Carefree is now offering a new pantiliner for your light days or as a backup for your tampon or menstrual cup. Imagine the protection of a pad but with the light, un-bulky fit of a pantiliner. Welcome to Carefree’s new Ultra Protection Liners. What are the benefits to this new liner?

• Offers 10x more absorbency than an regular liner
• Wings to keep it in place
• Thin and flexible for comfort
• Odor control for freshness

But that’s not the only thing Carefree is up to lately.

Carefree has partnered with First30Days.com (a site I’ve used!) to offer women a chance at a Fresh Start. It’s called the Fresh Start fund.

Three winners will receive $10000, $5000 and $3000 to begin their Fresh Start. Ooh.

What would I do with that money to give myself, my family, a Fresh Start? I can think of many things that have a selfish slant, of course. However, if I really go with the whole “Fresh Start” theme, I’d love to start a non-profit for mothers who have relinquished their children for adoption, both those who chose the path voluntarily at birth and those who were forced to do so by the state, to help them with their Fresh Start.

I wasn’t offered such a thing in the aftermath of my daughter’s adoption. I may have chosen for her to be placed with another family as I felt unable to provide for her due to a complicated pregnancy that left me on bed rest at 18 weeks but that didn’t mean that the decision didn’t leave me emotionally paralyzed. I did move to a new location to get that “feeling” of a fresh start but I was unable to find the motivation to get up and going for awhile. Even then, when I was beginning my career and working toward things that I now know to be parts of my life, I was emotionally cut off from the world for quite some time. I am thankful that I had people in my life who were patient and waited for me to make my way through the muck and mire of that time period, but I can’t help but wonder how the transition would have been made easier if someone, anyone, had offered help. Due to the ethical problems with adoption agencies in this era, parents who have just placed a child are all too often not offered long-term counseling, given an explanation of the grief process or shown resources which they can use to get on their feet. I know that if mothers were given a true, supported Fresh Start, they might begin to feel sooner than I did and, as such, heal sooner than I did. Funding, of course, is necessary because we need to be able to find counselors/therapists who actually have experience in this area. We also need to get together a grief workbook as the existing ones talk about grief as it relates to death; we deal with a different form of grief though the process is similar. As such, the wording needs to be different.

Do you think you have a good Fresh Start idea? Simply visit Carefree’s Fresh Start site and share why they want a fresh start, plans for reaching their goal, and how the funding could help. Maybe you can see your Fresh Start dreams come true. (Let us know if you do!)

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[Thanks to Mom Central for letting us know good things for women.]