Contraception aged 53?

[pandorawithtreaclecolouredhair]

Is there really any need to bother?
Surely a pregnancy at 53 would be Ten O'Clock News material?
Still having periods fairly regularly, just getting further apart for the last few months.
Just wondering what other mumsnetters do.

It is very hard to say whether HRT affected her fertility - one report says she took extra oestrogen before a romantic weekend away - so probably the sequential sort - which may have possibly given her the uterus lining to help the rogue ovulation and lottery winning fertilisation on its way. Who can say. There is no way of knowing as it was kept under wraps for 10 years, and no one does any studies.

I cannot find anything that tells you when you can give up contraception when you are on sequential hrt . I think that most women just do not bother long before that. I think a 'failure rate' of under 0.5% and rapidly falling is probably in line with many contraceptives and better than many. And yet........as someone who conceived twins in one go, I would prefer something more absolute.

It's progesterone that build the uterus lining, not simply oestrogen. At 59 it would be unlikely though not impossible she was on sequi HRT if she was post meno or had chosen to stick with sequi. (As I have.)

I can't remember precisely but think I gave up contraception around 53 which was when I started HRT and by which time I'd had a pelvic ultrasound which showed my ovaries were pretty depleted and shrivelled, and not likely to chuck out any more eggs.

Everyone has to make their own choice. There are still a number of births in between 45-50 and probably many early miscarriages which are not in the stats. Fertility is a joint venture- a highly fertile man may compensate for a less fertile woman and vice versa.