Being pregnant has so far been much easier than GETTING pregnant. An amazing discovery for me, was that you don’t just hop in the sack, get it on and two weeks later find out your pregnant. What am I a virgin? Never had sex-ed? No and no, but it always seemed like everyone was so bent out of shape about using birth control that I sort of formed an assumption over all these years that getting pregnant must be REALLY, REALLY easy. Like don’t even THINK about doing it without birth control!
Now, I suppose there are those that get pregnant “by mistake”. But according to the Infertility Dr. we met with, that’s far from the usual. He says “Yes, mistakes happen, but only when you are repeatedly having sex without birth control. But the ONE time? Not likely, since even when you have sex on the day of ovulation, you have only a 25% chance you’ll get pregnant.” Based on THAT, I’m surprised anyone EVER gets pregnant.
After having begun my journey of getting pregnant with the assumption that I’d only have to do it once without birth control, I have learned A LOT of interesting things along the way and I’ll share them with you here, so stay tuned!
I feel bad saying this to someone who had a tough time, but we conceived Liam on possibly the first try. I am someone who obviously needed the birth control! It could have been one of a few days really, but basically the first try. I was opposite from you. I never thought it’d happen so fast! I’m glad everything is going well with your pregnancy!
Yeah I know Erin – that’s wonderful! And yes you do need that birth control – hee hee! You are one of two people I know that it happened on the first try. Everyone else I know had to work at it. Liam is soo cute – bet you are loving being a mommy xo