Comments | schneckerock: where DO babies come from?

schneckerock

where DO babies come from?

Sep 16, 2007 20:57

first let me say one thing.. pregnancy is not caused by a lack of or failed birth control. pregnancy is caused by HAVING SEX.

I swear if not every week, then every-other-week, someone posts in pregnant saying "I have NO IDEA how I got pregnant! this is a TOTAL SURPRISE!!!" and then blah about what birth control they were using. and I really, really want ( Read more... )

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schneckerock September 17 2007, 21:32:19 UTC

heh. I didn't even mean this as a plug for NFP. but I think most people who get pregnant that way probably know they were being risky, doing things at "iffy" times, or what not. so it's still not really a surprise

greatestislove September 17 2007, 11:11:33 UTC

I always tell people that 1% of all fertile people is a helluvalot of people. Most of us will fall into that 1% every once in a while for something. You might be that 1% that has an allergy to over the counter medicine. Or that 1% that develops some "rare" disease. Maybe you are the 1% that smokes for 60 years and develops no lung damage.

No guarantees in life.

And while abstinence is a perfect method of birth control, in my experience it has a very high rate of user error.

schneckerock September 17 2007, 21:34:59 UTC

lol @ abstinence having a high rate of user error. while it's true, many an unplanned pregnancy has come from failed abstinence attempts, I still maintain it's not really a surprise. I mean, even if someone has sex at a time when they didn't plan to, they'd still know it happened and have 2 weeks to think about the possibility of pregnancy.

ghostsanddreams September 17 2007, 16:11:50 UTC

I think nowadays some programs say "safer sex" which is at least a tad bit more realistic.

But I've talked to a lot of people over the years, and the amazing thing is almost no one who took sex ed has any idea what the actual failure percentages for birth control are (and what they THINK they are is always on the it's almost impossible to get pregnant on birth control side.) If there is a single thing worth teaching kids in these classes, that would be it, but apparently not.

There is also the fact that there are two sets of statistics, perfect usage and real-life usage. Considering that teenagers are probably the set most likely to NOT have perfect usage in birth control, they should be taught the real life stats, which even then probably aren't as accurate as the real life teenager stats... but I don't think they are taught this set of numbers.

Then again people believe what they want anyway, not what they are taught.

kwokj September 18 2007, 20:50:01 UTC

and the stated rates are for one year. if you think about it over 3, 4, or more years, even the pill at 99.7% effective might not sound so reassuring.

schneckerock September 19 2007, 04:07:54 UTC

I know, and over in _marriedlife_ there's someone saying how happy she is on her 99.9% effective birth control because she would never abort but there's no way in hell she wants a baby any tie soon. and I'm like.. well, someone's got to be that .1%. that's a lot of people, not only considering the duration of the use, but the number of people who are also using it! more than 100, that's for sure...

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schneckerock September 19 2007, 04:10:37 UTC

oh, I know, but the people in pregnant are obviously planning on keeping, they just have no idea how the baby miraculously got inside them in the first place!

my baby is still baby enough that I'm not getting the itch yet.. we'll see after he learns to sit up and gets some teeth. I think it's the teeth that does it. that's when their whole facial appearance starts to change.