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So I'm not pregnant. I was sad about it yesterday but today I'm just appalled at the fact that I am a grown woman who is incapable of not getting menstrual blood all over the bedsheets.

It's worse now that I'm married and share a bed with Adam and sometimes Liam.

Though I guess Liam wets the bed sometimes so we're even.

Seriously, is there some sort of Womanly Lesson my mother forgot to teach me? Not even maternity pads can save me on the first day. :(

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Not sure if you have them where you are but Always Infinity saved me from that. Mine was because I had other issues that was making me bleed heavier than what is normal though. Have you spoken with your Gyno or is this not something new?

I use a menstrual cup and put it in when I think my period is about to start. But I don't bleed heavily anyway, and I'm fairly regular.

If it's feasible at all for you, I do recommend menstrual cups. So much cheaper than pads or tampons, and less waste...

That never happened to me before I had Max. My periods are so much heavier now, wtf.

I'm lucky that I almost never start overnight, but the first day I need to do a tampon/overnight pad combo so I don't bleed through everything.

I wear a pair of my husband's shorts to bed the first few days, so I get those dirty instead of the sheets. It's not just you dude.. I don't feel comfortable wearing a tampon at night, so the gravity works against you on those heavy nights.

I use tampons.. and it is that first night that is usually heaviest, but I haven't bled through underwear to sheets since I was a teen and used pads. (If I started to have that problem, I would probably start using the heavier tampons that first night or double up with both pad and tampon like previous commenter does)

I am a cup user and luckily I get a couple of days of light spotting before my period hits properly... And then I sleep on a folded up towel for the next four or five nights. When I was still at home we had a few old towels that were designated "period towels" - the ones mum, sister and I would sleep on so we didn't have to change the sheets every night!

I must be foul bachelorette frog because I always take a disgusting kind of pride in how much blood I can produce.

That said, I used to wear shorts or track pants to bed. That was a nice solution, and I figure towels would work too.

Or special black sheets. ;)

I sleep on a multi-layered absorbent cotton thing (almost quilted-like?). If you don't like being so "obvious", designated Red Sheet Week? :P

Don't feel bad. I usually sleep with my middle wrapped up in a towel to avoid it. :)

I still get menstrual blood over the bedsheets sometimes sooo....

Solidarity?

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