What is Menstrual Health?

Menstrual Health is more than "just" the days of bleeding. Our menstruation is our Fertility. Having fertility awareness provides a means for preventing AND achieving pregnancy. Our fertility cycle provides insight into our well being. Including our emotional well being. 

How are we introducing our girl childs to  their coming blood time? Pride or Shame?

Because of our mense, which occurs 12-16 days AFTER ovulation, we sustain human beings through birth.

Ovulation=release of the egg from the ovary, to traverse the fallopian tubes and the uterus. This is the time sperm can merge with the egg, implant in uterus, and grow a human.

Fertility Awareness-tracking our bodies for signs of ovulation, and abstaining from intercourse, can prevent pregnancy.

Now, of course, this takes cooperation from men.

But, still, if a woman knows her fertility times AND she knows early earliest signs of pregnancy, then she has the ability to abort the conception. If there is access to birth control pills, then one has an alternative to Plan B ( Levonorgestrel can prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex. People sometimes call it the "morning after pill."). Prior to Plan B, clinicians used to prescribe taking a certain number of birth control pills, which acted to prevent ovulation https://www.verywellhealth.com/the-history-of-emergency-contraception-906714 (0.25 mg of levonorgestrel and 0.05 mg of ethinyl estradiol=Ovral, Lo/Ovral, Nordette, Levlen, Triphasil, and Tri-Levlen). OK, women, study and KNOW this info and do not use indiscriminately and hurt yourself.

Women need to study to learn the details. Find knowledgeable midwives, healers, doctors who are supportive. Study here also: http://www.sisterzeus.com/ 

menstrual extraction (ME) "a powerful example of medical research done by women on and for ourselves." As the safest and most effective of the techniques that can be performed on women by women, independently of any legal restrictions that may be imposed on doctors in the coming months and years, menstrual extraction is today at the center of the raging abortion debate, serving both symbolically and practically as the line of first defense against recent rollbacks of women's reproductive rights in the nation's courts.  https://www.sevenstories.com/books/2847-a-woman-s-book-of-choices

STUDY

Sevenstories site does not sell the book, but I see it is available from (yuck) Amazon. 

As a clinician who provided home abortions, and was consulted by women and informed by women who used alternative methods of self abortions. Herbs, spiritual intention, masturbating until the uterus released the contents.

There has always been and is re emerging pockets providing Sacred Rites of Passage from girlhood to womanhood with onset of mense. In USA mother's are celebrating their girl child's rite of passage in various ways: shopping spree with meals eaten at restaurants to wilderness settings with group rituals.

OH MY, just googled searched "girls rite of passage to womanhood" and there is now a proliferation of books and youtube video's. This shows 400 girls, historically who would have had genital mutilation, are now celebrated as sacred and left intact!!

Stand straight! Breath deep! Be humble and full of pride for being a woman.