My cup run-eth over and we gotta get home, soon. We're living in dangerous times, you guys.
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Hello friends and welcome to another video. This week I'm coming back at ya with another period video.
That's right, the period videos are back! We missed last month because I tried something for a couple of days and it didn't really work out for me
And then there was this added part where it wasn't really FDA approved
In fact it was it was like FDA like NOT approved and then I was like, "Maybe we should just SCRAP IT"
This month- week, this week we're going to be taking on THE DIVA CUP.
I've heard a lot about the Diva Cup. I, in fact have made other people try it for a video before,
but I've never gotten to try this or any other menstrual cup myself.
So we're going to dive right in.
So a diva cup is basically like a silicone cup that you fold up, shove up, and then it will catch the blood, it will the catch the fall.
And then once it's filled up, you take it out, dump it out, rinse it out and you can use it again.
You can leave it up in there 12 hours,
It's like more eco-friendly
As a tampon girl I'm pretty excited about the idea of a different kind of period product that's also internal.
I really liked certain aspects of the period panty that I tried a couple months ago but the worst part by far was the squish.
Like the feeling of the drop and so anything that can catch the blood before that happens, I'm interested to try.
Once again, it is day 1 of my period and you guys might know that my period is 7 days long.
So tonight's test will be sleeping in it and seeing if they were any leaks, and then tomorrow is Day 2, of course
So that will be an exciting day. Day 2 is always
Abundant.
I'm excited to see if the Diva Cup and I can become friends... this week.
So I'm gonna take my Diva Cup out of its box and we're gonna get more involved in a different type of box.
I'm sorry
I didn't wanna say my box but...
So I have my little Diva
Cup here. Um, it's pretty squishy. It's not too big, it looked bigger in the box for some reason.
It's got the 'Diva Cup' engraved right here
And then it has like a little sort of measuring lines to see how many ounces of blood you produced.
So from the box, it's says that there are 2 different types of ways to fold this
The first one is like: this. I don't know if you guys can that, where it's like you fold
the front and you kinda close. and then the second one is like you fully taco it.
The full taco seems like the one that makes the most sense to me, so...
frickin hold it like that.
The instructions say to wash this and your hands, so we're gonna do that
and then we're gonna head right into it. Wish me luck.
I'm (pause) gonna put you right here.
Alright, so that wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be. I can definitely tell where it is kind of.
But it doesn't feel too uncomfortable
But I'm kinda like movin' around, gyrating, tryna let it settle in.
I actually feel pretty secure, so - well, I actually have no idea. I dont know I just said that
I am setting the towel down cause I am a little bit nervous, so I'm just playing it safe.
Goodnight and good luck (pause) to me
Okay well it looks like it's all clear on my end
The morning of day two I was pretty groggy, so what I was saying in the vlogs was pretty incoherent
It does feel not super dry, it definitely feel a bit like moisture down there
What I meant was that
there weren't any leaks on the towel overnight
But when I woke up I did feel like not completely dry... downstairs
I'm also having the weirdest sensation of little bubbles.
I don't really know how else to say that.
But just like, little bubbles.
And then when I stood up and started walking around,
I actually felt a couple of air bubbles kind of escape from the cup
Yea, I'm gonna hop in the shower.
Wake myself up.
I'm up and at 'em , everything is sort of where it's supposed to be now
After about... fifteen to twenty minutes of wrestling
{pause}
...with the cup.
So, I tried to take the diva cup out in the shower
Because I heard that if you can change it
In & out of the shower
It's pretty ideal
And then I Captain Morgan-ed it
And then I tried to grab it by the little stem
I could find the stem, but I could not get it out.
Standing up
At all
So then I went to take it out over the toilet
Taking it out was definitely an ordeal
It's just, it's difficult to really get a good grip on that nub
And once you do have a good grip on it, you have to take it out all the way in like one motion
Cause if you let go of the nub, or like take a rest
It will just scoop back on up there
It'll just be like [weird-vacuum noise??]
It kinda takes a decent amount of... of hand-strength, to be honest
But actually getting it back in wasn't too bad..
It's supposed to be fine for twelve hours
So after all the time it took this morning, you do get a good pay-off of like "oh you really don't have to..
...do it again for a while."
So once everything was stowed away
I had a pretty uneventful day.
Like I
was doing some editing, I ran a few errands
I just kind of forgot about it
And I didn't really feel anything
I didn't really like have any concerns until of full twelve hours later, when I felt the air bubbles returned
Okay, you guys
It's 10.30 at night
I think earlier I said that there was like bubbles happening
And some just kind of emerge
And I think that means that it's starting to leak
I think that means that I'm losing suction
Okay, I'm home now
So, nothing terrible happened
Um...
It definitely leaked, though
Like, after the bubbling, I kinda felt... the sqealch...
It's not like really running, but it's definitely time to change it out
I was impressed by longevity of the coverage, tho today
There was a lot of time today when I was flying high and like not really worrying about my period
So, that's pretty cool
Um, I slept in a little bit
But still didn't leak, so thats awesome
Left the towel down last night again just in case, but we are all clear
All quiet, on the downstairs front.
