Hi Shazza, you asked me about the pill. I stopped taking it in early August this year. I had my first bleed after stopping the pill about 5 days after I stopped, which sent me into panic mode as my AFs had been so regular (not just to the day, but to the hour!) I completely obsessed that I might be bleeding willy nilly with no control at all - but that hasn't happened at all. I think it must have been a withdrawal bleed.
Within about a week of that, my mojo really got working and I couldn't stop thinking about sex. It's been two months now and I'm still like a dog on heat! I got beeped at yesterday because the lights turned green and I was fanticising about the guitar player in the band I saw on Monday night Note to self not to grin at the man beeping his horn behind my car when I realise what I've done next time this happens! And I've had simply unrepeatable thoughts about colleagues popping into my head at all times!
I've had two completely normal 28 day cycles now - each of them bob on, isn't that weird? I was expecting it to be much more chaotic than this, but my body seems to have adapted quite well and DH loves the new interest in sex, although he is finding it a little bit hard to keep up with me. We've swapped roles in this respect, but it won't do him any harm to know what it's like to feel badgered for a while.
Anyway, I'm having so much fun since I came off the pill, that I informed DH last night I'm never going back off it. We'll take as long as it takes to have enough children (I don't really know how many "enough" is, I'm hoping I'll know when I get there) and then he's having the snip. So there.