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Falling pregnant while on the Pill

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ohgoonthen · 14/05/2010 12:29

Please someone tell me that I am not going absolutely mad!!

I have been on the pill for almost 10 years with no problems, my most recent one was Marvelon which I have been taking for 4 years.
I have never ever forgotten to take it (I mark days and dates in my diary), any time I have been sick I have been extra careful and I have recently been a bit paranoid about it as we don't live in the UK anymore and I have to get Pills in advance, so I stress.

Now at the end of Jan, having finished my usual monthly pack at end of Dec, I realised I might be pregnant, couldn't quite believe it so waited and waited then tested, sure enough it was positive. Me and DH both very happy and very shocked.
Went for first Doctors appointment and he said he had never ever heard of someone becoming pregnant while on the pill and still refuses to believe me! I kept pressing him on the issue as I was worried because obviously, I would have still been taking it after I had concieved and wanted to know if I could have caused any harm to baby. He didn't know. Took him two weeks to research and phone coleagues before he could answer me!
He is one of the most popular and well respected baby docs here!

My DH doesn't quite believe me either, he says little things now and again that tell me theres a part of him that thinks I engineered this whole thing.

Not that all this matters in the grand scheme of things as baby is much wanted and loved but I do feel like a bloody fraud!

Has this happened to anyoneone else or must I have done something wrong without realising?

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ktwiltshire · 14/05/2010 12:36

I doubt you have done anything wrong. i fell pregnant with both DD1 and DD2 on the pill, and my mum also fell pregnant with me on the pill, and her GP didnt believe her, but eventually she got a scan and she was already 5months gone!

Violet5 · 14/05/2010 12:38

It happened to me on Marvelon and i was made to feel like a big fraud by people too so you have my sympathy. I already had 4 children (2 of which are disabled) i definately didn't want another child at that time. We worked it out though and had the baby which has turned out to be our gorgeous little girl.

If your baby is much loved and wanted then i hope like i did you'll find that in time its behind you. Its awful when people don't believe you but i wish you all the best and stuff what anyone else thinks

munchkinland · 14/05/2010 13:24

I fell pregnant on the pill and so did my sister, she also fell on the injection and now has an implant as obviously nothing else worked - she was made to feel awful by docs too....but you can't "forget" or cancel the injection!!

I think some women are just extremely fertile - Oh and I didn't find out until I was 3 months pg, and absolutely nothing wrong with my DD, so odubt the pill has any side effects on the baby.

Congrats on your pregnancy!!

minipie · 14/05/2010 13:54

Your doc is being daft. The Pill is 99% effective... someone has to be that 1%.

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ohgoonthen · 14/05/2010 14:16

Minipie I know the doc is just being daft and was always aware of the very small risk, I was just always so careful to make sure it didn't happen! Still doesn't stop me wanting to slap him though, he treats me like the miracle woman!

Thankfully, we have always wanted children, we are just in an awful position at the mo and a baby was really the last thing on our minds! I'm absolutely chuffed though

Munchkin - I have put it down to just being very fertile! Doc has assured me that there should be no effects on baby and everything has been textbook so far! Am just worried now that after she is born, we will have to sleep in seperate houses incase we have another little surprise!

Thank you all for your kind words, it has made me feel loads better! Am just adopting a "stuff them" attitude and can't wait till September !

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MadameCheese · 14/05/2010 14:23

Exactly minipie, they're not 100% effective, stoopid Doc. My Dad's chum (a gp) had 2 failed vasectomies!

munchkinland · 14/05/2010 15:14

ohgoonthen why not think about the implant?? might be a little less disruptive than having to buy a new house!!!
sis has been fine with that.

sonsmum · 14/05/2010 15:41

The pill is 99.9% effective, if it is taken properly.
'not taken properly' can mean a dose was missed or taken at incorrect time, or that the pill was not absorbed properly, i.e. sickness/vomitting or digestion issues preventing the active ingrediants of the pill entering your system.

So many clinical trials have been conducted to prove it is 99.9% unlikely to fall pregnant if the pill is taken corrcetly.

Not saying any of you engineered a pregnancy but somehow the pill was not absorbed into your systems.

mumatron · 14/05/2010 16:08

my ds was conceived while i was having depo injections, 6 weeks before i was due to have my next jab iirc

dd after being on the pill for 2 years, 100% certain i never missed one.

somethings are just meant to be

Missus84 · 14/05/2010 16:13

Even if it is 99.9% effective, someone has to be that 0.01%. Millions of women take the pill, so some are always going to fall pregnant on it.

HotSprocket · 25/05/2010 21:59

I got pregnant while on the pill..doctor didn't believe i had taken it properly either. I think he thought i was young and stupid.
After i did 2 tests i went to docs to confirm and he didn't even want to test me as "it couldn't be possible"
pfft..tell that to my month old baby girl.
I think she was just determined to get here

strawberrycake · 25/05/2010 22:51

I think it's simple, if it doesn't say it's 100% then it isn't 100%!

CarGirl · 25/05/2010 22:54

If you are stressed it can increse your metabolism which can stop you absorbing it as you should.

knackered76 · 26/05/2010 07:41

I didn't get pregnant on the pill but did conceive after the morning after pill, taken within 12 hours. The reaction I got was, ohhh, that's unusual! As said above, someone has to be the .1% it's not effective for DH and I like to say our son was clearly meant to be!

nickschick · 26/05/2010 07:51

Thats exactly how we got our lovely ds3 .

I was so sure I couldnt be pregnant that I didnt even stop taking my pill and only went to the doctors when I had a slight bleed and dh insisted I take a test -which obviously was a positive .

Went to GP couldnt explain the bleeding and was sent to the hospital thinking I was having a very early miscarriage only to find I was almost 17 weeks .

Ds3 is now 9 and if wed waited we would never have got him,the Gp said even sterilisation has its 'accidents' and the only way of not getting pregnant was to say no! but even that didnt stop one virgin falling pregnant ........

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