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To believe the mini pill has killed my broodiness?

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saltedcaramelicious · 28/01/2015 12:13

I've always been broody as hell. DP and I decided last year that we weren't ready for a dc together just yet so I started on the mini pill in May 2014, with the view that we would hopefully start TTC summer 2015.
I have now nearly totally lost my broodiness. The thought of a baby no longer makes me feel all warm and squishy and like it's what I really want to do, instead all I am thinking is how noisy/stressful/expensive they are and I don't know if I want one after all. Before I began the pill I always imagined that if we had an accident I would be over the moon, now If I imagine it I just feel panic.
I have an older dc from previous relationship and all I remember now is the exhaustion and other negative sides.
Very strange and so unlike me.
Had this happened to anyone else? Could the mini pill really do this? I'm not having any periods and not ovulating.

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sparechange · 28/01/2015 12:36

I doubt this is the pill, and more than the closer you are getting to the reality, the more it is sinking in and you are questioning it!

It isn't uncommon - after several years and thousands of pounds, I got cold feet in the waiting room of the ivf clinic before an embyro transfer, and again when I was a few months pregnant and heard a baby crying on the bus. Rather than the 'oh I just want to cuddle that baby' thoughts that I had previously had, it was 'oh my GOD what am I doing this is madness'.

It soon goes away, don't worry Wink

KeepitDown · 28/01/2015 13:51

I've been on the mini-pill for several years now and only seem to be getting broodier despite having 3 DCs already, and youngest only a few months old. The desire to be pregnant again is consuming all my thoughts, I wish the mini-pill had killed it, but nope.

saltedcaramelicious · 30/01/2015 18:18

Hmmmm so maybe IS just the fact the time is coming round where we said we start TTC and deep down I'm thinking fuck, only 5 months left of definitely not being pregnant......

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a2011x · 01/02/2015 09:27

Maybe a different scenario but it's very common where I work for a woman to become broody when she has long term contraception removed and awaiting a replacement . I was the same when I had my implant out I had to wait two weeks for a replacement and during that time I became slightly broody because I could become pregnant and if I wanted to, when on contraception I suppose I didn't think of it because it couldn't happen. Just a thought .

HermioneWeasley · 01/02/2015 09:28

If it's the pill then it's doing it's job brilliantly

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