A cup half full!
"Why don't you use a menstrual cup?" my Mom, with her blatantly blunt way of hitting the nail in the head once asked me. That was the day when I actually introspected- yes, why don't I? I had known all about the cup since a long time- I'd first come across it when I was researching endometrial stem cells a few years ago... I knew its benefits, and I did, in theory, support the fact that it was an ecologically viable alternative to minimise the biomedical waste sanitary napkins generate... I had encouraged a few patients who'd asked me my opinion on it to go ahead and use it too.. Yet I didn't use it myself! Why was that? There was only one answer to this question- a question I had conveniently disregarded till now! Just like most Indian women, I was uncomfortable handling my own genitals when I was on my period! Yes, that's right! I, a gynaecologist, whose life literally revolves around the female genitalia, felt squeamish in putting in a m...