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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She has to figure tampons out. Women go on long hikes and camp all the time, where bathroom and garbage access is limited. You take a bag and dispose of it in sealed bag and carry it with you until you can dispose of it. It isn’t a big deal- unless you make it one.  In which case you shouldn’t go on trips where a standing bathroom isn’t available. [/quote]

She literally doesn't.  There are more ecological alternatives to tampons.  It's funny the poster above is talking about taking all this trash and packing it out like it helps the environment.

Would your daughter use the cup?  If not - would she use period swim bottoms?  [/quote]

1) cups are way more difficult to use than tampons
2) she won’t have access to running water to wash her hands
3) the cup needs to be emptied and reinserted- how would that go, with dirty hands, in the woods, with no water to rinse the cup, or your hands?
That sounds way worse [/quote]
Cups are supposed to last 12 hours, they hold way more than a tampon 
On the other hand, if it fails it will be an embarrassing disaster [/quote]

As an adult woman, who’s had zero issues with tampons starting at 11, I could not get a cup to work.  I’ve tried several times over the years.  On the one occasion I did manage to get it in, the seal was so strong, I couldn’t get it out.  I had to pull so hard that when the seal broke and it came out, blood flung all over the bathroom.  It looked like a murder scene.  That isn’t to say some women don’t have great success with cups, but there a much higher change for things to go wrong and it can be a big challenge to get the hang of them and get a comfortable fit [/quote]

+1 My young teen tried a cup and also had trouble removing it. When it had been in for much longer than was suggested and DD could not remove it, I called her pediatrician, who referred me to a pediatric gynecologist, who said we could come in several days later or we could go to the emergency room. She got in a hot shower and was eventually able to remove it.

I would not recommend a cup for this situation unless DD is eager to try it, and uses it successfully multiple times before camp.

Good luck, OP.   [/quote]

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