Has this actually happened to anyone? That is, using a condom properly- no apparent holes or rips or anything falling off....all seemed fine....but pregnancy resulted.
Sorry to say but I was changing pills and came off them for a month, we were very careful and used condoms all the time - and AF never arrived! we were preggers...
Why don't you try NFP? (Natural Family Planning). In my experience, this is the most effective form of contraception. Its also very empowering to know when you are fertile and infertile and know when you can really 'go for gold' without the hassle of a condom, and then just engage in alternative forms of intimacy during the relatively short period that you are fertile. The average woman is only physically capable of falling pregnant 5 days out of every month (a few days prior to and during ovulation).
I have been using this method for years, both to acheive and avoid pregnancy and it is the most fun and effective by far. It is also wonderful to know that you are not taking any drugs that may harm your fertility in the long term.
Oh dear. Well, if there is anything baking away, its too early for tests to tell, so I will just have to wait. I'm sure its nothing. Its just that I have this insane desire to eat big, heavy meals late at night after I've had dinner, and the only other time I've had that when was I was pregnant really, really early on with Peter. And my CM is really wierd. And I'm so tired. But it can all be explained in many other ways.
DH and I only used condoms for 5 or so yrs. i have only had one PG scare and I wasn't PG. One of my friends got PG in high school when her and her BF at the time had sex. She lost the baby very early tho. i know that doesn't help you but i think that as long as your DP knows how to use a condom properly then you should be fairly safe. if you are that concerned then you need to use a backup birth control or contraceptive.
Hun Miss Em was double contraception failiure, maybe even a triple contraception failiure. I had infertile CM, DH used a condom and I was on the minipill. If they are meant to be here hun, no amount of contraception will work. I know Em is a little miracle considering the number of things she had to get through.
I hate to be a party pooper, but really the odds are so tiny! I mean, you have about a 4 day window to fall preggers in a month, and if you used a condom during this time, you might have, say, about a 70 - 95% protection rate if you used them correctly (as in using spermicide, using them for the "whole show", etc). So I guess statistically speaking, you have something like a 1 in 10 chance of getting BFP if you DTD right on fertile period.
I hear ya Amber. Half the ladies in my mothers group are pregnant, and 2 have just had their second bubs! I look at Caden and just see him as a baby still...I can't imagine another just yet! Good luck
mmmm DD1 was a condom baby. We were having celebratory sex when finding out a lump in my breast was due to ovulation... so I knew I was ovulating and we were happy it wasn't a nasty lump....
weeks later as I was vomiting in the toilet it hit me that I may be pregnant... and sure enough 4 tests and a blood test later, DH & I were finally convinced it was true. Since then we have used the ovulation and condom methods.
Thanks all. Still waiting on AF to arrive. Probably is, I don't really keep any records so I'm not sure where I am!!
DH said "well, do you *feel* you're pregnant? What does your intuition tell you?". I told him this was an entirely dodgey test since last time I was absolutely sure I wasn't pregnant and only took the test because I had one left and I didn't know what else to do with it!!
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Has anyone become pregnant while using a condom?
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