Tell me I'm not crazy!

[MamaE]

I just went off my pill last night. I had AF wwwaaaayyyy too often, and I just couldn't take it anymore. Plus, I kinda felt like, it's great birth control bc who would want to DTD with AF all the time anyway!!!

So, I've started charting once again, which is what I used at birth control before TTC, and what I used to conceive my princess in ~6 weeks.

I guess, even though it's all making sense on paper, I'm just scared as hell. After going through the pregnancy and birth, I don't really like the idea of getting pregnant again (DD is 13 mo). Plus, even if I do come around to the idea, I want more time. DH is totally on-board with the entire plan, but the 2 of us are a bit nervous.

Anyone else go through this? Not wanting #2 but not wanting chemical BC either?

 

[missk1989]

Yes! I hate taking the pill, implant and injection send me crazy and whilst I have considered iud it doesn't have a great history. But if I was to get pregnant again it would be a disaster as we really can't afford it so right now I'm hoping that bf will be a good enough contraception seems as oh has really low sperm count (tmi) and we were originally told it would be impossible for us to conceive.

 

[Dawnlouise30]

I am coming off the pill soon for the same reason as you, but we don't want another just yet either DS is only 4 months. We will be doing natural family planning and hope it works x

 

[MamaE]

I hope it works for you both, too! It's crazy how having the baby can be the best form of birth control

And missk, I'm fairly sure that BF'ing is not a good form of BC---you are still ovulating during that period of time. My SIL got preggy 3 months after her first because she thought the same thing. Be careful!

 

[ZoMo]

I have a bad time with the pill too. I took microgynon in my teens and early twenties with no problem. Then I stopped taking it for a few years and tried to go back on it when I was about 25 and bled for 21 days straight so I got fed up and switched to Celeste. I was on that for a few weeks and landed up in an overnight stay in hospital having got migraines, the worst made me go blind for the duration of the migraine. The last one I tried, cant remember the name, I tried last year (age 33) and it made me have horrific mood swings, insanely aggressive tendencies, during an argument with OH, I was actually wanting to smash the plate I was holding and stab it in his back as he was walking away!!!! We are not even remotely aggressive normally, we dont ever raise voices, we just sulk rather than argue so that scared the cr*p out of me!!!!

So I told him he needs to use condoms as I had done everything I could and it was his turn. He still hasnt bothered as he hates them, now he just pulls out and hopes for the best. It always worked for us up to TTC but I know its not a very responsible and a risky method!