Contraception?

yeah guess I forgot to tell everyone been a lot of shit going on

the same sister I was talking about lost a baby to sids

 

Congratulations Sunflower!! Sorry to hear the other news.

 

Simplest form of natural birth control, get to know the moon cycles, when you ovulate,and menstruate. Alot of folk dont know there is a time period in between the ovulation period and your mentruation period where you can have sex and not get pregnent, me and my wife know her monthly routine, we pay attention to the moon phaces and she only gets pregnent when we want, works like a charm and we have never had an accident.

 

So sory to hear that, i dont want to stir any emotions but im curious did your sister have the child vaccinated because there has been a recent study linking Sids to vaccinating enfants, thats the reason my daughter has had not one shot nor ever will.

 

I really don't know anything about the baby it was my fiance's sister

 

Wow, thanks guys, ya I am 29... Everyone says I look younger and new staff at my work always think I'm in high school.

Oh and SL. About charting your temperature. It doesn't have to be in the morning. The whole point of a basal body temp is to get it while your body is shut down and the last amount of outside factors can have effect on your temperature. You can take it any time that you wake up at as long as you've been asleep for three hours. Trying to have it as close to the same time as possible obviously is helpful, but if you generally sleep in the same place, taking it after 3 hours of sleep should be accurate enough.

And Sunflower, wow thats got to be hard. i've heard lots of times about sids being linked to the chemicals that are in the matresses. Because they are just sprayed with loads of chemicals. Thats why they recommend you don't have bumper in the crib, because it allows for more air circualtion around the baby while it sleeps.

 

Yeah I thought you were 18- 21. I thought it was weird when you were saying something about getting tied after the next baby!

 

oh thats interesting and makes sense

 

In a perfect world, you could use the moon to chart. However, you would have to sleep at the same time and in total darkness for this to work. Artificial light will change a cycle, so exposure to nightlights/streetlights/etc will make moon charting ineffective. It is a good addition to more thorough charting though. I would never rely on it solely though, because we rarely live in the complete wilderness.

 

mirena IUD.
before that I was on the depo injection.
haven't had my period in four years, which would be great, except I don't get pms regularily anymore, at first I got it around the same time each month, just no period. so now when I do get cramps, bloated, sore tits, I have to wait it out and pray I'm not pregnant. don't reccomend it. after my four years left with this iud are up, i'm off of birth control forever. if it get knocked up, at least i'll be old enough and either educated or finishing my education by then and don't need to worry about being a kid with a kid.
sids is shit. sorry to hear about it sunflower, even if it wasn't super personal. sids is a nightmare.

 

So, 3 days off the pill...so far so good

 

I stopped taking the pill last week and found out I am now pregnant

fml

 

Oh noes pat__ Drink vinegar and abort it.

 

lol

 

you feeling any better amy?

 

Yeh and my husband has noticed a difference too. I'm sure some of it is the relief of realising I may not actually be a total psycho..hehe but also I've felt noticeably less extreme in my moods and more level. My appetite, which was becoming really annoying, is also back to normal, so maybe I can make a box of breakfast cereal last more than 3 days...

 

vinegar abortions ftw

 

That's awesome Amy.

 

that IS awesome Amy. good thing you started this thread!

 

Thought I'd update on this.

Within days of stopping the pill I felt like a big cloud had been lifted away from me. I feel like I've been one consistent me, instead of four crazy extreme people. Loads of problems which I had presumed were part of some kind of psychological disorder have vanished. I don't think I've even cried once.

Since quitting anorexia at late 16 and starting to take contraceptive pills at early 17, I've never actually had any definite true experience of myself in my entire adult life. Many things which I had attributed to a shit personality have, I think, been nothing to do with me. There have been so many times when I have literally felt that I have nothing to do with myself, that there was some other thing living in me that I really had no control over. I guess that fact that I felt myself to have always been that way prevented me from thinking it may have been hormonal/pill-related.

It's a bit scary to think how much of my time it has all ultimately eaten up and how much pain it has caused for me and ones who have cared for me.

Different behavioural patterns over the years in relation to the different pills I've been on seem to suggest that the progesterone-only/"mini pill" is potentially most harmful.

Even if you think you have got yourself sussed, if you are experiencing any psychological problems, and are on the pill, please just try quitting it for a while to see what happens. I've gone through schizoid tendencies, severe depression and presumed bi-polar disorder. As it turns out I'm probably just another anti-social creative person and the rest was not me.

Sorry if that was long and boring...if you weren't interested, you shouldn't have read it

EDIT: Relevant page http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=366213&page=15