Has anyone ever got pregnant using withdrawal method?

[kittycat337]

Hi everyone. My boyfriend and I have been together a year and half and due to me not tolerating hormonal contraception (I tried 4 different pills and had awful side effects with all of them :( with one of them I was even spotting every single day for 3 months. we decided to give up on those and do the withdrawal method. Has anyone fell pregnant using this method?? He pulls out quite early and not at the last second.

Yes!

Yes, me - twice!

Used it for ten years, I have a three year old and am 7 months pregnant again

Oh gawd - yeah just use condoms!!

Yes me. At 18.

It’s called the Catholic Method in my country

With a child born about every 2 years (ie about 12 kids per family)

It’s not safe at all

Condoms a better bet

@C0NNIE

Don’t be silly, it’s not reliable. Use condors and use them properly.

Do they just spread their wings out to stop the bloke getting close?

Condors extreme birth control!

Worked for us over the course of about 12 years and two (planned) children. BUT I tracked periods and used condoms during ovulation. And getting pregnant wouldn’t have been the end of the world.

Many many millions of people have fallen pregnant with that method. If you want kids keep on. If not then do something more.

Wow so many of you did!!! Yup I definitely won’t rely on it. Glad I asked now (we only started this method a couple weeks ago or so). My period is due on Monday so let’s see!! I am 27, a baby wouldn’t be ideal right now as my bf and I don’t live together yet and to be honest we never really talked about conceiving babies yet. I will keep you posted next week to let you know if my period came or not (we have used this method during my fertile window)

I think it's a very reliable method of contraception...I swore by this method for 10 years. But then all of a sudden DS happened (now 4)

That said, it did succeed avoid pregnancy during 10 years of pretty regular sex, (DS2 we conceived in month 1 of trying so known no fertility issues)

So although pretty reliable, not as reliable as I thought and I probably wouldn't chance it again.

Everyone who got pregnant using this method, do you mean to say your partner pulled out before ejaculating and you still got pregnant?

@borntohula

Everyone who got pregnant using this method, do you mean to say your partner pulled out before ejaculating and you still got pregnant?

There is sperm in precum

"Everyone who got pregnant using this method, do you mean to say your partner pulled out before ejaculating and you still got pregnant?"

Yes. Always pulled out well in time. I got pregnant once after 10 years of regular sex (withdrawal every time) so I think the chances are low based on those personal stats.

@TomasinaTiers

It’s called the Catholic Method in my country

With a child born about every 2 years (ie about 12 kids per family)

It’s not safe at all

Condoms a better bet

In my family we call it Vatican Roulette!

I don’t know what it says about me that condoms autocorrects to condors

Yes, happened to me - she’s 4 in a couple of weeks

@kittycat337

Wow so many of you did!!! Yup I definitely won’t rely on it. Glad I asked now (we only started this method a couple weeks ago or so). My period is due on Monday so let’s see!! I am 27, a baby wouldn’t be ideal right now as my bf and I don’t live together yet and to be honest we never really talked about conceiving babies yet. I will keep you posted next week to let you know if my period came or not (we have used this method during my fertile window)

You haven’t discussed babies yet but you’ve been having sex with no protection. At the age of 27. Well done.

I wouldn't be here if it worked....

@C0NNIE

I don’t know what it says about me that condoms autocorrects to condors

Literally only good things

No, never. Been using it (on and off) since I was 15. Though this thread makes me concerned fertility-wise if it's so common!

@slipperywhensparticus I know there is sperm in precum but I've been led to believe you are far less likely to get pregnant as a result of that than this thread indicates.

[quote borntohula]@slipperywhensparticus I know there is sperm in precum but I've been led to believe you are far less likely to get pregnant as a result of that than this thread indicates.[/quote]
Less likely yes impossible no

I've used the withdrawal method for 10 years with dh. No unwanted pregnancies, then we decided to have a baby and got pregnant on the first month. So it can work if you trust your partner implicitly to pull out in plenty of time.

Erm no... Been on the pill the whole time until 2 weeks ago. Then we thought of doing the withdrawal method as we were so damn sure that it was not possible to get pregnant with no ejaculation inside. No we didn’t discuss about having babies just yet. But all other people using this method don’t want one either. Thank you.