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21. I used it to GET Pregnant

Mon Oct 23, 2017, 08:07 AM

Oct 2017

after I had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and was left with only one fallopian tube. My OB/GYN told me to take my temperature every day to see when I was ovulating to maximize my odds of getting pregnant. It took 6 months to get pregnant with only one tube.

Would I use this method as birth control? Absolutely not. If the method failed to ACHIEVE a pregnancy, no harm done. As a means of birth control, failure would mean an unwanted pregnancy.

My husband got a vasectomy after our 2nd child was born.

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TRUMP WANTS TO REPLACE BIRTH CONTROL WITH THE DUBIOUS 'CALENDAR METHOD' [View all] RandySF Oct 2017 OP

maybe this will finally wake women up.. mountain grammy Oct 2017 #1

Usually.... SergeStorms Oct 2017 #17

You know what they call people who use this method? Liberal In Texas Oct 2017 #2

Ha! snowybirdie Oct 2017 #39

The calendar method isn't "dubious". Mariana Oct 2017 #3

It is dubious because there are a lot of women with irregular cycles Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2017 #24

And a bunch of men are making this decision SummerSnow Oct 2017 #27

My Mom had my older sister, me and my younger brother using rhythm system Marthe48 Oct 2017 #41

Seriously? Yes. moriah Oct 2017 #33

we're regressing to 1961 spanone Oct 2017 #4

more like 1861. ATL Ebony Oct 2017 #6

"The Handmaids tale".... SergeStorms Oct 2017 #18

I remember my Dad joking how they had "4 little rhythms williesgirl Oct 2017 #5

I thought this was going to be satire..... LeftInTX Oct 2017 #7

Oh Hell No! Glimmer of Hope Oct 2017 #8

As the National Lampoon once opined... TwistOneUp Oct 2017 #9

I hope the majority of people House of Roberts Oct 2017 #10

I shake my head Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #11

Trump seems like the guy who goes Bareback Motownman78 Oct 2017 #12

With that statement you realize they are not Doreen Oct 2017 #13

I know, pathetic excuses for men Motownman78 Oct 2017 #15

Even if a man kept his "promise," he could still get the woman pregnant. SunSeeker Oct 2017 #20

This sort of thing qwlauren35 Oct 2017 #14

There are all kinds of chains & attacks on our right to control our reproductive health is one kind. Solly Mack Oct 2017 #16

Please note that 'Newsweek couldn't independently verify the veracity of the memo' Stonepounder Oct 2017 #19

Especially after Newsweek publishing details about every Marilou... moriah Oct 2017 #48

I used it to GET Pregnant HockeyMom Oct 2017 #21

I was conceived with that method. nt zanana1 Oct 2017 #22

Someone should ask Trump point blank how many abortions he's paid for Orrex Oct 2017 #23

Why don't we just go back in time to the 50"s. onecent Oct 2017 #25

Catholics are promoting this... mreilly Oct 2017 #26

I bet Melania and Ivanka are not using the rhythm method SummerSnow Oct 2017 #28

I remember Trump talking about Melania on Howard Stern's show TexasBushwhacker Oct 2017 #49

Where the fuck does a politician get off telling anyone what birth control method to use??? LongTomH Oct 2017 #29

What happened to the too much government when Obama was Prez. SummerSnow Oct 2017 #50

I'm sure he always asks a woman to check her calendar spiderpig Oct 2017 #30

Aren't people that use the rhythm method called parents? n/t tammywammy Oct 2017 #31

That's how my youngest was conceived. Blaukraut Oct 2017 #32

My mother said she used the rhythem method Phentex Oct 2017 #36

My mother gave me one piece of advice LiberalBrooke Oct 2017 #34

Ha! See above... Phentex Oct 2017 #37

Says The Molester, Who Has. . . ProfessorGAC Oct 2017 #35

You know what they call people who use the rhythm method? MiniMe Oct 2017 #38

As a guy and thinking solely with my penis Victor_c3 Oct 2017 #40

I used the calendar method to get pregnant LeftInTX Oct 2017 #42

Teaching this to young women is worse than teaching them nothing. dawg Oct 2017 #43

Let him choose any method he wants rock Oct 2017 #44

Why is this "method" considered OK? BruceWane Oct 2017 #45

Satire is dead Proud Liberal Dem Oct 2017 #46

Anyone who says that the 2 parties are the same is lying & has an agenda. Madam45for2923 Oct 2017 #47

There was one family who filled an entire two rows of the Catholic Church I went to. redstatebluegirl Oct 2017 #51

And well meaning liberals yelled at me and called my hyperbolic when I said they were gonna Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #52

I come from a large Catholic family, thanks to the calendar method. :( Irish_Dem Oct 2017 #53

This is what the Catholic Church advocates TO THIS DAY NastyRiffraff Oct 2017 #54

Alternate title: Trump wants to replace science with workinclasszero Oct 2017 #55

My very Catholic SIL used the rhythm method. Freethinker65 Oct 2017 #56

Yeah I tried that once Madam Mossfern Oct 2017 #57