<p>Yes, IUDs imo are still not a first line choice for young women, since some types still do have a risk of uterine perforation. The small copper Ts and the Mirena are better, I think, than the old ones for sure, but I think there are better choices. Plus, if you expel an IUD you might not know it for a while. Another reason to use condoms too. Nuvaring is nice and is similar to the pill re side effects. You also have to be sure the girl knows how to insert it…</p>
<p>Marian, getting pregnant is no problem after an IUD is used and successfully removed. It’s the risk of perforation and subsequent infertility that used to be the issue.</p>
<p>@Marion- Yes, you can still get them. I tried it <em>once</em> and I never used it again. There was not a single darn thing about it that I did like. </p>
<p>@cartera-I need that app. I spent part of my summer as a nanny for a family with 4 (5 half way through the summer) children under the age of 10. Never did I miss a pill when I was with those kids- ESPECIALLY when the new born came around. </p>
<p>I think it’s a very good thing that young women can talk to their mothers about reproductive issues. Very few of our mothers could talk with THEIR mothers simply due to the generational divide. I have been in charge of my reproductive health since I became sexually active, but it’s nice that I have a mother who I know I can talk with and will not judge me.
Wit that said, I agree with mom483 about soliciting advice from strangers. Now that I think about it, I would be quite upset if my mother felt the need to go to strangers rather than me about my sexual health. However, that’s just my opinion as a young daughter.</p>
<p>I have at least one friend who got pregnant using the sponge, after she had to have her IUD removed. Possibly two. I know of at least 2 unwanted pregnancies while using a diaphragm. In all cases the device was being used according to instructions. I know of no one who got pregnant on the pill. (This is among my close friends, back in the day, when we only used condoms if nothing else was available.)</p>
<p>It used to be that if a woman got pregnant while using birth control, doctors automatically assumed that she did something wrong. Later, we heard about drugs negating the pill, diaphragms no longer fitting, or moving, or being unsuitable for people with a tipped uterus, and so forth.</p>
<p>Hi nice to meet you! (Actually, I guess you’d have to meet my mom since I’m the pill baby.) My mom got pregnant while on the pill (took it just as she was supposed to and all that) and still got pregnant. It’s why I never have sex without a condom- I just don’t trust the pills that much.</p>
<p>Also, I think nowadays there is still the assumption that the woman did something wrong. Unfortunately, most of the time it is. I knew people when I was younger who legitimately thought that you were only supposed to take your bc pills (your daily ones, not plan B) when you wanted to have sex (as in the morning of or right before/after the act). Sex education in this country is terrible and doctors/pharmacists don’t always do a great job of explaining things. It’s quite sad.</p>
<p>Gynos recommend taking bp pills at night because you can get a touch of “morning sickness” and it’s best to experience it while asleep They are also pushing the nuvaring -not the diaphragm- for those who might forget to take the pill daily. It stays in for 3 weeks and is removed for one.</p>
<p>^shakes head again
Rick Santorum Pledges To Defund Contraception: ‘It’s Not Okay, It’s A License To Do Things’
By Igor Volsky on Oct 19, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Rick Santorum pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception, during a recent interview with CaffeinatedThoughts.com editor Shane Vander Hart, arguing that birth control devalues the act of procreation. “One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country,” the former Pennsylvania senator explained. “It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be”:
SANTORUM: [Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It’s supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal…but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen…This is special and it needs to be seen as special.</p>
<p>^ That just makes me so, so angry. Sex is natural. People are going to have it with or without protection. Can we please just protect our daughters, sisters, friends from unwanted pregnancy and STDs rather than making it a political issue? There is federal funding for <em>many</em> other types of prevention programs so why should this be any different?</p>
<p>Ugh. Just ugh. Abstinence only education doesn’t work and banning contraception doesn’t work. When will politicians (a specific group of politicians I should say) get that through their thick skulls?</p>
<p>ETA: I understand that morally some people don’t want their tax dollars to go to these types of programs, but the truth is that that is life. I don’t want my tax dollars to go towards busting medical marijuana patients like my mother, but that’s another issue. Morally, I think it’s wrong to use tax dollars to bust adults for drugs but it’s still going to happen and there is some good that comes out of the war on drugs (some, not much). Morally, I don’t want my tax dollars to go towards building bombs and invading countries. However, I know that there is a tradeoff for living in a society.</p>
<p>Hey were not alone! One of my professors worked on a UN program for women’s reproductive health in SE Asia. They couldn’t figure out why the pregnancy rate did not decrease after distributing the contraception. After some inquiry, the women reported taking the vaginal suppository spermicide…orally.
In an attempt to relate this to the OP’s situation, mothers can be the best teachers!</p>
<p>I think it’s intriguing that my response to posting #50 refuting Rick Santorum as an authority was deleted, while the original post remains. I provided certain factual information refuting Rick Santorum as an appropriate authority to cite as well as old newspaper link. As a lawyer, I went back over the terms of service to try to see how the posting might possibly have violated any of them. I’m guessing that it was concluded that my posting was viewed as being political, unlike posting #50. Interesting.</p>
<p>“Hi nice to meet you! (Actually, I guess you’d have to meet my mom since I’m the pill baby.) My mom got pregnant while on the pill (took it just as she was supposed to and all that) and still got pregnant.” - romanigypsyeyes</p>
<p>Perhaps Santorum just thinks this world is a better place with you in it.</p>
They are also pushing the nuvaring -not the diaphragm- for those who might forget to take the pill daily. It stays in for 3 weeks and is removed for one.</p>