We’re excited to welcome Naomi to the DivaCup blog today! Naomi is a musician who plays in a few different bands. As a musician she spends a lot of time on the road, on stage and at band practice and found caring for her period troublesome during these times. That is, until she discovered the DivaCup!
I’m a musician who plays in a few different bands. I’m the only female.
Having my period is annoying enough, but having my period and hanging around a bunch of guys is even more annoying. Thankfully, they’re all mature enough to handle a girl on her flow, and they’re even pretty sympathetic when I’m not feeling the greatest when Aunt Flow is being painful.
Though I have some pretty great guys in my life, it’s still a little awkward having to get up from the band meeting and lug my purse to the bathroom when it’s time to change a tampon. I don’t think anyone should be ashamed of their period, but sometimes I just like to keep matters private. But, the ‘lugging your purse to the bathroom is always the tell tale sign of ‘what’s going on’!
Or even worse – when I’m having practice at one of the guy’s house and his bathroom doesn’t have a garbage can! What’s a girl to do with her womanly mess? Ugh. And then there’s the actual act of performing on stage. Sometimes my period brings me a lot of pain. It’s hard enough trying to look like you’re having a good time on stage with the cramps, let alone hoping my tampon will hold up since I didn’t have time to change it before I went on stage.
It’s always a little embarrassing when I have to pull the vehicle over at every other gas station just to take care of business:
But you just peed!
Sorry guys, I have a heavy flow and my super duty tampon isn’t cutting it. Can you pass my backpack? I need to get my tampons and a new set of underwear, is that cool?
Ugh. Yeah, NOT happening!
All of these things are no longer a worry. I’ve had the DivaCup for two cycles. The first cycle was a struggle using it, but I was determined to make it work. My second cycle rolled around and the DivaCup and I are now best friends!
I’ve always been a little private about my period, but I love this thing so much I’m almost tempted to shout from my microphone – “Hey, girls! You’ve gotta try this!!”
Everything is so much better with the DivaCup. Going to see live shows is so much better when you don’t have to carry a purse around with tampons or pads. Being able to keep up with the guys and playing music is so much easier. Going 4-wheeling and hiking doesn’t even take a second thought.
I just wish I would have found out about the DivaCup sooner!
Naomi H
Naomi writes, records and plays music, shoots photography on the side and has an awesome active life with my husband and bulldog.
