Can you be pregnant....

During the first trimester it is somewhat common for a woman to have periods..... case in point my sister in law.



She is carrying twins and she started bleeding and the only explination of it was the dr told her is that sometimes the body is not completely relased of the blood meant for the period at that time of month. Now this happened to her twice in the first few months nothing after. Spotting is pretty common too.

As for Birth Control Pills.......my Dr tolds me when i was using them , when i was MUCH MUCH younger than all of you, is the fact that after using the pill for a long period of time the body is so use to them that getting pregnant would take time because the pills dosage is strong and immuned to not get pregnant. I have been told it takes a good 6 months off the pill to get pregnant if your the rare lucky ones who can get pregnant after using them.

The only real time you can ,minus the use of the pill , is ovulation time of the month .... and to get pregnant without sex ....wow! How that girl got pregnant from her BF in a swim suit .....totally the immaculate conception!

[TriDeltaGal]

Originally posted by cutiepatootie


I have been told it takes a good 6 months off the pill to get pregnant if your the rare lucky ones who can get pregnant after using them.

What do you mean by this? I had always heard that it was easier to get pregnant after you were on the Pill because they regulate your hormones. Now, I know that it can be hard if you are trying to get pregnant right after getting off of them.

I don't plan to get pregnant anytime soon but just wondering for the far off future and that kind of scared me ...

[OtterXO]

I've heard the same thing, that after you have been on the pill it is pretty common to get pregnant right after you go off-hence the women getting pregnant when taking antibiotics or missing 2 pills!!! Maybe women who have trouble getting pregnant after being on the pill are women who may have had trouble anyway? Just a thought!

[AGDee]

My doctors always said to use other forms of birth control for the first 3 months after going off the pill to allow your hormones to get back to normal and avoid harm to the baby.

I got pregnant on the pill. I ovulate twice every month and was put on one of those pills that changed the amount of hormone (the tri-whatever pills) throughout the cycle. It's not designed for two per month. Unfortunately, I miscarried that time.

My daughter is a condom and foam child. SURPRISE, but very wanted and very loved!

My son was just a happy surprise... the one and only time I had unprotected relations! I was planning on trying to have another one in 6 months.. so he was just a bit earlier than expected.

Some are just more fertile than others.

I am on depo now to stop my periods completely because I'm anemic from other medical conditions and the doc feels I'd be a mess if I was having periods. I don't care if it wrecks my reproductive system because I'm not having any more kids. My primary care doc won't approve me having my tubes tied either. She says "You know how many women turn 40, get remarried and want a baby with their new husband?". Well, I tell you, I wouldn't be one of those! I won't remarry, I don't want more kids and the other medications I'm on are seriously dangerous to embryos so it's out of the question. She still refuses though.

[ZTAngel]

Originally posted by DWAlphaGam
If anyone is taking Ortho-Lo, you may want to use backup birth control or switch to something else.

I've heard that many gynecologists won't even prescribe it because it's no good. I asked mine about it when I went in for an appointment a few weeks ago. I don't like the idea of the extra estrogen in my system from the regular pills since researchers are still unsure about the connection between birth control pills and breast cancer. My gynecologist said, "I'd rather you stick with the regular birth control pills. I really don't like this new Ortho-Lo pill they have out."

Originally posted by cutiepatootie
I have been told it takes a good 6 months off the pill to get pregnant if your the rare lucky ones who can get pregnant after using them.

Absolutely, 100%, not true! Research has shown that women who are on the pill and go off of it have no less of a chance of conceiving than women who were never on the pill. In fact, research has shown that women who just went off of the pill have a greater chance of conceiving than women who were never on it.

[swissmiss04]

Originally posted by AGDee
I don't care if it wrecks my reproductive system because I'm not having any more kids. My primary care doc won't approve me having my tubes tied either. She says "You know how many women turn 40, get remarried and want a baby with their new husband?". Well, I tell you, I wouldn't be one of those! I won't remarry, I don't want more kids and the other medications I'm on are seriously dangerous to embryos so it's out of the question. She still refuses though.

I'm not sure how old you are (and a lady never tells) but if you are over 35, I'd say that tubal ligation is the way to go. No one should have a baby after 40 anyways. Too much risk of having birth defects, not to mention the risk it poses to you (your body doesn't recover the same way at 40 as it did in your late 20s). I'm sure your doctor means well, but if you honestly feel that you want your tubes tied, then maybe you should seek out another doctor.

[PM_Mama00]

Originally posted by swissmiss04
I'm not sure how old you are (and a lady never tells) but if you are over 35, I'd say that tubal ligation is the way to go. No one should have a baby after 40 anyways. Too much risk of having birth defects, not to mention the risk it poses to you (your body doesn't recover the same way at 40 as it did in your late 20s). I'm sure your doctor means well, but if you honestly feel that you want your tubes tied, then maybe you should seek out another doctor.

My cousin just had a beautiful healthy baby girl in February. She's 43.

Anything is possible.

[TriDeltaGal]

Originally posted by ZTAngel

Absolutely, 100%, not true! Research has shown that women who are on the pill and go off of it have no less of a chance of conceiving than women who were never on the pill. In fact, research has shown that women who just went off of the pill have a greater chance of conceiving than women who were never on it.

Yay ZTAngel... you made me feel a ton better. No kiddies for me yet, but just want to know the pill will not effect my fertility when I do start thinking about it.

I thought I had read that research somewhere too...

[valkyrie]

Originally posted by AGDee
My primary care doc won't approve me having my tubes tied either. She says "You know how many women turn 40, get remarried and want a baby with their new husband?". Well, I tell you, I wouldn't be one of those! I won't remarry, I don't want more kids and the other medications I'm on are seriously dangerous to embryos so it's out of the question. She still refuses though.

Ooooh, it pisses me off when doctors refuse to do a tubal on a woman who wants one because they think they know better than she does. As soon as I have health insurance again I want to get one and I'm sure it won't be easy since I've never had kids and I'm sure doctors will love to say things like, "Oh, you'll change your mind" -- ummmm, no I won't!

Maybe i was misled or misunderstood but i heard when i was on the pill that coming off of them and trying to get pregnant was hard because your body becomes so use to them for so many yrs of taking them.

Originally posted by cutiepatootie
Maybe i was misled or misunderstood but i heard when i was on the pill that coming off of them and trying to get pregnant was hard because your body becomes so use to them for so many yrs of taking them.

You may have actually been confusing that with Depo. It generally takes up to a year after being on Depo (depending on how long you've been taking it) to become fertile again. The longer you're on it, the longer it takes for your body to readjust.

The pill is much more hit and miss... as others said, that's why you hear of girls missing one pill and getting pg.