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Open thread: On first periods

My monthly menstrual musings may have misled many of my much-beloved readers. I was not always as forthright as I am now — to put it mildly — and my willingness to talk about menstruation here, and elsewhere online and other feminist-dominated spaces1, doesn’t mean I don’t (or rather, didn’t when it was applicable) buy [...]

Just another period post

My breasts ache.

The Boychick hadn’t nursed in two weeks, then asked for milk again one morning. He latched on for half a minute each side, as much as I could stand, as little as I could stand to offer him.

I thought that was why my breasts were aching.

Might it be…? It couldn’t be. I’m sure [...]

Two whispered words

It’s a phrase inevitably whispered, two words to strike fear and hope and the embodiment of ambivalence: “I’m late.” It simply must be whispered, voice low but weighty, urgent, breathy, breathlessly.

But Wordpress doesn’t do “whisper”, so: I’m late.

…to blog about my period. Two whole days. I know, you’re shocked and disappointed in me that I [...]

It all falls down

For the 20th time since the Boychick was born, my uterus sheds its endometrial lining. For the 20th time since the Boychick was born, it all slides down my vagina, falls between my lips, is absorbed by the cloth between my legs. I’ve talked about that before.

Here’s what I don’t talk about: all month, all [...]

23 days later

23 days later is a lot more ominous in the world of menstruation than 28 days later.

It figures: the one month we don’t chart at all (blame The Man needing to go on antibiotics for 10 days, and my laziness) is the one month my body up and decides to do something FUCKING WEIRD. Like [...]

Scarlet Saturday

(I almost put off writing this a day, just so I could title it Sunday Bloody Sunday. But I was afraid of a general reader revolt, especially after last month’s entry.)

Anyway.

It’s time for my monthly musings on menstruation. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to write about this time: I’ve done charting and FAM to death, [...]

Hello dark red, my old friend

Hello dark red, my old friend
I see you’ve come from me again
Because the lining of my womb’s seeping
From my cunt while I was sleeping
And the staining that was planted in my bed
Is dark red
All thanks to menstruation

In restless dreams I bleed alone
Tampons, pads, on cobblestones
Neath the halo of a bathroom lamp
I feel my vulva all [...]

Another month, another menstrual cycle

Yes, it’s that time again, when my uterus sloughs its lining, declaring another month passed, preparing for another month to come.

I thought I’d take this opportunity to talk about why I titled the category under which Menstruation falls Body rather than “Health”: it’s because what I want to talk about here, what I do talk [...]

Neither monsters nor martyrs be: lessons on motherhood from my menstrual cycle

Thanks to the science of charting, I knew enough to pull on my red undies this morning, and toss a couple pads in my bag before heading out for a day on the town. Sure enough, my flow showed as predicted, and I was pleased to be prepared, even if for once I was hoping [...]

28 day cycle! And let’s talk about sex

(But no, I didn’t ovulate on day 14. Interesting factoid: the cycle I did finally conceive the Boychick, I not only ovulated on day 14, but then birthed him at 40w9d, which is the actual average length of gestation for a spontaneous labor in a primipara. He was a by the book baby!)

So I [...]

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