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676912 tn?1332812551

OT~~staying positive

Ladies I pray that I ovulate this month, and all who are ttc get their BFPs too!!! If not it's a long 5-6 month wait for me to be able to ttc again. But on a good note, I have a long time to track my cycles if I get a BFN...just trying to stay positive. I could really kick my @$$ for getting on b/c. If I was smart and researched it before taking it I never would have. Darn me!!! LOL
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470885 tn?1326329037
Just sending you lots of babydust and positive vibes!!  I was way more stressed about it the first month we tried this time around and all I got for my trouble was a BFN.  On the second cycle, I found I was much more relaxed.....and now I'm almost 6 weeks pregnant.

It'll happen for you, too :-)  If I remember correctly, you were on the pill for just 2 months...I'm no expert, but I don't think that was long enough to do any permanent damage.  I was on a combo pill for 4 years and it didn't affect my fertility.

((hugs))
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676912 tn?1332812551
I agree with you in your last paragraph 110%. And it's sad that it's mostly young teens. Oh well, I don't think it's cause of b/c that I didn't get pregnant last month I've just heard horror stories of not ovulating after b/c and I don't know for sure when I ovulate and how to know for sure. I check my cm, but I'm not going to this month I'm just going to BD and have fun, and when it happens it happens.
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461781 tn?1285609481
Yeah BC stops ovulation, but its not as simple as that.  There are different hormones that rise and lower at different times during your cycle, what the BC pills do is that it increases the ammounts of those two hormones during your cycle and prevent ovulation. In other words, it sort of fakes the natural hormonal balance that your body has and fools your body into believing that it has already ovulated when it hasn't. And it also thickens the cervical mucus so sperm can't go through.  However if the hormonal pattern is disrupted then your body naturally continues its natural hormonal flow, that is why some women when they miss the pill or don't take it as directed, become pregnant.

Those fake hormones should in theory leave your body within a couple of days, that is why for it to work effectively you have to take a pill every day and can't take pills randomly out of the pack.  SOMEtimes, some women end up ovulating when they are on the sugar pills (period).

So in the end, I don't think that the reason that you haven't conceived in a month has anything to do with the BC pills. Its just a matter of chance and percentages.  And it seems that everyone that isnt planning or shouldn't be getting pregnant, ends up getting pregnant a lot faster than the people that are TTC.

Just don't think about it, it will happen faster that way.
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676912 tn?1332812551
That's what I'm going to do this month, when I got pregnant with DS it was the first month, we weren't really trying but we didn't use protection. I'm just worried because I've been doing research and my b/c is a combo pill that stops ovulation, so even though I've had two periods I may not be ovulating yet.
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461781 tn?1285609481
BC has some side effects but really its probably not what is making you not get pregnant so fast.  The majority of women (with or without having used birth control) spend 6-12 months trying to get pregnant, on any cycle every woman has about 25% chance only to get pregnant doing everything perfectly, so on any given month every woman has about 75% chance of NOT getting pregnant even doing everything perfectly.  Think about that and try to relax.  The majority of women on here will tell you that they got pregnant when they weren't really thinking about it, just having sex and having a good time.
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