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I am a single mum, I am 28.5 years old,getting married in April, and we want to start planning for a baby in a years time. My daughter is 11, and desperately wants a sister :), I have been on birth control for a long time, when i started 11 years ago, i was on Triphasil, then about 4 years ago i started to bleed inbetween periods, and sometimes it would go on for over 7 days, i saw a doc, he put me on ovral to stabilise me and then said to go on a lighter pill-triphasil was too strong ( after 6 years???), so i went onto yasmin-it seemed to kind to my system, altho when i get s tressed i find that i bleed. Last year, I changed doctors when i moved, my new doctor( who is also my relatives family gp) advised me to go on Minerva as yasmin is too strong, and when i want to have a baby it may be very difficult if ever. This scared me,because of my problems regarding my period l, i feel as if it may hinder our chances. When i initially took yasmin i was told it was lighter than Diane.
So, my question is, When should i leave the pill to start getting pregnant? are there any moms that have taken yasmin and still got pregnant, how long did it take you, also, has anybody had a similar problem with mid period bleeding/ stress bleeding , could u still conceive thereafter?
thanks
Thanks to u all, i think i will stay on the pill, and go of it when we are ready to get pregnant. I will let nature take its course and pray for a health happy baby when the time comes :)
I don't know about that theory about contraception "aging" you. Like another respondant, I was on the pill for 18 years straight and got pregnant the following month after I went off the pill, then got pregnant with my 2nd the first month we tried. So I think everyone's different. Good luck.
you might be misinformed about the pill making you infertile. that isnt true, all women are different and if you've been on the pill for a long time it just means that it COULD take your body a while to get back to its NATURAL cycle (not fertile means). You could get pregnant within weeks of going off the pill.
When you are trying to get pregnant, you are tracking ovulation. That can be hard to do if your cycle is whack. One month could be 33 days, the next 28, the next 22. So you never know when you ovulate! But that doesn't mean you didn't ovulate or get pregnant.
Don't stress.
If you don't want to get pregnant, I'd stay on the pill and take them very vigilantly (same time everyday! try and be precise! this will help the transition of coming off of them!) and then go off the pill about 3 months prior to trying to concieve so that you can begin learning how to read your body.
You can sometimes get pregnant the first month after coming off the pill. Other times it takes a while. There is no way to tell in advance. I'd say go off the pill after the wedding and use a non hormone type of birth control (condoms, spermicide, etc) until you are ready to get pregnant. You might want to read some or all of Taking Charge of Your Fertility. You can learn how to track your cycle and use the information to either get pregnant or avoid it.
Once you get married. For every year one is on birth control, ones reproductive organs age an extra year - so it may take time for your body to recover. Get "The Billings Method" - it is really helpful for understanding your body's own signs for fertility - with photos. We have used the natural Billings Method both to get pregnant and to not get pregnant successfully for 14 years.
I don't have any experience in the birth control pills you mentioned.
But I do know that all birth control pills have estrogen related synthetic hormones which throws our bodies all out of whack. They say the first month after stopping birth control you are very fertile.
If you have any issues, I would recommend getting on a natural hormone balancing cream. This will help you regulate your hormones as well as help with concpetion.
Hope this helps!
M. ;-)
Well ... i got pregnant ON birth control pills ... TWICE. SO, i don't have much to add to this conversation.
BUT, i wanted to congratulate you on your upcoming marriage and wish you all the best in a new phase of your family life. :)
Mid-period bleeding is usually caused by taking a pill that is too low a dose of hormone for you. Birth control pills do not affect your chances of pregnancy in the future. I was on BC pills for 18 years straight. Went off them and was pregnant the first month. I wouldn't advise going off the pill, unless you use something else (which most doctors I believe still advise, to let your body get into a natural rhythm again since while on the pill, you do not ovulate), until you are ready to be pregnant.
I never take any if those pills but when I stop taking my BC because we wanted a baby , it took me 4 months to get pregnant and then I have a miscarriage and after a year I get pregnant again with a Healthy beautiful DD.
with my oldest one, I was in the pill for 6 years and I get pregnant in 2 or 3 weeks after I stop taking them.
I think you should stop when your ready to get pregnant it maybe take a while or a couple of weeks.......who knows?
My OB told me to go off the pill 3 mos before wanting to get pregnant. You can get pregnant the first month off, so we used condoms until we were ready to try, but sometimes your uterine lining needs some time to build back up after being on the pill she told me.
I was on Yasmin and got pregnant my first month trying!
Have you considered going off now and getting a diaphragm / using condoms?
If you were my good friend I would tell you that the BC seems to be stressing you out. Get off it. Try natural methods. It is kinder to your mind and body. And it has no long term side effects. Blessings.
talk to your doc about the Nuva ring, it is very low dose and even during intercourse it stays in place and isn't a bother. It can be taken out for several hours if needed too. It seems to work better since it doesn't go through the entire system like a pill.
i don't have experience with any of the pills you mention, or getting pregnant after, but i do have mid-cycle bleeding, and i have already been switched from generic ortho-tricyclen to loestren. it still happens. but i haven't gotten pregnant, and it is only a little each time, so i deal with it.
I have never taken any of the pills you mentioned, but it took me 2 years to get pregnant after I stopped my pill. Now, we were not REALLY trying, ut said if it happened it happened. But, it took 2 years for it to happen. I had beem on the pill for about 8 years prior.
