Lunapads Blog

While I’m not sure where that phrase originally came from, it seemed like an appropriate title for my entry this month. At 37 weeks pregnant (I’m 20 weeks in this picture) with less than 3 to go, I have finally found some time to reflect as this pregnancy winds to a close. It is so true that with your second pregnancy, things seem to happen quickly and rather unconsciously. Juggling the demands of running a business, volunteer commitments and keeping a preschooler occupied, fed, and happy means the pregnancy doesn’t get the attention it did the first time. Of course all the milestones during this pregnancy were important (like getting past the first trimester without miscarrying, hearing the heartbeat, etc.) but there hasn’t been much time to just reflect on how life will change in a few weeks.

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A confession: I haven’t had my period for almost 2 years. Between a pregnancy and nursing, it’s been strangely absent for a person who sells menstrual products for a living. But just the other day when I was doing some sewing (my favourite hobby – a happy coincidence, it strikes me) danged if I didn’t get that funny sinking kind of feeling and there was my period, simple as that. The funny thing is that I happened to have not only a Lunapad (a long pantyliner that I had taken home to wash and dry to test shrinkage), but also a pair of deluxe Lunapanties (working on some R&D for fit in this case) with me – hooray!

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