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If you've recently started Hello Cup life (welcome!), here's everything you need to know to master menstrual cup life. Inserting, removing, cleaning. We've got it here.

Periods are often perceived to be something only females experience but not everyone who has a period is female (and not all females have periods) and Rain Dove, whose preferred pronoun is ‘they’, illustrates this perfectly via their now infamous Instagram post.

Join us this Pride Month in changing the conversation.

Author of The Period Repair Manual, Lara Briden, shares her wisdom on the relationship between irregular periods and an underactive thyroid. Thank you to Lara Briden for allowing us to share her blog!

The first Sunday in May marks Mother's Day in Hello's home country, New Zealand. For this Mother's Day, Hello Co-Founder and mum, Robyn, shares her story on motherhood and why she and fellow-mum, Mary, started The Hello Cup.

A menstrual cycle is, by definition, an ovulatory cycle in which ovulation is the main event and progesterone is made.

Any other kind of bleed is either the breakthrough bleed of an anovulatory cycle or a pill-bleed, which are not real menstrual cycles. 

For more from Lara, head to www.larabriden.com or follow her on Instagram.

Do women need periods? Guest blog for The Hello Cup by Lara Briden, period revolutionary, naturopathic doctor and author.

Let's take a look at a natural period, vs a bleed on hormonal birth control. How are they different? Do we need a period at all?

Why getting B Corp certification was important (and what the hell is a B Corp anyway?) Hello Cup recently received B Corp certification - something we're bloody proud of. Find out what B Corp companies are all about, and how a company becomes a B Corp, in our latest blog.

It’s official – we’ve reached a huge menstrual milestone. Hello Cup has saved more than 200 million single-use sanitary items from landfills and waterways across the globe.

Your period is so much more than a monthly bleed; it is giving you valuable information about your health.

The color, consistency, pain, length & emotions that arise are all indicators of your hormonal balance.

Know your period - and identify the difference between common & normal. 

Hello Cup Co-Founder, Robyn, recently wrote a feature for Woman Mag NZ about the stigma that still exists when it comes to 'period chat' and the need to break the cycle of period shame - one menstrual cup at a time.

Take a read of her article here. 

Feeling a little nervous about using your menstrual cup for the first time? Our step-by-step guide will have you feeling like a menstrual cup pro in no time!

Positioning my menstrual cup is just a case of fold, insert, pop in, et voila! Isn’t it?

Well, yes, and sometimes no. Read our blog to find out all about how to position your Hello Cup, how to measure your cervix, and how to find the best menstrual cup for you.