Thanks all, I think I will ask my GP at my next dr appointment. It just seemed like the onus of contraceptive protection was solely my responsibility. I planned on waiting at least a month to 6 weeks anyway depending on how I healed etc before even thinking about jumping Dad2be (much to his dislike of course lol), then just wanted to use condoms and then maybe think about the pill afterwards.

I was on Diane 35 for bad back acne that I couldnt have anything touch my back it hurt so much, I was constantly vommitting, nausious, had bad mood swings and cried all the time for no reason, so went off it as soon as my back cleared up and never had a problem with acne since.

She (midwife) said she couldn't say if I'd have the same problem with any other pills and tried to push the hormone ring instead but I said I didn't want to be sticking things in and out of my bits and didn't like the idea of an implant as I like to have more control over my fertility cycle (e.g. if we want more kids I can just stop taking the pill, stop using condoms, I don't need to have something hacked out of my arm before hand).

We have no problems with condoms, as I said I don't really want to be pumping myself full of chemicals and hormones straight away. I thought maybe they expect you to use it to help with hormones after pregnancy or something and thats why they really pushed it?