ClostGoth

Wife, who's now a member, would like to change the original post... The first was NOT the pill - he was condoms with spermicide. The second was Norplant - in fact, he was also a twin and I miscarried one before they realized I was pregnant and took the damn rod out. (The surgery to remove Norplant is quite gruesome - I thought mojo was going to faint!) The third was Depo Provera and I've been on four or five different kinds of pills - had miscarriages on two of them. The others seemed to work pretty well, and we did combine methods more than once. Honestly, it looks like just not having sex is our only option. (as if that could ever happen!) My tubes were successfully tied and our littlest is three years old... Nothing yet. Honestly, though, I just seem to _think_ the word and I am. It wouldn't surprise me terribly if I still manage to get pregnant. If so, mojo will have to go get snipped. Maybe with both of us "fixed" we'll be finished with child bearing. It's a good thing we wanted a large family to begin with or we'd be pretty stressed... And I, Mrs. Totally Predictable Monthly, haven't bled since February. *takes a deep breath* I would be willing to possibly believe human error on the first, but we didn't have any busted condoms (or "unskilled"? usage??). And having thyroid issues on and off would also lead me to believe that my chemistry just wouldn't allow the hormonally based methods to work. I would never lie to my mojo, just as an aside. And it's not as if the kids weren't wanted. We did plan to have a large family - we just didn't plan on six miscarriages, a still birth, or the fact that being pregnant is so hard on me physically. We also didn't plan on having them that early or that close together. We're still planning on adopting and are foster parents. We love our kids and have a beautiful family that I wouldn't trade for anything! We both kind of shrugged and figured it was meant to happen. I'll tell you, I've had ten or twelve different doctors all across the country shaking their heads (taking more blood!) and trying to make certain I'm not going to sue for malpractice. *grin* As far as sheer numbers go, the two or three different pills I mentioned covered the MOST amount of time pregnancy-free. SO it wasn't _all_ hormones my body hates, just a few. Or perhaps those times were also times in which I had a happier thyroid? *shrugs*

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