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When you had your baby, or when you DO have your baby, what are you using for birth control? Why did you chose whatever method you picked?
With this being my second baby and me still being so young (21) my family is kind of on my butt about what I plan to do about birth control. Not that its any of their business, but they still are. "You certainly dont want to have another baby as quick as you are having this one" Well, no, but if it happened I wouldnt complain about it! LOL! But I would LIKE to put a couple years between the new baby and my next. Isobelle will just be about 18mos old when Colton is born and it has been trialing to be pregnant and care of a toddler that still cant talk, or do many things for herself, ya know? But, the more I learn about birthcontrol the more I hate it! Most of them just are not for me... for many many different reasons. I think we will give it a go with NFP. I understand I have a lot to learn and I will have to find a doctor who promotes this method but I think its right for me.
Since I have PCOS I rarely ovulate, so we just use charting and withdrawal for our birth control. I can't stand condoms or hormonal birth control, so there really isn't much other choice
I think we will go the NFP route - I've had a lot of allergic reactions to all sorts of birth control and it's not worth it to me to have to worry about whether or not I'm poisoning myself by taking something hormonal.
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I'm planning on using NFP as well. It's how I got pregnant (actually it's how I discovered I wasn't ovulating, and THEN it was how i got pregnant lol) so I should be able to use it just as easily NOT to get pregnant. We are considering using condoms or maybe just lube that contains spermicide. I am borderline for PCOS so I don't ovulate regularly anyway. This should make it even harder to get pg! That and BF'ing...which I'm not counting on for birth control, but is an added bonus to maybe keep me from getting pg. I want at least 2, preferably 3 years between this one and the next one!
I hadnt thought I was a candidate for NFP, because I have endo and even though I dont usually have a period, I apparently ovulate. I never had a period before I conceived, all three times. This makes things kind of tricky! But then again, my OB's have always put me on depo to regulate my endo and so my body never had a chance to do things it needed to do. I am hoping that NFP will not only help me TTA, but help me get my body back to a natural working order, KWIM?
i have been on the depo shot and orthotricyclin low. i definitley hated the shot! the pill was not as bad but still i didn't like it. i don't like condoms all that much either so i am confused on this one as well. i am considering the mini pill right after i have this baby since i will be breastfeeding and i heard that is much easier than the regular pill. we will see though. i just hate all the risks of it!
I have the mirena IUD. Dorothy, I didn't know you were 21. Me too. You just seem so mature! Way to go young mummies!
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NFP here, the Billings Method. The same way I don't like unnecessary interventions in birth, I don't like the idea of having chemicals or devices in my body. I have PCOS, so that means I need to be a little more diligent about charting because I don't have the luxury predictable cycles...but have had no problems TTA when we needed to. We've never used anything else.
I have the Mirena IUD... Its not that bad. I can't take the pills due to my hormone issues... I have really bad mood swings... But I love it... Its a lose dose and I never have to take a pill or worry about a shot
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I don't know what my husband and I are going to do. NFP will not work for us. I don't know what my cycle wil be like after we have our baby but I have a feeling that my cycle will not be normal. I went a year without a period, I don't think that I was ovulating at all durring that time but I don't know. I finally started having cycles again after taking several months of progesterone and estrogen. I charted my cm and temp. and there was no regularity to it. I was shocked when we found out I was pregnant because I didn't think I had ovulated.
I don't know what my husband and I are going to do. NFP will not work for us. I don't know what my cycle wil be like after we have our baby but I have a feeling that my cycle will not be normal. I went a year without a period, I don't think that I was ovulating at all durring that time but I don't know. I finally started having cycles again after taking several months of progesterone and estrogen. I charted my cm and temp. and there was no regularity to it. I was shocked when we found out I was pregnant because I didn't think I had ovulated.[/b]
Actually NFP works very well for irregular cycles - I have PCOS and I easily go 6 months without a period, my cycles are very complicated. It just requires a little extra support to learn to interpret mucus patterns that are failed attempts at ovulation, and mucus patterns which are actually ovulatory. An NFP instructor can help with that! The mucus only methods (Billings and the Creighton Model) are more flexible for complicated cycles than the Sympto Thermal Methods of NFP.
We will probably just go to using condoms again. We both are fine with them so we will do that for awhile, especially since I don't want to mess my body up with hormones and it isn't so easy for us to conceive. We talked about ttc again when the second is a year, we will have to see how we are doing financially or whatever, but it is just easiest for us to go the barrier route. Maybe for fun I will use NFP here and there to give us a break. I am pretty sure I can interpret it pretty well having tried to get pregnant charting my cycles. I feel pretty confident I know what to do in that area.
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DH and I will use condoms and NFP. While I was charting we started just using condoms during the times I was likely to be ovulating. We both liked this method.
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I'm not sur it's the way we say it in english...
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