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I have a somewhat funny q. I am planing to try the contraceptive sponge, and I was curious if cervix size of a woman varies by size, haha. Would it have any difference fitting something like the Today Sponge into the cervix of someone who is size 00 juniors in pelvis size? I also fit into children's medium size shorts and am super petite. Is my cervix still the same more or less? Also, another question about the sponge - if I had no symptoms of TSS while wearing tampons for years, does that signal that I am less likely to experience it with the sponge or are those two wholly different things in nature? thanks...
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Date: 2012-02-29 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-29 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 03:38 am (UTC)Parity has a bigger impact on the size of menstrual cup and diaphragm than body size. I assume the same would be said for contraceptive sponges.
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Date: 2012-02-29 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-29 09:48 pm (UTC)Yes, cervices can vary in size from woman to woman but as others have said, it has more to do with previous child-birthing experience and nothing to do with your waist size.
Good luck!
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Date: 2012-02-29 09:57 pm (UTC)Personally, the sponge is fun -- but expensive for a single act of sex in 24 hours (which is about all we tend to manage due to The Exhaustions And Interruptions Of Having A Kid), and I pair it with crude calendar method or crude FAM these days because I'm not quite comfortable with its failure rate.
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Date: 2012-02-29 11:13 pm (UTC)The Sponge does not go INto or ONto your cervix at all. It just kinda hangs out in your vaginal canal like a tampon. Instead of absorbing menstrual blood, it both absorbs sperm and imparts spermicide. Google its effective rate. It's not very high.
TSS is a RARE and rather severe infection involving either staph or strep bacteria. Back in the 1980s there was an "outbreak" linked to a certain brand of tampons (which are long gone now.) Nowadays the chance of getting it is 1 in 100,000 -- and that includes those who get it from nasal surgery.
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Date: 2012-03-01 12:22 am (UTC)http://www.plannedparenthood.org/images/PPFA/080000-Sponge-3.gif
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Date: 2012-03-01 12:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 01:19 am (UTC)You're best combining sponge use with a secondary method as back-up -- such as withdrawal -- especially if you're at the most fertile point of your cycle.