Anonymous wrote:A camp with no bathrooms wouldn’t even be considered in our household. Wtf are you thinking??? Abort.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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?

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

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

It is safe to keep a cup in for 12 hours before taking it out and washing it. It doesn't mean it lasts for 12 hours. Teens typically use relatively small cups. It really depends on the flow how long it lasts.

My cup holds 40ml. The upper limit for the entire period is around 60ml. You're not supposed to need to empty it as frequently as you would change a tampon. On the other hand, heavy periods are relatively common, including among young girls who are still having anovulatory cycles. It might be unpleasant as a (presumable virgin teen) to take the cup in and out. I've had a vaginal birth and it hurts me a bit

I don't know what to tell you. My cup would start feeling uncomfortable and leaking after 4 hours on a heavy day. It really is very flow and anatomy dependent. And this is just not the time to introduce it. It takes several cycles to learn how to use it.

FWIW I eventually switched to a disc which works much better for me.

Anonymous wrote:My girls wear Knix and they supposedly hold 3 tampons worth of blood. So far so good for us.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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?

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

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

It is safe to keep a cup in for 12 hours before taking it out and washing it. It doesn't mean it lasts for 12 hours. Teens typically use relatively small cups. It really depends on the flow how long it lasts.

My cup holds 40ml. The upper limit for the entire period is around 60ml. You're not supposed to need to empty it as frequently as you would change a tampon. On the other hand, heavy periods are relatively common, including among young girls who are still having anovulatory cycles. It might be unpleasant as a (presumable virgin teen) to take the cup in and out. I've had a vaginal birth and it hurts me a bit

Anonymous wrote:This is a weeklong rafting camp - each day they go rafting all day, and then go home each night. So yeah, I guess we could forfeit the entire week. But as of now, she wants to go, so I’m trying to help figure out some ideas.

Anonymous wrote:my dd got her first period in May or June when she turned 12, she figured tampons out within a month or two so that she could wear a bathing suit at beach and feel comfortable. I'm sure your dd can do it if she has a little time to practice it's not very hard and you have some nice options to choose from that are easy to use

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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?

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

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

It is safe to keep a cup in for 12 hours before taking it out and washing it. It doesn't mean it lasts for 12 hours. Teens typically use relatively small cups. It really depends on the flow how long it lasts.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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?

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

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

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

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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?

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

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

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

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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?

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

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

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

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On OB trips they carry a "groover" which is the aforementioned box that everyone poops in (pack your trash and all that), basically a field toilet that they set up in some privacy. No cat-holes on rafting trips! I hope your daughter can get it sorted -- that sounds like so much fun!