For those of you who are using/have used the withdrawal method?

[Ineedtosleep79]

Do you always avoid your fertile window or not and how long have you been practising the method for?

And has anyone ever had a slip up?

Many many beautiful babies will testify to this being a fairly unreliable method of you are fertile.

I did this. Currently feeding my six week old! Didn’t have sex during the fertile window. Ovulated very early when I had covid and voila!

Also tried this method and voila - was pregnant within 2 months (avoiding my fertile window)

It’s not a method,

HTH

I ended up at BPAS. It's not a good idea.

I have a 30 year old niece due to her parents using the Russian roulette method of contraception. Mum had pre eclampsia and an emergency section, niece diagnosed on the spectrum, the parents marriage broke up as a result, and the father hardly saw her again. Unfortunately she cannot be without her mother or a carer, father has no interest whatsoever, and mum is petrified of dying and leaving her.
So yes, people slip up.

What’s that?

i got the new pregnant like this too. You could use natural cycles. I used this method when we knew we wanted a second but weren’t actively trying.

It's not a method, it's an old joke:
What do you call people who use the withdrawal method?
Parents.

Surely none of that stuff was because of their method of contraception??

I didn’t say it was.

I have 2 niece's as a result of this 'method' 😁

BPAS provide abortions

So why have you provided irrelevant waffle? How’s that going to help the OP?

Anyway, the method isn’t reliable, they teach this stuff in school.

We used withdrawal for 2 years only avoided sex during my period worked perfectly for us

To show how using that method affected someone’s life. You don’t need to read my posts.

Fertile window can be diffirent every month. Only use it if you want more kids but want to Leah’s it up to nature.

We are 15 years into using this method alone. No slip ups. We don't avoid my fertile window (I wouldn't even know when it was) and we are particularly fertile people (pregnant first time)

Used this method for years- didn’t bother avoiding my fertile window. Worked perfectly . Your partner must withdraw every time , but if they are reliable , it’s about 96% effective according to planned parenthood.

(I have been pregnant 4 times so no fertility issues- found it v easy to conceive when I chose to.)

Thanks everyone. Judging by the wildly varying responses it seems to me like it's mostly down to whether the man has sperm in his precum or not. I've read that some do and some don't.

It really does seem to be like what I've heard as the "Vatican roulette" 😂

We have used this for 10 years. Also with thought that a happy accident would be nice . But no pregnancy until we actually decided to conceive. It did take quite an effort from OH at the start though and full trust needed.

Used it "successfully" for 12 months, tracking fertile window etc.

Currently 6 months pregnant, it's not fool proof apparently (and we're a pair of fools - though everyone's delighted at the news)

Yup, 3rd baby (in 4 years) as a result and is now 18 months old.

She's awesome but my god I'm knackered.

I understand that hormonal contraception is not for everyone (me included) but there are safer alternatives.

Hi @Sailawaygirl I'm guessing as you didn't mind a happy accident, you didn't track your fertile window when you were using this method?

We’ve always done this and it’s always worked. When I wanted to get pregnant, I got pregnant very quickly both times (one day of ‘trying’ resulted in a baby both times), so it can’t be because I’m not very fertile.
I do say, ‘be extra careful because I’m ovulating’ and it’s not a frequent thing during ovulation.
It doesn’t come without risk but OH has never slipped up and always leaves a few seconds of safety, iyswim

I wouldn’t go telling anyone to safely practice it, though!