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THE MORNING AFTER PILL??? (72 hours to take)

I didn't use a condom. I admit it. But since I was told years ago that I was infertile because my insides were so messed that I could never become pregnant and I was in a relationship I saw no need. So surprise, surprise when I go to the dr. for a urinary tract infection which turns out to be a 4 week old pregnancy. I am very happy, not with the dad anymore, but very happy. Just because women are single and pregnant does not mean their pregnancies were unwanted. I have been jumping for joy for the past 4 months. Don't preach to me that I should have used a condom.

You guys who keep saying the morning after pill know that those aren't completely effective either, right? I would know, after the condom breaking ordeal, I went to the health department the very next day, and the worker told me that the pills SHOULD stop an unwanted pregnancy, but they don't always work. The reason I know that it doesn't always work is because my youngest son is now 10 months old. That was the only time I had a condom break on me and it was the first time I had s_x after giving birth to my first son and didn't haves_x again until after my delayed post-partum check up...just to be told I was pregnant again. So yeah, I had a double whammy, broken condom then failed EC. I guess my baby was just determined to be here.

woooooooooooow Mommy.... you were MEANT to have that baby.

I do not understand something. Condoms and birth control are both 98% to 99% effective. It seems to me that every girl that gets pregnant was using both of them..........yeah right. I got pregnant and I know how it happened. I was not as responsible as I should have been, but I am pregnant by the only guy I have ever had s_x with, and I am the only girl he has ever had s_x with. I am 18 and getting my nursing degree, and getting married in June. Baby is due in may, luckily during spring break. The baby's daddy is paying all of my bills so I can go to school full time, and we had been together for over three years before I got pregnant. I honestly wish I would have waited, but I am in a lot better situation that most of these girls on here. I am sorry but birth control and condoms together have a very high efficiency rate, over 98% almsot 99% effective. I do not think that that little 1% covers all of these girls who claim to be using both and still get pregnant. They may have a prescription for birth control but dont take them properly, or use condoms every great once in a while just to say they did. They wanted to get pregnant because they think it is cute and want attention.

im guilty of not wearing condoms. I guess some of us still have that, " it won't happen to me " att_tude. Im 27 now but when I was 18-22 I was quite permiscuous taking chances by not wearing condoms or using birth control and letting them sometimes ejaculate inside me. Man oh man was I the biggest, naive, dumbest, idiot !!!!!! THANK GOD I never got pregnant or got AIDS. But when I was 19 I did catch an STD that was curable with anti biotics. I was very lucky playing roulette with my life like that. I was an educated girl, good head on my shoulders, good life in a good neighborhood with good parents and yet I still didn't take precautions. Thats the reality of it.....people think it simply wont happen to them. But these days I'd say one out of 5 friends has had a brush with being pregnant or an std..80% of women have warts now !!!!!!

I didn't use a condom I was told I couldnt have children and I was in a monogomous (sp?) relationship... I saw no need for one since me and him got tested together more than once... after losing a lot of weight (with his help) I found out I was pregnant... I'm not with him anymore but I'm thrilled about this baby and he *seems* to be also... why should I look at this as a bad thing... I would never want my baby to think they were a mistake even if we didnt mean to get pregnant... God meant for me to, and with His help I will make the best of this situation

I think the poster meant people who are having s_x with multiple partners and not protecting themselves. If you are having s_x with only one, then you know who got you pregnant. I also find it very nutty to see post about people trying to guess who fathered their child because of being careless. It goes beyond getting pregnant, it's about not catching something for your personal health. Then they want everyone else to help narrow down who the father could be, when that should be so unnecessary. I don't think the poster was starting a bad post. I think he/she was simply bringing to light something that is realistic. You see so many people asking who the father is. So this person simply asked a question that I'm sure many of us wonder about when we see such posts. I think with so many young ladies reading this site, it is a question that should be asked.

I was on the pill and we used a condom, and i am seriously thinking im pregnant, so what? im a horrible dirty girl now? bcuz ive only slept with one man my whole life but our protection failed and we may very well likely be having a baby together...i guss i am horrible...?

maybebaby you clearly didnt read the posts she the original poster said that there is no reason to NOT KNOW who the father of your baby is inless your carless. Clearly you do know who the father is and you just had a problem with your protection failing. When you look at it like that no your not a "dirty girl" the poster was refering to the countless amount of people coming on asking who is the daddy kinda questions.

You know, sometimes there are psychological reasons for women having over-active s_x lives and multiple partners. I agree that you should use condoms during s_x, BUT people should really think before they post stuff like this, ok? Sometimes, what might make perfect sense to you, does not to others. Try and be a little more sensitive. People are who they are and there are a MILLION different reasons why they are the way they are.

I was in a relationship for 4 years and was on the pill. 9 months a go me and my boyfriend had a fight and that night I ended up getting a bit drunk and sleeping with a friend. (an awful thing to do I know) but people make mistakes. I made him wear a condom as although the pill protects against pregnancy it obviously doesnt protect against stds. The condom broke that night, I wasn't too worried as I was also on the pill which I took properly and had done for 4 years. Me and my friend decided that we had made a mistake and we should not have done it and I went back to my boyfriend and admitted everything. It turns out I am pregnant and I now do not know which one is the father of my baby as I always had protected s_x. We will obviously have to sort this all out once the baby is born. What I do know is that this baby is going to be so so loved and so well looked after whatever the outcome is. I don't think that I was at all careless or stupid when it came to birth control but It just goes to show that this baby is really obviously meant to be in this world and sometimes birth control really does fail!

Fantastic answer, stephgts!

We've been together for 3 years, both of us are clean and so we stopped using condoms mainly because they made s_x painful for me. We used spermcide AND withdrawal. A whole spermicide tablet for a few drops of pre-ejaculate really should have worked, but ALAS, it did not. Oh, and I think you're an a**hole.

I hope not everyone on here thinks that a condom prevents STDs...they DON'T. Quite a few are transmitted skin to skin contact, and a few of those are untreatable. This guest must not have realized that condoms are never 100% effective against either.

Condoms are 98-99% effective in laboratory settings, but under real-world conditions (which are prone to human error), the actual pregnancy prevention effectiveness rate is around 86% (which means 14% will get pregnant while using a condom). You can check it out for yourself on the FDA website at http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1997/conceptbl.html.