Pull and pray. It never resulted in an oopsie baby. Our oopsie baby was from the one time we didn't pull. Really.
After that baby was born I charted and we avoided fertile times, and pulled and prayed.
We TTC and now I'm pregnant with #2.
After this baby I will get an IUD. I would actually like permanent birth control, but DH wants a 3rd kid and I'm not going to pull that off the table without discussing it later in life.
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Post by mamasaurus on Jan 12, 2013 22:21:53 GMT -5
I am breastfeeding and am pretty sure I am not fertile yet. I also use the femcap cervical cap, but I hate it. It is actually painful for me to use, and it doesn't always work right. H is a big baby about condoms, and we don't have any in the house right now, so we've done P&P once.
I used nuvaring for years and loved it, but my doctor thinks hormonal BC was aggravating my IBS, so I am reluctant to resume it.
ETA:
I had many issues with the pill for the couple of years I tried it.
my mom had one of those in her nightstand drawer, but she got mad when she saw me trying to play with it.
I just put that together like 2 years ago.
bwahahaha!
SS here - we're not using anything. We know we want another, and would be okay with them being close together. We aren't TTA or TTC.
ETA: Mamasaurus, I am jealous of every bf'ing mom who hasn't gotten a period yet. I've EBF DS since birth and I got my first period six weeks post partum. SIX WEEKS! My pp bleeding had only stopped for like, four days.
I'm surprised by how many people actually say they're not TTCing, but aren't preventing. I guess like, to me, if you're not AVOIDING, so you're having unprotected sex.. that's basically trying.
That's always a weird distinction to me, too. You've got an 85% chance of getting pregnant within a year of unprotected sex.
I'm surprised by how many people actually say they're not TTCing, but aren't preventing. I guess like, to me, if you're not AVOIDING, so you're having unprotected sex.. that's basically trying.
That's always a weird distinction to me, too. You've got an 85% chance of getting pregnant within a year of unprotected sex.
I guess the distinction for me is that wheen we were TTC, I was charting and peeing on OPKs daily and essentially a nutjob sex zombie. With this approach I am forcing myself to be more relaxed. Does that make sense?
I also came back in to say KA's post is just not getting the recognition it deserves.
We are not using anything now but typically we use condoms. I was on the pill for ages before ttc the first time and don't want to go back on hormonal birth control until I am done having (and breastfeeding) kids.