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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[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.