Moon Cycle

Hello readers! This post may be a bit TMI for some of you. If you get squirmy about periods, then thanks for checking in, but you better check back on the next post. I’ll try to get something up about our apartment mid week to make it up to you.

This post is dedicated to a few special ladies who I know would geek out with me on this:)

I ran out of all the feminine supplies that I brought with me, so this month it was time to experiment. At home I am a dedicated fan of Always, extra heavy, overnight with wings. It’s long, and thin yet super absorbent. What else would I want? So I followed a similar train of thought when searching for supplies here. I grabbed the overnight with wings, and the biggest one they had was 41 centimeters.

When I opened the package and pulled out a pad, my only thought was “Damn!” One individually wrapped pad was about the size of an unopened newborn or maybe pre-me diaper. I reasoned with myself that perhaps the pads here were not folded into thirds. So I opened a pad and it was folded into thirds. This pad is a serious full on lady diaper. I don’t think night leaks would ever be a problem. It goes from nearly the very front to the very back waist line. If I hold one up to my waist it turns the corners on both of my hips. At this point I felt so stereotypically from the United States that I had to laugh at myself. Nope, I never paused to consider how long 41 centimeters might be. My only thought was to find the biggest pad. Hahaha!:) Later I found a more reasonable pad at 29cm. The photo at the bottom shows my favorite pad from the States in orange, and the Korean mega lady diaper. Everything is a surprise when you’re traveling! Thanks for reading:)