Morning after pill got me pregnant?

[Peachyplumm]

Hi all,

really random question but I was wondering if anyone knew something about this.

so I’ve been ttc for months now and it’s a bit of a surprise how difficult it is when before this I used to really worry getting pregnant!

im 28, have pcos (lean), my cycles are about 40-55 days long. Before I was ttc I used the bbt method to avoid ovulation and never got pregnant, except for one time.

that accidental pregnancy happened around the time id had the morning after pill twice over 2 cycles. I remember it made me bleed almost like a new period every time I took it. The second time I took morning after pill, I bled, and then 3 weeks later got pregnant.

Now that I’m actually ttc’ing I realise I’m not ovulating every cycle. So I’m wondering if that period where i had morning after pills somewhat triggered ovulation? I know it delays it for the time being but I wonder if it resets ovulation somehow, especially for someone with pcos. Because before then and after then I haven’t seemed to caught even though I didn’t use protection & later actively trying.

Just wondered if anyone else experienced this :)

Well an awful lot of scientific discoveries happen by accident (by men or by women then men claim it as their own).
I know nothing of hormones or the MAP. If I did I could probably answer, but if you were a scientist or of a scientific bent, you'd experiment and take it and see.
Please report back!

A bit tangential, but how does using bbt as contraception work?! I mean it can only confirm ovulation after the event! And similarly with OPKs, if you're waiting until the peak to abstain then a lot of people are going to be caught out in the days leading up to it....

I suspect the answer is that "natural" family planning only works if your cycles are absolutely textbook and a few test cycles then allows you to predict when are likely to be the dangerous days....

That’s true maybe it’s worth trying! Haha. I also thought of it because I’m trying soy isoflavones for the first time this cycle. It works a bit like clomid to trigger ovulation. So wondered if the morning after pill did a similar reset. We’ll see!

I remember reading a book about it, I forgot the name but it’s where I first ever learned of BBT. And yeah as contraception you’d only be able to have unprotected sex after ensuring you already ovulated (3 temps above baseline). Before ovulation I’d have to use protection - but even then I only ever used ‘pull out’, so makes sense now that I learned I don’t ovulate every time. It wasn’t just luck lol