How (and When) to Make a Baby
According to this article, a surprising number of women seeking infertility care don't know when to effectively focus their efforts. Australian researcher (and SMCR member) Kerry Hampton asked women seeking infertility advice about the normal ovulatory menstrual...
Dia de los Muertos Cloth Menstrual Pads
For your seasonal pleasure, I bring you cloth menstrual pads decorated with Dia de los Muertos motifs (with thanks to Lisa, one of my Women's & Gender Studies alumnae). These handmade pads are available at Etsy (of course!), either individually or as a set with...
Laughing AT Us
I don’t know how it happened, but somehow, I missed the viral web-based marketing campaign “Men with Cramps” launched in 2006 by Dandelion for P&G’s ThermaCare. (Dandelion, by the way, calls themselves a "brand-sponsored storytelling company". I. Am. Not....
Who in their right mind wants to read about menstruation?!?
Well, we do, of course. But the editors of Redbook magazine assume that the topic is not of even the slightest interest to their readers. The clipping at the left is from the November, 2009, issue, which I found at my neighborhood laundromat. It's from a larger...
Pyrrhic Victory for Prempro Users
Connie Barton, an Illinois woman who developed breast cancer after taking Prempro for menopausal symptoms, was awarded punitive damages by a jury in Philadelphia yesterday. The jury has already awarded her $3.7 million in compensatory damages, back in September, but...
World Menopause Day
We're a week late in commemorating World Menopause Day here at re:Cycling. Sounds like a holiday right up there with Menstrual Monday, but it doesn't sound very celebratory, from what I can discern. I discovered World Menopause Day, observed annually on October 18,...
