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I spent a year and a half as the community manager for a major tampon and pad brand. I enjoyed…

So, here’s the challenge that I present to anyone who’s interested in joining along: For the next 100 days, you do one burpee for each day. Day one, you do one, on day two, you do two, one day 34, you do 34, and so on. They don’t need to be done all at once, so if you need to break it up into sets, that’s fine. Just as long as you do all of them in a 24 hour period. If you miss a day, you can “buy back” into it by making up ALL of the previous days’ (yes, days) burpees. For example, if you miss day 17, you will need to do 17, 16, 15, 14,…3, 2, 1 (for you math nerds, you need to do the factorial of the day that you missed).

Always Infinity pads are one of the newer, slightly more expensive products to hit the menstruation marketplace. It boasts of its ability to stay in place, absorb better, and of a design that inhibits leaks. Basically, what almost all pads claim to do. Having tried many other pads since my confusing, painful, and anti-climactic transition to womanhood, I can say that these pads are actually the real deal. Despite the fact that the Always website has copy that looks like it was poorly translated from another language into English, (“ideal product for menstruation period”?) they’re not lying about the abilities of this product.

These two experiences drove home to me that until Sally Jr. can drive to the store & plan her own meals, this gig is on me. I have to be prepared, otherwise she’ll be stuck with a life full of candy canes, fruit leather and potato chips. If I don’t make our home a safe place, then she doesn’t get any break, ever, from evaluating her food and deciding if it will make her sick.

Always Infinity pads are one of the newer, slightly more expensive products to hit the menstruation marketplace. It boasts of its ability to stay in place, absorb better, and of a design that inhibits leaks. Basically, what almost all pads claim to do. Having tried many other pads since my confusing, painful, and anti-climactic transition to womanhood, I can say that these pads are actually the real deal. Despite the fact that the Always website has copy that looks like it was poorly translated from another language into English, (“ideal product for menstruation period”?) they’re not lying about the abilities of this product.

My first attempt at weaning off the tampons required going back to one of the older methods of stopping the flow – the sponge. The Museum of Women's Health and Menstruation states that the sponge is one of many of the oldest period control methods. Women are have said to used sponges for absorbing menstrual discharge, as well as medicating their vaginas and killing sperm for thousands of years. Sea sponges had been used by women living on coastal areas, as well as sex workers who used the sponges so that they could still work on their period. The sponge itself is highly absorbent and small pored, and doesn’t dry out the vaginal canal or alter the pH of the vagina like most tampons do. Bonus points: no TSS risk.