Confused By So Many Options?

With so many absorbency levels to choose from we thought it would be helpful to create a little guide!
We distinguish between liners and pads. Therefore petite liners, pantyliners and thong liners are intended for use on light days, slight discharge or as back up to cups.
They will most likely not be completely sufficient for moderate incontinence or heavier menstruation days.
While on first glance it looks like we offer simply 4 different absorbency levels in the pads we want you to be aware that you are actually also looking at two different designs. Pads without the 'extra' specification have the same absorbency level throughout the whole pad. Pads with the 'extra' specification have an additional layer of absorbent material directly in the center of the pad.
For example a heavy absorbency pad may be more appropriate (or vice versa) in some situations than a medium extra simple based on your specific flow pattern.
These vary by individual as well as situation:
Sitting all day in the office? A medium extra with extra absorbency right in the center and trimmer/thinner ends may be perfect!
Looking for a pad to sleep in? The heavy with equally strong absorbent layers front to back may be your best choice.
As always if you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact me through the website!

Design Change to Liners

Based on customer feedback we decided to make a small design change to the pantyliners and petite liners. You've asked for trimmer, thinner liners and here they are!


This design change affects only petite liners and pantyliners. Our thong liners are a different design all together and will not be affected by this change.
What in particular has changed?
Our pantyliners still consist of 1 top layer, 1 absorbent bamboo blend layer and 1 color coding layer to make it easy to tell all of your pads apart.
We have changed the type of bamboo blend layer we are using and also have chosen a different fabric for our color coding layer.
This change has resulted in a significantly thinner pad and we hope the new design finds your approval!

We have a small number of ready to ship pantyliners and petite liners available on closeout sale on our Facebook Page for 30% off!

Red Eye - White Eye - do you know why it's important?

I wanted to share this adorable picture of baby Charlotte with you. Her mom, Sara, gave me permission to post it in hopes of spreading awareness of an easy to detect childhood cancer called Retinoblastoma. She wrote more about it here on her blog:
Sara's Blog
What makes this cancer different is that we have a tool in our homes that can detect a typical symptom early on: a camera!
Since the tumor is inside the eye it affects how light from the flash of a camera is reflected back in low light conditions. Normally we get that red-eye effect due to the blood vessels in the back of the eye. In an eye affected by Retinoblastoma however, that reflection in white.
Knowing this information you can easily detect by looking at Charlotte's picture, which eye is affected by Retinoblastoma and which eye is healthy.

On a technical note: some cameras digitally alter the color in a process called red-eye-reduction and pictures may appear to show white eyes due to that digital alteration. If your camera offers red-eye-reduction, please turn it off, if you are trying to take a picture for this purpose.

Labor Day Sale

If you have been holding off for a great coupon code to try Domino Pads, your time has come!
From now until midnight on Monday you may use the coupon code LDAY for an additional 10% off anything on our site even already discounted items such as package deals and starter kits.
The coupon code is NOT retroactive, meaning it is only applied to orders being placed this weekend - not orders that have been placed in the past.

Thanks and spread the word!

