Pregnancy all around?

[cottonfox.livejournal.com]

I am on the pill, and my bf use condoms. But there is a strange phenomenon going on ,  It seems like everyone around me is getting pregnant! A lot of my friends had babies or recently got pregnant and of course it just makes me all worried and panicky that I would become pregnant too. Has anyone else felt this way? I often wonder to myself, most of my friends just use condoms or the pill. I am thinking how did they get preggo??!!  And i learned over half of them...all of them mostly, didn't do the correct usage for one time and it gave them a baby. So it only motivates me more to make sure everything is used correctly! But has anyone else noticed the same thing? Just wondering!

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[taterbug160.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. My good friend just recently had a baby (on purpose) and it seemed like all HER friends were having babies and getting pregnant as well. Freaked me OUT. Even though they were all intentional pregnancies, I made sure to stay away from their water! :P

[zhukora1.livejournal.com]

To be fair, there's a possibility that your friends weren't as careful about correct usage of their birth control of choice as they thought. It's pretty much human nature to not pay super close attention to something as habitual as taking a pill or putting on a condom until there's a reason to do so--i.e. when a pregnancy occurs and they start wracking their brains trying to figure out what went wrong; and trying to figure these things out in retrospect leaves a lot of room for error.

I'm not trying to say your friends are being dishonest by any means. :) Even with completely, clinically perfect usage, there's still a slight chance of pregnancy--freak accidents happen, and so on. All I mean is that you probably have less reason to be worried than you think you do, especially since you're now motivated to pay closer attention to how correctly you are using your own birth control.

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

Two of my best friends got pregnant with opps babies almost the exact same time. The babies were born less than a week apart even. They were both on BC (one the pill and one Nuva Ring). With one of them the condom broke and she actually went and took the morning after pill, but still managed to get pregnant. The other person says that the condom didn't break at all.
About six months before that I had a friend that the same thing happened to.
In fact, my aunt got pregnant with both her kids while on the pill and using condoms.
That's why they say that the only real way to prevent pregnancy is abstinence.
Me personally I don't want kids, so I plan on going through the Essure procedure, and even that isn't 100%.

[arularia.livejournal.com]

I've got an even better "what are the odds?" story.

My sister-in-law works as a nuclear med tech in a hospital. She has now met two different women who got pregnant after both they and their respective partners were surgically sterilized. And it wasn't a "we had sex too soon after the procedure" type event. Both women got pregnant years after the fact. One of the women jokingly refers to her youngest child as their miracle baby.

If that doesn't hammer home the point that nothing short of abstinence is foolproof, I don't know what will.

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

Yeah really, it's crazy. I actually have an uncle that had a vasectomy and didn't tell his wife, and years later his wife got pregnant, and for a while there thought his wife cheated on him. Then he saw that the baby looked just like him, so there was no denying it was his.

[h0rsegurrrl.livejournal.com]

Yes, everyone around me is having babies. We're all so young, too, I didn't expect this to happen for at least another five years or so. You can imagine how I felt when I had an exceptionally long cycle that ended in my period being about a month late. O.O I also wonder what these people were using for birth control, although, my guess is that they don't have IUD's like I do. I guess I have an advantage there.

[xojennakateox.livejournal.com]

spring is in the air! :)

[arularia.livejournal.com]

Actually, in high school, I had almost the exact opposite reaction. I was doing my thing, being careful, avoiding pregnancy, and all these girls around me were getting pregnant and having babies. And honestly, I was jealous. It made me want to be pregnant and have a baby so freaking bad.

I've since learned that my biological clock, if you will, just occasionally freaks out and makes me want to drop everything and get pregnant. Somehow those urges are never around though to keep me calm when my period does strange things. :P

[archangelbeth]

One kid is enough of a handful for us! So I pretty much abandoned my younger notions of two. *sigh* So, when I was getting to the "should be period soon" end of a cycle, after we'd used a less-protective method than condoms, and I was getting ancy, I took some tests. And, of course, they gave me the "Nope, no preggo, gal" answer.

So then my PMS depression hit and I was all weepy about not being pregnant. *headdesk*

[arularia.livejournal.com]

My fiance and I are undecided about whether or not we'll have children, but I know that if we do try and I'm not pregnant that first month, there's probably going to be a meltdown. Even though I know that even perfectly healthy women usually take a few months to conceive, there will probably still be nights of "why can't I get pregnant?! *wail*"

[archangelbeth]

*pats*

If it helps, it took my spouse and I about 6-7 months of "not trying not to" (we stopped using any contraception at all, but didn't really change our bed habits) before I got pregnant. We'd figured "give it a year of this, and if it doesn't work out, we can try specifically."

85% in a year, if there's no contraception at all, right? O:>

[arularia.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Like I said, the rational part of me is well aware of the fact that it can take some time. But once I give-in to the mommy desires, they're going to demand instant gratification.

[happychildless.livejournal.com]

I left a teaching job to go back to grad school...within 1.5 years of me leaving, every teacher left on my team had a boy. 2 got pregnant right after I left. I left with another teacher and we get a good laugh because we both do not want children and it seems like we left at the right time.

But then again, there are several staff members and teachers at my new school who are pregnant. Loving my IUD right now.