To be pregnant 6 weeks after birth?

[alfie22]

I'm seriously freaking out right now.

I've had pregnancy symptoms for the past few days and have just spectacularly thrown up all over the bathroom. Im rarely sick, only when I was pregnant so now I am seriously concerned. I have had aversions to certain foods and also cravings.

Surely it's not possible? I haven't had a period since giving birth, just the regular post partum bleeding that stopped around 3 weeks ago.

Could I even take a test this soon? So many things are going through my mind right now i can't think straight.

Although there obviously is a possibility, you probably aren't. The nausea is probably your mind playing tricks on you out of fear.

Please use this as a shock to not use withdrawal again! Get some contraception guys

Just bought a test from the chemist. Will update soon

The withdrawal method is not a method of birth control, it's placing everything on pure chance. Absolute madness!

OP if you are pregnant and you had sex a week ago, it'd be far too early for you to be feeling nauseated by it. Try to destress :) Crossing fingers the test gives you the results that you want, and I hope your husband steps up to do his part with contraception from now on. Condoms until your pill is established.

Thinking of you op. Good luck

Good luck! Hope you got a First Response so you can just put this to bed. My money is still on mixed up hormones, post-partum hormone drop combined with the start of the pill! Fingers crossed!

Good luck

Before leaving hospital the nurse tells you not to have sex before sorting out contraception and asks you which contraception this they did with me both times I remember because it was mortifying as my mother was there

Done the test, it looks negative for now. I thought I could see the faintest hint of a line when I looked at in the light but I think it's my eyes playing tricks on me

@MsTSwift nothing was mentioned when I left hospital

Wishing you luck

You obviously need to test asap as if you have had unprotected sex you could be pregnant.

It also sounds as though you may be ovulating - sharp pains in ovary. Your hormones will still be settling down and this can lead to all sorts of symptoms, including nausea. My periods, and the associated pms changed after pregnancy. Add into all this, the hormones from the pill that you have just started.

However, go and get a test today. This will either put your mind at rest, or it will give you the opportunity to decide what to do about a pregnancy, which will be in the very early stages. Good luck.

Sadly, you are most fertile just after birth...when I had my 6 week check up the doctor asked about had we had sex yet and that he once had a lady go to her 6 week check pregnant 😱
My dad and brother were born in same year due to pregnant straight after birth!
Do a clear blue digital...very good test and picks up very early...I wasn't even quite 2 weeks and it showed it

People really shouldn't talk about the withdrawal 'method'. It's not a method (as PP say). I honestly have no idea why so many grown adults seem to think it is.

Hope you get the result you want, OP.

It is possible you're pregnant. Actually, this exact thing happened to my great grandmother. My grandmother's brothers were born like ten months apart - think they barely missed having them in the same year in school. It's a family thing here, I think, as it seems most women in my family start to ovulate immediately after giving birth, regardless of breastfeeding.

Still, the pulling out method is actually quite sure for most (!) people. Some men have sperm in pre-cum, but the vast majority don't. I read some research on it after DH and I tried that method once. So if you two have been using the pulling out method several times before,I wouldn't think he is one of those with sperm in pre-cum, but my question would rather be - did he actually remember to pull out?

Post a pic of the test!!

you used the withdrawal method twice and you're asking if you're pregnant and you're saying Jesus Christ to me?

Have used it for 14 years combined with knowing when I am fertile. I only got pregnant the two times we planned to be and that was like a military operation with taking temps and peeing on sticks.

Are people really this dense they don't know that having unprotected sex can result in pregnancy? Also that people have to be told by a nurse when leaving hospital to use contraception because it isn't so glaringly obvious?

You can get pregnant when you're breastfeeding. Can't believe people still think you can't.

I'm not breastfeeding

One day people will finally learn the withdrawal method isn't contraception

People who like to bash other people for their choice of contraceptive method are very tiresome IMO.

I used withdrawal with my ex for 10 years, never got pregnant. Both of us subsequently had DC with someone else (both at the drop of a hat, too, for the first DC anyway) so fertility wasn't an issue.

IMO it's a perfectly reasonable method of contraception in the context of a long term relationship where you know and trust each other well (as it depends on the skill of the man to pull out correctly) and where it wouldn't be a massive disaster if you got pregnant. Pretty much the same for condoms.

Failure rate is about 4% women pregnant in a year, if done correctly (around 22% if not).

That compares to 3% failure rate for condoms if used correctly (about 14% if not).

That compares to 85% of women who'll get pregnant in a year if actively trying, so that's a big difference.

I was answering PPs

The way people talk about withdrawal you'd think it was massively more risky that condoms, but there's hardly any difference in the stats for correct use.

I'm amazed you're having sex that soon after giving birth! Our sex life still hasn't recovered more than a year later 🥺

@lboogy I thought we'd be the same to be honest!

My test. I'd say it categorically looks negative