Topic: menstruation

Blisstree Poll: Are ‘Period Preparedness Packages’ Delivered To Your Door Convenient Or Condescending?

Blisstree Poll: Are 'Period Preparedness Packages' Delivered To Your Door Convenient Or Condescending?

In recent months, a variety of companies have popped up to help women be prepared for that special time of the month. Juniper, HelloFlo, and LeParcel all deliver tampons to your door so that ladies are never caught in that awful situation of rushing to the drug store with toilet paper stuff between your legs because you ran out of sanitary supplies. But here at Blisstree, we’re not quite sure if these services are just incredibly convenient or if they play into some obnoxious stereotypes about women and that hormonal time of the month. More »

What’s The Deal With Yoga On Your Period? Sadie Nardini Gives Us The Lowdown

What's The Deal With Yoga On Your Period? Sadie Nardini Gives Us The Lowdown

If you’re a woman and you’ve ever taken a yoga class, you’ve most likely heard admonitions from the teacher or suggestions on the necessity of modifying (or not doing) certain poses if you’re on your period. I’ve always wondered about this: what’s really the deal with this prohibition? Why is it so bad to do inversions or other poses when you’re menstruating? To learn more, I asked expert yogi Sadie Nardini, host of ‘Rock Your Yoga’ on Veria TV and author of the upcoming book 21-Day Yoga Body. More »

I’m Trying To Keep My Daughter’s Period Away With Hormone-Free Food

I’m Trying To Keep My Daughter’s Period Away With Hormone-Free Food

Thanks to exposure to hand soaps that contain xenoestrogens and hormones in our food supplies, kids as young as six years old are starting to reach precocious puberty, especially girls. As a mom to an 8-year-old, the idea of her getting her period or breasts within the next year scares me to death so I try to do everything I can to limit her exposure to hormones in food and chemicals in our household products that have been shown to accelerate puberty.The simple fact is I’m probably not doing enough. More »

What The Cup? 6 Period-Friendly Alternatives To Moldy Tampons

What The Cup? 6 Period-Friendly Alternatives To Moldy Tampons

Following Parr for the Course blogger Danielle‘s accidental discovery of that repulsive moldy tampon that made the internet collectively shudder, there’s been a lot of talk about alternative methods for period care. Multiple commenters shared their positive experiences with a whole crop of other kinds of flow-catchers, including eco-friendly reusable cloth pads, and contraptions like the DivaCup. But there seem to be some lingering questions, so we decided to round up all the options in one place. More »

Add To The List Of Reasons Why Applicator-Free Tampons Rock: Mold

Add To The List Of Reasons Why Applicator-Free Tampons Rock: Mold

Oh. My god. Someone shared this blog post by Danielle at Parr for the Course in a Facebook group for awesome women that I belong to, and I couldn’t help but share it with you all. See, Danielle (who, I hope, is having a very big drink after the day she’s had) recently found a moldy tampon in a brand-new box. A moldy. Tampon. But here’s the kicker: because they’re the applicator kind, if she hadn’t accidentally popped it out of the plastic, she never would have known. I’m beyond repulsed. More »

The “Doctor” Is In: Women Ask Rick Perry, Uterus Expert, About Periods, Birth Control

The "Doctor" Is In: Women Ask Rick Perry, Uterus Expert, About Periods, Birth Control

During this whole birth control kerfuffle, many, many non-uterus-having, non-medical-doctorate-having politicians have shown  that they truly have an intimate knowledge of the female body. It has become clear to many women in this country that men simply know better than be do when it comes to matters of pregnancy and periods and basically everything. Which is probably why dozens of women have been coming to menstruation expert (and Texas Governor) Rick Perry (via Facebook) asking for advice about their menstrual cycles. And boy, do they have some good questions for him. More »

“The Story Of Menstruation”: Disney’s Surprisingly Smart 1946 Sex-Ed Video

"The Story Of Menstruation": Disney's Surprisingly Smart 1946 Sex-Ed Video

There’s been a lot of talk about birth control and women’s health, lately. And it seems like a lot of folks are confused about some of the rudimentary elements of sex, pregnancy, and the female body, and there’s quite a bit of misinformation (like, you know, the many uses of aspirin). Maybe now is is a good time to get back to basics with the miracle of our sacred ladybits, with the help of this surprisingly progressive (albeit old-fashioned) video, courtesy of Walt Disney. It’s “The Story of Menstruation,” and it’s circa 1946. More »

6 Reasons Why Your Period Might Be Irregular

6 Reasons Why Your Period Might Be Irregular

Contrary to what you may be inclined to believe by the period-shaming media, your monthly flow is not embarrassing, not blue, not consistant, and often, not monthly at all. In fact, for most women, at some point in their lives, unusual menstruation is the norm–and that perfect, 28-day cycle is an illusive creature, like a hormonal unicorn leaping over rainbows of body-positive tampon ads off on the horizon. But even with that knowledge, when your period does something unpredicted, it can still be worrisome. More »

I Just Can’t Get Behind Reusable Menstrual Pads

I Just Can't Get Behind Reusable Menstrual Pads

With the DIY movement going strong, crafty women have started making just about everything themselves, which delights my green, tree-hugging heart. But it’s time I came clean on the sustainable something I just can’t do. I admit it: I’m the worst body-positive, eco-friendly-living-espousing feminist of all time. Because, despite my best efforts, I cannot make myself be OK with reusable menstrual pads. More »

Are Periods Really Why Women Don’t Ride Bikes As Much As Men?

Are Periods Really Why Women Don't Ride Bikes As Much As Men?

There are a lot of theories about why women don’t ride bikes as much as men, but here’s one I’d never heard until today: That it’s hard for ladies to ride while they’re on their periods. Crazy, right? Well, apparently not. Grist’s Elly Blue wrote about the issue yesterday, revealing that there seems to be a big divide amongst female cyclists, between those who do and those who do not have problems riding a bike when they’re menstruating. So, my question is: Do you? More »