The Gift of Family and Fertility

[dairyfreelife]

Carol's post talks about fertility being God-designed. However, the only time she addresses infertility is to blame the pill in other posts. There are plenty of couples who waited until marriage and did not take the pill and still ended up infertile. Plenty of couples don't wait and use the pill and are plenty fertile. Wisdom apparently doesn't always come with age.

Exclusive breastfeeding diminishes fertility naturally and helps to space children.

Not true for everyone. My mother exclusively breastfed my younger siblings and she said her fertility came back rather quick. My mother never had any problems getting pregnant and if she had followed the advice of no birth control, I think she easily would have had a dozen or so children. Thank god she didn't. Just imagining my father with that many children... :? :lol:

Hormone replacement therapy has been found to increase heart disease, stroke and cancer. The birth control pill contains the same hormones.

carolvanderwoude.authorweblog.com/articles/2012/05/54580/the-gift-of--

[AllisonWndrland]

I get so tired of reading blog posts like this. I think back to the woman I saw on a pregnancy board who suffered her fifth miscarriage. I guess she wasn't godly enough, despite being very religious. I don't believe in a god at all, so I guess I just got lucky with my three babies.

Also, hello, all! First post and I felt like I should announce it, which seems vaguely weird as I type it....

[alba]

You know what else contains the same hormones as HRT? Women's bodies!

I also really hate fearmongering to encourage people to have children. Children should be something that's desired, not something produced as a safeguard against cancer. I use hormonal BC, and I have no intention of having a child, meaning I'll never breastfeed. I'm not ignorant of the fact that both of these marginally increase my risk of breast cancer.

The way she writes you'd think that there were no risks associated with pregnancy and childbirth :roll:

The fact that medical science can miss on what is best for women is exemplified by the consumer report regarding childbirth choices.

Click here.

That consumer report? US only. She fails to note that the countries the report states the US is falling behind on, like Canada and Japan, also use medical science to deliver babies. I don't know why I bother criticising the logic of some fundies.

[luckystone]

I find it hilarious how many people blame the pill for infertility - go to other boards and it's full of not only people getting pregnant after they stop the pill, but people who missed a day and got pregnant!

[AmyP]

I think the early birth control pills had much higher hormone dosages, and did cause some problems for some women. Or at least this was widely believed at the time. It has created a lingering mythology about birth control pills supressing ovulation in women even after they stop taking it.

[dawbs]

I think the early birth control pills had much higher hormone dosages, and did cause some problems for some women. Or at least this was widely believed at the time. It has created a lingering mythology about birth control pills supressing ovulation in women even after they stop taking it.

To some extent, some of them can

It took me a year post-depo to ovulate again.

But I knew that when I started depo and when I stopped.

And they do now have good drugs to 'kick start' if you don't start again naturally ;)

[Nothing2CHere]

I find it hilarious how many people blame the pill for infertility - go to other boards and it's full of not only people getting pregnant after they stop the pill, but people who missed a day and got pregnant!

Here's my story - I stopped taking my birth control pills last July. That September, I managed to conceive, even though I think we only had sex twice the entire month (it was a stressful time, we thought we were moving and had to get the old house on the market, not very conducive to trying to make a baby). I had been on the pill (ortho-tri cyclen) for about 10 years, I think. And I'm 36! I must be way holier than some of these fundies, the way I was able to conceive LittleBabyNothing so easily! :lol:

[silvia]

To some extent, some of them can

It took me a year post-depo to ovulate again.

But I knew that when I started depo and when I stopped.

And they do now have good drugs to 'kick start' if you don't start again naturally ;)

Yes, I think it can vary a lot. In my case, I was on the pill for about 10 years, and when I came off, my periods were really whacked-out at first (lots of spotting in the luteal phase, short luteal phases, etc., whereas pre-pill they were completely regular) and took a while to start re-normalizing. As a result, it took me longer than I think it would have otherwise to conceive--I'm 15 weeks pregnant now. From what I've learned reading up on "post-pill amenorrhea" and similar conditions, long-term pill use can throw off the hypothalamic-pituitary axis in some women, and hormone secretion can take a while to level out after you stop taking it. I was freaked out enough by the aftereffects that I've decided I'm not going to use the pill again, probably ever.

That said, whatever effects long-term pill use may have on fertility are most likely temporary and do not occur in all women, not by a long shot. It just depends on your individual body chemistry.

[snarkykitty]

I know of several women who didn't use birth control, didn't try to avoid the more fertile time of the month, and basically threw caution to the wind, and they each "only" had two or three kids.

Then you have the women who did everything they could to avoid having kids (outside of abstinence), and those swimmers broke through anyway.

And lastly, there are women who, if they didn't take precautions, they'd have a dozen or more kids. One of my friends was having kids like clockwork every other August - five of them, spaced out every two years. It became a running joke that she gave her husband great birthday gifts (his bday is the end of October).

Everyone is different. Life is funny like that.