September 2013 Moms
strlitemiss
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Prevention
strlitemiss
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I can't make up my mind about BC after K comes and my OB keeps emailing reminding me to think about it. So I know my not options (condoms, depo, iud, implants,) and got pregnant on the pill so I'm nervous about the pill and the mini pill. What helped you pick or consider your method, other then Google because that left much to be desired?
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Re: Prevention
This is our last pregnancy and DH has said he is fine with getting a vasectomy but otherwise I would try the copper IUD. I had Mirena before and while it worked, I always had a heaviness feeling in my pelvis. The day I got it removed I felt... lighter. I know that sounds weird but its the only way I can explain it. I only had it in for a little less than a year before we were ready to try again and then started charting.
The nice thing about it was not having to remember to take a pill everyday or use condoms.
No you are reading that right, I just didnt consider charting was used as a prevention method .
Well since we're not done 97% isn't that bad.
They do say 97% effective, but not a smart idea to try it when you're ovulating
This time I will get copper iud until we are ready for DH to get vasectomy. After 10 years on hormonal birth controls I am DONE with them and their side effects!
We are done after this LO so DH is getting a vasectomy and I am getting a tubal during my RCS.
After DS1, when we knew we wanted to try again within the year, we used condoms or pull and pray. At that point we would have welcomed pregnancy if it happened, so we weren't worried about it.
After DS2, we wanted to wait a year or two so I got the Paraguard IUD. It is non-hormonal which I liked because I was still breastfeeding and do not do well with any hormonal birth control. Took it out and got pregnant on the first cycle afterwards.
Boy #3!
edit because I forgot to add what we plan on doing:
I would like an IUD or something along those lines, but I'm still kind of undecided. Dh and I are pretty convinced that we will be one and done, but I'm still not totally sold so I wouldn't want to do anything permanent yet. But we're definitely not in a hurry to have a 2nd and for now we really, really want to avoid it. Quite frankly, if it were up to me I'd want to use condoms plus another method just to be extra sure (even though I have PCOS so TTC wasn't the easiest), but dh is fine with just condoms. Since I'll be breastfeeding and can't be on anything hormonal except the mini pill (which I don't really trust anyway), we'll be using condoms for now.
We're one and done!
After DD we followed all the LAM guidelines (breastfeeding as birth control) with the idea that we were okay with having two close together. Guess what? I'm here with babies that will be 13.5 months apart. While we plan on doing 2u2 again, we want more of an 18 month to 24 month gap next time...hence condoms for now.
So I am thinking we will go back to the PnP but.. I will be talking to OB because while we can handle one right now I don't think we want a second asap.
We actually thought we had fertility problems bc we had used pull and pray for the past 6 or so yrs before officially TTC and never had and oopsie (which we kind of expected to and were okay with!) Then when we started TTC, which took a year, we realized that the moon has to be in the seventh house and the stars have to align with Jupiter or whatever. For us anyway.
However, we're obviously not that confident about it, bc H will be getting a vasectomy after the babies are born. I would just go for tubal ligation if I get a C, but even though we're positive that we don't want more children, I'm also concerned about changing our minds in the future (although i don't think we will). My aunt was positive she didn't want more, and 10 yrs after getting her tubes tied spent a ton of money and two surgeries trying to undo it and she couldn't. She and her H were told that had he gotten a vasectomy, they would've been likely able to reverse it. All ended well, as they ended up adopting my beautiful little cousin, but that story really made me think about how you can be so sure of something at one point in your life and regret having made such a permanent decision later in your life.
I've talked with my doctor about this some, and just based on that one conversation, I decided that I'm going to give NuvaRing a try (even though the idea of it weirds me out). I'm HORRIBLE at taking pills every day even with a phone reminder (my husband has been having to ask me twice a day if I've been taking the antibiotic for this UTI - this is the longest stretch of time ever that I've managed to remember to take medication daily).
Because we may want to have more kids fairly close in age, IUDs aren't really an option for me. If an IUD were an option, I would probably go with the hormone free choice (ParaGuard?).
The rhythm method is not for us. Between November and December of 2012, I had five periods (Found out that one was implantation bleeding), spaced pretty closely. I think they were stress induced, but 2012 was a pretty rough year. Initially I was told that I wasn't able to have children, so I stopped taking BC completely (apparently my doctor at the time was just kidding). So, I'm going to give this a try and see what happens.