Book Review: Period. A Girl's Guide

If you have visited our restructured website recently you may have seen our book page. I am in the process of working my way through quite a few books on the subject of menstruation.
Funny how something we usually try not to think about too much can be so interesting once you pay attention to it!
I am starting my book review with a book aimed at young girls and her parents.
My own daughter is only 3 but we get quite a few inquiries for pad sets for teenagers.
And what a great idea! Why not start out with your very own set of beautiful, comfortable, reusable menstrual products.
So I started researching book for young girls on this topic and found my favorite in this one:
Period. A Girl’s Guide by JoAnn Loulan and Bonnie Worthern
The book itself is divided into two parts. The main part is the Girl’s Guide to Menstruation, the second part is the Parent’s Guide.
The Girl’s Guide includes illustrations and a glossary with pronunciation instructions. Right from the start the book puts great emphasis on how we are all different and that it is perfectly fine this way. The authors foster a positive body image without placing too much emphasis on external things.
The tone of the book is gentle and informative. It is not the funniest or most excitingly illustrated book I’ve ever read on the subject but what makes it more desirable to me than other books with the same target audience is that it completely leaves out sex education, giving the parent an opportunity to broach that subject on their own terms.
As you can imagine the chapter I am most critical about is the chapter on menstrual products. Of course the focus is on disposable materials. Worse though it starts of with a sanitary belt implying that ‘maybe your mother wore one, but most certainly your grandmother did’.
I think it’s time to edit that out of the next version. I am almost 40 years old and I am certain that not even my grandmother wore a sanitary belt.
It came as a pleasant surprise that the authors in fact did mention –ever so briefly- that some people preferred to use reusable pads and cups because they felt they were better for the environment and better for their bodies.
They also included some natural remedies to ease menstrual discomfort and a calendar section.
Despite its few shortcomings I found it to be the best book on menstruation for girls in that age range of 9 to 12 I have seen so far.
(I liked it so well I decided to offer it as an add-on option to our gift sets).
If you are interested in other books on the subject I have created a summary book page on our website www.DominoPads.com.

The next review will be on a book for older girls and women: My Little Red Book

Opt-Out of Freebies Option

Excited about the new website design I have been playing around with the flower image. I ended up crafting some Domino Pads glass magnets and clearly I want to bestow these little glass pieces upon my Domino Pads customers!
I used really good magnets because I hate getting some promotional magnetic thing and it not holding even a postage stamp. Who wants to pick up stuff in front of the fridge all the time? So rest assured our Domino Pads glass magnets are unsurpassed as far as usability goes!
BUT: I know how it is with trying to avoid the accumulation of unnecessary stuff. I am giving you the option to opt out of freebies.
On our shopping site we have the 'Free with Purchase' section where you can select a free sample with your order (wipes, tea, soap or one of our new glass magnets). Now you can also choose the option 'Do not include any freebies' to specify that you not only don't want to pick a sample but also really do not wish to be surprised with any freebies in your package.
I hope that this solution will work out well for everybody: those that want a specific sample, those that don't mind me sending them one of my crafty little magnets and those that really want to avoid getting any unnecessary trinket of any kind.

A Second Chance to Enter The Giveaway!

Okay I had a couple of people tell me that it is WAAAY too hard to get the answer to #5 on the Giveaway so here's a second chance entry. And it also counts for those that already submitted the correct answer as well so you will have TWO entries if you get both:

Go to our Facebook Page. Go to the Discussions section and PARTICIPATE!

Then submit the following via email to me at karin@dominopads.com

1) your name

2) your email address

3) what cup size and color you'd like if you win

4) why you *need* a cup

and

5) what discussion you contributed to

Easy enough? ;)

Another Lunette Giveaway

With the release of the new Lunette cup in coral we should really do one last Lunette Giveaway this year, don't you think?

Since coral is related to the ocean, let's stick with a marine theme:

To enter please submit via email to karin@dominopads.com:

1) your name
2) your email address
3) what cup size and color you'd like if you win
4) why you *need* a cup
and
5) what purpose were the seahorse Domino Pads made for?

You will find the answer to #5 on our brand new website www.DominoPads.com

IMPORTANT: Don't post your answer in the comment section!

I will draw the winner September 6th.

Good Luck!

Special Edition Pads Available Now

For a limited time we are offering pads and pantyliners made with Robert Kaufman's Minky in Asian Paisley Topaz. While supplies last only.

You can find them in our Domino Pads Minkee Section here: http://www.dominopads.com/store.php?crn=238

How did you become interested in cloth pads?

I think when people think about others using cloth pads the first thing that comes to mind is a dedication to the environment.
Of course that is a valid reason.

According to the last data I saw on this subject U.S. women landfill or incinerate 11.3 billion disposable menstrual products per year.

