Is it possible to become pregnant if

I almost put MN in the hobbies section of my CV .

I'm glad you're feeling relaxed about it now - hope you get the result you want. Let us know how you get on.

at HD ...

I think the rule is that if a man puts his willy inside you, you can get pregnant.

Tell him to stop it.

Seriously, good luck.

Sore breasts and a crampy feeling were actually my first pregnancy symptoms.

Have you got a pregnancy test? Would be worth doing one just so that you can stop wondering!

Unluckily, implantation can have the same symptoms as AF and happens around the same time... So you cannot be sured right yet. Good luck to you!

oh so you got your hopes up then it can happen but not definatly!
Your local family planning can help you either way with what ever you choose!

OOh I've been ttc for 7 months, I might start using the withdrawal method

Things happen and my mum says I am the best mistake she ever made.

Hope things go your way. Good luck

Dh has 3 kids with 3 different women due to some fine contraceptive failures. He is as far from feckless a man as you could possibly find but his CV is often interpreted differently!!

I've never been one to laugh at/blame people for not knowing things that other people really should have taught them. Possible, you have clearly been taught that this method is safe, so please don't give yourself a hard time for not knowing everything there is to know about it.

the one that catches most people out is that they think that forgetting the pill in the middle of the cycle is more dangerous than forgetting one at the begining or end of the packet. And that makes sense, doesn't it, because that would be when your body would releace the egg.

In actuall fact the 'worst' pills to miss (or be sick etc on) at the ones at the begining and end of the packet. Because these extend the pill free interval, and an egg can sneak out!

I made this mistake and I'm a biologist ffs!

Both my adorable neices are accidents and db is a biology teacher.

Dh is an accident as well and his mother is.......

.....wait for it

.....another biology teacher.

Have mates who are Midwives who have 'slipped up'

To err is human and all that.

But the facts are the facts.

It is one of those things that can be useful for spacing your kids, I think.

I used to work in the contraceptive buisness, and the thing that loads of people forget (docs and patients both) in that our contraceptive needs change, as our life changes.

I switched from the very effective pill to the less effective diaphragm when dh and I were getting ready to start our family. I knew the relative risks of getting PG, and getting PG wouldn't have been a huge issue at that point in my life.

Picking contraception is all about finding that suits you and your partner at that point in your life. And part of that decision has to be based on knowing the failure rates of the various options.

That isn't being holier than thou NDP, it is just giving people information that they can then use.

And Possible, whatever happens stop beating up on yourself. We all do 'daft' stuff. You are not the first person to be confused over this stuff and you wil not be the last.

Hope you get what you want.

And to be fair, the OP is asking if she could be pregnant, to which the answer, holy or otherwise, is "yes"!!

There should have been a 'though' at the end of the first sentence.

It is better than not using anything at all.

It is better than nothing.

'Typical' use is 19-20% failure rate.

I think it's a bit cruel to call people 'holier than thou'. We were all pointing out the risks as a method and trying to do so in a supportive way for the OP. I don't know the statistics on its failure rate, but if a failure rate of 20% is correct, that of course means that there are some people who it will work for. It just means that for lots and lots of people it will not.

Possible - I hope that you get the result you want or, if you don't, that it works out for the best for you.

not every time, but sometimes, yes it can be.

It isnt being 'holier than thou' it is just biological fact.

And for many people it doesn't work.

I'm seriously happy that you have used it with such sucess and that you are obviously happy with it. But it isn't a reliable form of contracption for the majority of people who use it.

of course it isn't a failsafe method of contraception, but it isn't the 'one dribble and your pg' scenario either.

Failure rates for withrdrawl are arounf 20%, so a 1/5 failure rate. There are people who use it sucessfully, but it really shouldn't be thought of as a good form of contraception, because for the majority of people it isn't.

I hope that Possible gets the result that she wants.