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What birth control are you on?
I had my 6 week pp appt with my doc today. Everything is looking good 
We were talking birth control. DH and I have had sex twice already, just using the "pull out" method. As far as going forward, I told my doc I didn't want to get on anything hormonal. I asked about an IUD, but he said it would just be expensive and since we want to work on our 2nd next year, it wouldn't make sense to go for an IUD (they work for 5-10 years).
He said I should use the sponge. That sounds so archaic to me. Has anyone used or is anyone using the sponge? How is it?
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Re: What birth control are you on?
I have never used the sponge. I was on BC pills until 2005 (when my naturopath suggested they were to blame for my migraines), then we tried a diaphragm but DH hated it b/c he said he could feel it -eew! We used condoms until we started TTC in the spring of 2006. Now that you know my entire bc history....I am having an IUD put in on Dec. 10th since we are pretty sure DD is our one and only. Even if we decide to have another we are looking at least 2 years out so I felt it was our best option!
In other news.....you had sex b/f your 6 week appointment? Did the doctor okay that or did you go all maverick sex goddess on us? I still have freaking stitches so I think it is out for us although I have had some crazy sex dreams!
Haha, we went for it a few days before 6 weeks, so technically we waited practically the whole time. Doctor didn't OK it, but then again, I didn't ask! At my 2 week pp appt he didn't sound all hardcore about it so I assumed we'd be OK.
You are lucky you have had sex dreams! To be honest, I'm really not that into sex right now, and I did it more for DH... though to be honest, once we got going it was really nice and I really appreciated some alone, intimate time with him! These days, it's a rarity
I was on the ring before. As far as hormonal bc, it was great. I'm a total fan.
I'm just trying to stay off the hormones is all.
condoms or pull & pray method.
(read it. you know you want to.)
anderson . september 2008
vivian . february 2010
mabel . august 2012
We are using condoms since we too are hoping to start TTC #2 this summer. I wanted to avoid hormonal bc also and finally just went for the condoms. Although we've had to use the prayer method already since we went a little crazy one night;)
(m/c 1.17.07, m/c 5.15.07)
DS - 03.15.08
DD2 - 12.03.09
DD3 - 3.28.11