? And you just rinse them out under the flaucet or something quick and then put them back in? I know I generally get pretty icky periods too...

[kitsune-rei.livejournal.com]

Well, I looked around the site some more- I see they're good for 6 mo to a year which is great! Only drawbacks I can come up with:
1. You'd have to be willing to get messy. You gotta stick your fingers up in there to pull them out, and you'll have to wash em off. If its inconvienent to wash it you gotta somehow package it so you can take it with you home (cause I would think it'd be kinda gross to walk into a public restroom and see someone washing one of those.) I guess you'd have to zip in the handicapped stall since it has a private sink...
2. You'll have to custom shape each sponge, since they only come in one size. Since they're natural I assume size will always vary some, and of course each woman is a different size too.

Otherwise they seem like a great alternative.

[maurajen.livejournal.com]

Personally, I don't get too messy when taking out the sponge(less messy than sitting around in your mences all day, getting it stuck to you and such) and I have very rarely been in a situation where it has over-flown or anything like that. That is exactly why i was worried about using my sponges while still in high school, but even now, it seems more hygenic to use sponges than throwing away maxi-pads in public restrooms...I work at a resturaunt and there is nothing worse than when a woman doesn't get her maxi-pad into the waste-basket. So now that I am a little more self-assured I don't worry so much about people seeing me wash them. Your period is a natural thing, and I don't want to hide how i take care of it.

Shaping your sponge is fun though...I have had four sponges and i have only had to shape one because it was a little too big for me...but usually once you get them wet, they are so soft and nice to put in, definitely unlike wearing a tampon! I also find that for me, my sponges seem to have a better capacity for holding my mences than a tampon...this whole cycle i haven't spotted my underwear at all...with conventional tampons they always seem to get too full too fast. so yeah...give them a try if you think you may like them...or spread the word to some friends who may be interested in them!

[kitsune-rei.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info! I think I will look into them and try them out then ^_^. Will take a bit of getting used to, but everything does...
Yeah, that is horrible when people don't dispose of their pads properly. I'm always very contientious about it. I guess I'd still be embarassed to have to wash one in public, but maybe I'd get used to it, and I can probably be able to do it at home most of the time anyway.
I don't really know what size I'd be... maybe that's part of the reason I had trouble with tampons. I know the first ones I used were probably too big, but even the small ones felt weird. So I would think a sponge would feel so much better than a bullet-shaped cotton thingie, I assume it has more give and flexability. How do you know how to make it shaped more comfortably? Do you just kind of try to work it and feel where its not quite right? Or maybe I'm just too concious of something inside me, even when it isn't actually really hurting I feel weird. I would probably also be kinda afraid of getting them out the first couple times, but I guess I'd get the knack. Is there any risks associated with how long you leave them in?
That's cool it holds more! Nothing sucks more than getting blood on your underwear, I now have my "period underwear" that consists of everything wearing out or the ones I just don't like as well just in case of spotting ^_^;