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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[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.