What many people are not aware of is that reusable menstrual products are not just better for the planet but also are more comfortable to wear. Many women report shorter, milder periods once they discontinue the use of disposable menstrual products that have been bleached and contain synthetic gelling crystals.

In fact that's how I came to use cloth pads. Six years ago shortly before my son, Duncan, was born I had collected a nice stash of cloth diapers for him. Duncan was our first child and much research went into how we wanted to welcome him into this world (he was born at home with midwives), how we wanted to raise him (practice attachment parenting) and what products we would want to use (environmentally friendly and safe for his body).

Duncan was born at home and while the birth was the wonderful experience we had been hoping for, the recovery was anything but. I had a small tear. Nothing major.

Duncan was a big baby at 23 inches and nearly 10 pounds. He was nursing for 45 minutes at a time with little breaks in between. We were still practicing our latch on so nursing laying down wasn't yet an option.

Sitting up was extremely painful though. I felt like the wimpiest new mother in the world. How could others give birth and immediately go back to normal activities when I was barely able to sit to nurse my child?

Then one day I decided to use the inserts I had made for Duncan (to protect his cloth diapers from meconium stains in the early days) as menstrual pads.

The difference was immediately noticeable. I felt so much better. The soreness was gone. It was fantastic.

For the next birth - my daughter, Annika - I used cloth pads exclusively and was finally able to really enjoy my babymoon, be back to normal activities within hours of her birth and not be miserable for weeks like I was after my first birth. It was so much more enjoyable!

I wish I had known that much of my postpartum discomfort after my first child was due to a sensitivity to the drying/gelling crystals in disposable menstrual products. I could have spared myself weeks of misery.

A lot of times when I tell people what I do for a living they view me as ueber-crunchy. How crazy do you have to be to want to wash and reuse menstrual pads? Sure they like to recycle and compost but having to deal with menstrual products is just a little more than what they want to to for the environment. In my opinion it's very possible that cloth pads are one of those 'green' things that makes your life easier and more comfortable though - just the opposite of the sacrifice people expect it to be.

How did you become interested in cloth pads?

New Giveaway/New Product/ New Freebie!

We are introducing a new product at Domino Pads:
Pad Envelopes!

Not sure when to expect your period?
Keep a pad in your backpack or purse, securely stored in our pad envelope. The envelopes hold one regular sized pad and are made from sandwich PUL so they are discreet, durable, easy care and spill proof (in case you are using your purse as a carry all for your kids snacks and water bottles like I do)

So what about these?

1. you can purchase one in our wetbag section
2. you can get one for free with any pad purchase of $75 or more!
3. you can win one as part of our new giveaway

For the month of July our giveaway will center around storage solutions for pads. Who can enter? Anybody who needs to store Domino Pads! So if you already own Domino Pads or have some on order - this Giveaway is for you!

What are the prizes?

1. First Prize: Dual Batik Wetbag of your choice
2. Second Prize: Pad Envelope
3. Third Prize: Pad Envelope

How to enter? Email me at karin@dominopads.com with the following information:

• your name
• your email so I can contact you
• what material Domino Pads do you own or have on order (bamboo - natural or hand dyed, minkee, silkee)

That's it. We are accepting entries until August 5th. Winners will be drawn August 6th

FREE Wipes!

For a limited time we are giving away free Lunette wipes with Lunette cup purchase - a $4.99 value!

The wipes are a great way to disinfect the cup before your period or after when you get ready to store it away.

A word of caution: if you are like me and don't bother with instructions you may be tempted to mistake these as personal hygiene wipes... DON'T!

Let's just say it's beyond refreshing if you try ;) - these wipes are for the cup only!

To get your free box of wipes when you order your new Lunette cup or Lunette Starter Pack simply add a box of wipes from the separate listing to your shopping cart and enter the coupon code FREEWIPES.

Please note: There's an option to add wipes to your cup order by checking a box underneath the cup choices- this will NOT work with the coupon code so in order to use the coupon code you will need to add the wipes from their separate listing