Contraception - what do you use post children, would you recommend etc?

[MamaG]

I got pg with BAbyG whilst on the pill, so I'm ruling that out

[expatinscotland]

sterilisation then?

both of you?

we use 'em, because DH won't get a vasectomy and i'm done having peoples' hands up my fanjo, stiches, piles, pregnancy, PND and all that jazz.

but if he had the snip i'd be glad to see the back of them.

[gigglewitch]

same as expat
The effect of three dc is contraception in itself...

[GossipMonger]

dh refuses

am thinking about being sterilised

We actually like condoms and it is much less messy with one!!

[expatinscotland]

i'd get sterilised if they rolled out the Essure method with just the local anaesthetic.

but i'm not having another GA, painful gas to bloat up my tummy and that risk of ectopic pregnancy after all i've been through giving birth to 3 children and one missed m/c.

[tokentotty]

So its very much sounding to me like IUDs are not popular....

[MamaG]

someone local to me was sterilised under local but when I asked GP she said i'd hvae to have a GA

I REALLY don't want anohter GA

Much asI love BabyG, I don't wnat anymore DC.

DH will not have snip.

[MamaG]

I went to family planning clinic and the Doc ws pushing me to have a coil. I looked at it and thought "nah"

[expatinscotland]

some people love 'em, token. when they suit you, they suit you well. when they don't, they don't!

[Shitemum]

expat - is persona 'safer' than just charting etc?

[expatinscotland]

'I went to family planning clinic and the Doc ws pushing me to have a coil. I looked at it and thought "nah"'

Oh my FPC basically bamboozled me into it.

I'm in the same position you are, MamaG.

So yeah, it's Persona and condom and he gets nothing during the fertile times.

If he doesn't like it, he knows how to pick upt he phone and ring the GP for an appointment to be referred for the snip.

[expatinscotland]

i can't be arsed charting, shitemum.

that's why i use persona.

[MamaG]

What is persona?

We're just using condoms (and am still breastfeeding which I think offers a smidge of protection!) but I really want to make sure I don't get pg again!

[expatinscotland]

it's an ovulation kit, mamag.

you pee on a stick to tell if you're ovulating or getting close to ovulating.

i can usually tell without it, because tbh i start getting, well, let's the say that men like the dark-haired bloke on MasterChef start to appear attractive (eeewww!).

but i really and truly don't want to get pregnant again, either.

[tokentotty]

Oh crap. Was really hoping to hear that 'yes we all have one and it's fab' reassurance. So, is there any way of researching which seem better than others or is it more a case of 'suck it and see' ? Or obviously abandoning the whole plan and going down another route...

[expatinscotland]

it's pretty much suck it and see.

and for me, it was months and moths of sucking it until they would take it out.

[MamaG]

Th ink I'll ask again about local for sterilisation - if not, its condoms until DH decides he's had enough then he can be snipped

[MamaG]

and UGH at the masterchef bloke!

[expatinscotland]

i think they only do a local for the Essure method.

the old method still uses the blow up your abdomen with gas, then use keyhole incisions to get in there and clip the tubes.

which means a GA.

no, thanks.

and no thanks to having my tummy blown up with gas.

ow.

[expatinscotland]

he's rank, mama, isn't he? but tonight he was seeming oddly appealing.

boak!

looks like he hasn't washed his hair in about a week.

and he's a smart arse, too.

[MamaG]

Yes he needs a good wash.

I had a sex dream about this bloke the other night and [vom]

[expatinscotland]

He looks like a convict, Mama.

But yeah, around my ovulation time, he'd start looking like Johnny Depp to me.

[expatinscotland]

at least, ross kemp still looks vile to me.

then i'd know i was really close to ovulation.

[MamaG]

lol - I used to have a thing for ross kemp

oh God and this man

I think I'd better go to bed in disgrace!

[expatinscotland]

Oh, man, MamaG, you need the Lasik eye procedure, not sterilisation .

[MamaG]

I was a strange teenager