So I actually managed to take it out without um... dumping it out immediantly
So I saw...
like, it filled
A cup doesn't absorb your blood, it just catches it
So you do get to get a good look at it which is kind of a weird experience
But it was still disconcerting to see
It was just like
"Oh! Okay!"
So, I'm gonna workout with my diva cup
We're gonna go on a hike right now
We're gonna see, I dunno
if anything weird happens...
If.. it shifts around during flight
Yeah, the box says "Ultimate freedom, enjoy all daily activities: yoga, swimming, dancing, camping, even extreme sports and more!"
Okay, so, hiking should be fine
So while I was hiking, things were going pretty well
Going up was great, and then
coming back down was... there was just like two
times where I was like: "Oh!"
Tyler: It was little extra gravity
Like, just the bubbles
It's almost the air-pressure changed
A couple of air bubbles escaped... again
I think on day 2, the air bubbles escaping
kind of meant that the cup was filled up
But, on day 3 it felt more like
things were just jostling around
I think this could also just be like growing pains
like I'm getting used to the cup, or the cup's getting used to me
I would say like exercising like
like 9 out of 10
Obviously we didn't run, but we were like hiking
Y'know, we were like *stomping sounds*
So, in between uses of the diva cup
you are supposed to remove it and wash it with mild soap
and then, you can pretty much just re-use it right then and there
But it does say that you can boil it as needed
Tyler, will you do the honors of holding this camera while this process happens
As needed, it may be boiled for 5 to 10 minutes
in an open pot with plenty of water
Tyler: Why is it 'as needed' right now?
I don't know
Do not leave boiling pot unattended
If you accidentally burn your cup
Your cup may be ruined
Safiya: I'm nervous. Okay.
Safiya: Can you see it?
Tyler: Hello, Diva cup, are you in there?
Alright. 5 minutes. Let's do 5 minutes
just to be on the safe side
cause once it's being boiled, it's like *noises*
like goodbye germs. Y'know.
Ok. Turning it off. Alright.
Tyler: It's not melted
Safiya: No, it's... looks okay.
Yeah, I'm gonna let it cool down, and then we're gonna
Get back to business
I feel good actually
I'm actually really glad that we did that
because it was little weird to me that you could just like oh!
rinse it out with a little bit of soap, and just pop it right back in
like I was like wanting to clean up more
so this makes me feel better
So day 5 rolls around
and something that I've always wondered
and I've heard other people express this concern too
is if you were ever upside-down
with the diva cup
would the blood just trickle back up?
So I decided to y'know do a little
upside down action
and see if I could feel anything happening.
Tyler: That's pretty good.
Tyler: You feel anything?
No.
Tyler: You feeling anything now?
Safiya: No
The thing is you can't really feel it dropping into the cup
so maybe it was trickling back up but I don't think you'd be able to feel it.
I think it's fine, honestly you guys. I think this part is fine.
One of the advantages of the Diva Cup for me was that you could leave it in for 12 hours.
I kind of got away with not changing it outside of my house
for the whole week, up until day 6.
I wanted to try and change my Diva Cup
in a different environment, like not just at my house
but all day I've been looking in the bathrooms in places I've been
and none of them are single-stall bathrooms they're all, like, multiple-stall bathrooms.
There's a little bit of a trip you have to do between the toilet and the sink and then back to the toilet
And I don't really feel that comfortable doing it in a multiple-stall bathroom.
I'm just gonna wait till I get home.
The idea of having to change it in public without having access to a single-stall bathroom just makes me nervous.
You could probably do it if you were super sneaky but I would be like *uncomfortable noises*
So it's day 7, and day 6 and 7 for me are really just like spotting and light-flow days
and so when I took out my Diva Cup this morning there wasn't really much to speak of in there.
So I decided to go without the cup today.
I think on earlier days of your period when the Diva Cup can really soar
it made sense to use it.
But then on later flow days when you're really just spotting or not bleeding very much
going through the drama of putting it in and taking it out doesn't really make sense to me.
And I decided to wear my Thinx Period Thong from last time I did a period video
You know, you can just sort of throw on the period thong,
catch whatever's left, and not have to worry about like, messing around.
Overall, I did like the Diva Cup.
I do think the Diva Cup and I became friends over the course of this week.
My favorite part by far is when it's doing it's thing
like when it's already up there and you can just leave it up there for 12 hours.
Like I kind of forgot about it for a while, and I wasn't really worrying about it because you can leave it up there for longer.
So, there was a peace of mind element to this.
I wouldn't really blame the leaking incident on the cup,
I think the cup was literally like, "hey I last for 12 hours"
and then 12 hours later it was like, "12 hours"
and I was like, "noted."
I'm pretty sure that period odors appear when your period blood hits the air,
so you don't smell anything unless you leak.
I also thought that it was pretty easy to clean, pretty easy to boil, I boiled it twice at this point
and, like, seems pretty much the same, you just gotta watch it and make sure you don't actually just burn it to a crisp.
My only issue with it is just, like, the learning curve and also just, like, the drama surrounding putting it in and taking it out.
It's just, it's still a little difficult for me.
I actually do think I would use it again
Like I'm pretty down for it.
I'll just have to practice.
It's not that easy. But once it's there, then life is easy.
Until you gotta take it out again.
Thank you guys so much for watching
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