Are You a Diva?

By Heather on June 9, 2008 in natural living.

This post goes out to all you ladies out there! If you're a man, you'll probably just want to stop reading now. Trust me on this one.

I am very excited to spread the word about the Diva Cup1, an amazing personal product for women. This is the most wonderful solution to your monthly visitor that you've ever heard of or probably even imagined. It is a completely safe and morally acceptable way to deal with your period. Period!

I know this is a bit of a personal topic, but I couldn't help blogging about the Diva Cup because so few women know about it, yet it's so wonderful! I wish I'd known about it 15 years ago. I almost want to give you a money-back guarantee, but would rather not scare myself with how excited I am about the Diva Cup.

In the interest of discretion, I will just point you to the website2 for specifics, but let me tell you that after using the Diva Cup for just three days, I am sold and will never go back! There is a nicely thorough Q & A section on the website that answers the common questions that might pop up in your mind, and I recommend reading over that if you're intrigued but skeptical. My opinion is that the Diva Cup is surprisingly comfortable and easy to use...not to mention worry- and hassle-free.

There is a store locator on the website that can help you find the nearest retailer that sells the Diva Cup. It retails at most stores for $32.50. However, I found a much better deal (the best I could find) at www.iherb.com3 for $18.99 plus $1.50 shipping, for a grand total of $20.49. But, you can get it even cheaper than that—iHerb will give you $5 off if it's your first purchase with them if you type in the code FOF878 at checkout. This is because they started a little rewards program for new referrals to iHerb. And no, I'm not writing this blog for my own benefit. I'm doing it because 1) the Diva Cup is awesome, and 2) you can get it for $16, half the retail price. Think about it—you pay $16 one time for a never-ending solution to your period. That will pay for itself in about two months...and then no more buying inferior menstrual products.

Go ahead, be a Diva!

Links

  1. http://www.divacup.com/
  2. http://www.divacup.com/
  3. http://www.iherb.com/
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Comments

1. Teresa on Jun 13, 08 at 9:32 am

Interesting! I've never heard of such a thing.

2. Sarah on Jul 6, 08 at 11:19 pm

Heather, How are other feminine products considered immoral?

Thanks! Sarah

3. Heather Stein on Jul 7, 08 at 9:41 am

Sarah,

Sorry if that was unclear. By saying that the Diva Cup is a "morally acceptable way of dealing with your period", I was contrasting it to other immoral ways of "dealing" with one's period, such as birth control methods that eliminate a woman's menses. My thinking was that someone could argue, "well, maybe the Diva Cup is more hassle-free than pads or tampons, but I've got an even easier solution - a patch/pill/device that just makes my period go away altogether!"

I hope that clarifies. I wanted to balance ease of use with nature's way of regulating our fertility...that is, we're meant to have a period whenever we're not pregnant or in breastfeeding amhenorrhea.

4. Heather Stein on Jul 12, 08 at 5:31 am

I received an email recently from a Steindom reader about the Diva Cup. Here it is, posted with permission, along with my response:

I read your blog on the diva, and I wanted to ask what you think of the using the Diva with monitoring your fertility with Creighton. Does using the Diva cup interfere with checking for mucus/tracking your fertility?

I think that it would interfere with mucus tracking. So, if you needed to track mucus, I would probably use something else on the light flow days. I am personally not worried about early ovulations and early mucus...if I had any mucus on light flow days, I would just see it whenever my period stopped. Since we are using natural spacing through breastfeeding, I don't worry too much about mucus observations (in other words, I'm willing to let go on this one instance for the convenience of the diva). I think I'm also less concerned about this issue because I track my temperatures as well (we've gone to the sympto-thermal method as it is easier for me to determine return of fertility after extended breastfeeding with the temperature sign added). For someone who needs completely accurate mucus records, though, the Diva is still compatible. She would just need to use conventional means for the last couple days of her cycle...and she would still save money in the long run!

This reader also mentioned that women could use a cloth pantyliner on light days. Here's her comment:

You might want to add a suggestion of a cloth pantyliner. I'm pretty sure I've seen them somewhere. I know you can get reusable cloth pads from Cotton Babies, but, at least on their website, I didn't see anything designed for really light days. I would definitely like to own some for light days because I always end up using a lot of pantyliners (and they would clean up easily).

This is a great suggestion, and I think it could also be used in conjunction with the Diva Cup, especially in the beginning when the learning curve is at its highest.

5. Lisa on Jul 15, 08 at 9:57 pm

Hi Heather..

I just wanted to comment that i have been using a Keeper (similar to diva cup) for over 10 years! IT has not interefered at all with NFP charting/fertility etc...Now that my oldest has her cycle I recently got her a diva cup. IT is just so much safer.

Hope this helps!

Peace Lisa

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