The Not Trying To Not Get Pregnant Thread

[Mejane]

Yep....me to!.......I am a bit superstitious though! You know when 'if you even start looking up when your last period was you think you just put a hex on the whole thing!'

HeK- my man is always out on the farm while I am in town so we don't get that much of a chance!....No different from having a hubby thats a truck driver!!!!! ....they just normally are not around when the egg is! LOL

M.J

[~Kim~]

lol Mejane, that's us...mine works 300kms away and is only home for the night every 6weeks or so (unless he brings a prisoner to town and then I'm usually in no mood for anything when he rocks up at 4am ).

[Yeddi]

I don't know how you girls do it. I've got a very high libido and hate it when my DH is away for more than a night or two. I've got itches that need to be scratched! Hmm...might get me in trouble using this method TBH, might have to be a one off, LOL.

[STARRYSKY]

This is me too, its been a year next month that we have been not, not trying! LOL.

Before getting PG with DS we were doing the same thing, not "actively" trying...I fell 18 months later, then MC at 9-10 wks, after that i WAS DETERMINED! took 6 months but we got PG with DS.

After all the stress and head bull**** of trying desperately to get PG last time (after MC) I absolutely refuse to go back there. I dont need the stress.

[Ilithyia]

My ex and I did this for pretty much the whole time we were together and I fell pregnant pretty much every 2 years.

First was in 2001.
Second in 2003.
Briley in 2005.

Colby was concieved in 2006 but I was trying to fall pregnant with her. Given the space in between all the other pregnancies I had thought it would take some time to fall pregnant again. This wasnt the case and she was conceived when Briley was just shy of 4 months.

I was again 'playing with fire' since having the Mirena taken out in 2009 and fell pregnant in April last year.

So I am guessing that for me, when there isnt a contraceptive in play I fall pregnant every 2 years when doing the whole 'trying but not trying' thingo.

[ElleJay]

We are trying - charting and everything - but haven't had the chance to start trying (if that makes sense) because of some health problems

[Just Me]

I am not in the not trying/not preventing category anymore because we are not trying but it took me 15 months to get pregnant with DD1 so after that I decided that I didn't want to go on any contraception and come what may because I wasn't sure how long it would take us the second time around.

DS1 was born 12 months and 3 weeks after DD1. I did breastfeed DD1 but my milk dried up without my realising (she lost a whole lot of weight) and AF returned once and I got pregnant in the next cycle.

After DS1 was born, I wanted another baby fairly close but I was charting so that counts as 'trying' and DD2 was born 15 months after DS1.

I breastfed DD2 and we went back to the not trying/not preventing category. AF returned when DD2 was about 7 months old (around the time she started solids or not long after) and I got a BFP when DD2 was 9 months old. I breastfed for the first 10 weeks of my pregnancy, but despite pushing through the achey boob stage of pregnancy, my milk dried up at the 10 weeks mark so I stopped breastfeeding at that point.

For all my babies, I have had one AF between each pregnancy. We aren't trying anymore (infact we are doing the opposite, we are definitely preventing).

[beansbeans!]

This is us. was us with DD1, i just went off the pill with the 'whatever happens, happens'. Then after she was born went off the mini pill cause I kept on forgetting to take it! Now theres 25 months between both girls.
Today we still have the 'whatever happens, happens'. Although this year I really want to take DH to Phillip Island for the motogp which is in oct, so Im really hoping nothing happens before april (grisl are sept and nov, would rather try and avoid a xmas bub too, cause there are already too many bdays in that month for us )

[~Hestia~]

This is kinda us at the moment. It took 5 months of actively trying to get our last BFP, but unfortunately lost it at 9 weeks in January. At the moment neither of us are ready for another pregnancy, but not so much that we're abstaining. I got AF back a couple of weeks ago but I'm really not paying that much attention to my cycle now. So whatever happens, happens! I will be happy when it happens but I guess if it takes a little while then that's just fine.

[Hopeosh]

We did the "lets just see what happens cos its probably not going to happen anyway" and I fell pregnant with DD the first time

I too have had a problem with being on the pill so I hadn't been taking it for years so there was no chemical contraception to come off.

DD is now 2 and we're ready to try again but I am hoping to control the timing a bit more as there are a few big things happening for us this year that I want to work around. Its cycle 3 and still no BFP but both DH and I don't want to get ourselves caught up in the stress of it all so I wouldn't mind going back to the "lets see what happens" method. I've been charting and using OPKs for the first time this month but might give it a rest after this cycle.