I'm more of a pro-lifer, but have made an exception for birth control.

And the reason birth control is an "exception" in my "pro-life" rule-book is because one of the ways it keeps you from getting pregnant is to prevent implantation, and I believe that's somewhat equivalent to an abortion. It's the difference to whether the fertilized egg is removed from the body before or after implantation.

I read about it in a physicians handbook on drugs. Shoot, what's one of those things called? Yikes. Mommy-brain or just losing my memory as I'm almost 40?

Oh, yeah. A PDR: Physicians Desk Reference.

Anyway, the pill prevents pregnancy in 3 ways:
1. Preventing ovulation,
2. Thickening up the mucous to make it hard for the sperm to make any headway, and if all else fails,
3. Preventing implantation of the fertilized egg.

However, it's estimated that, when we're trying to get pregnant, about 1/3rd of our fertilized eggs fail to implant. There hasn't been a scientific study, to my knowledge, so take that information with a grain of salt.

So, our own bodies may disallow implantation for reasons we don't understand, when we are trying to get pregnant, or not trying to prevent getting pregnant.

But if we're on the pill, we're probably having less incidence of fertilized eggs not implanting than when we're not on the pill. I think. Well, anyway, that's how I justified staying on the pill after I realized that the 3rd way it keeps us from getting pregnant is to prevent the fertilized egg from implanting... the fact that our bodies often naturally don't allow a fertilized egg to implant.

Yeah, I'm cutting corners on my morals. I didn't realize that the pill prevents implantation until I'd been on the pill for 10 years or so. :P Put me into shock.

So, really want to get my tubes tied the minute I'm SURE my husband doesn't want any more kids.

However, at month 5, I'm already thinking more kids would be cool, LOL. :)

I'm currently on the mini-pill while breast feeding. And I'm at 5 months, but still producing. But yeah, having a hard time sometimes keeping up the milk. But not sure if it's a mini-pill thing or not.

I find drinking some soy milk just before a feeding seems to help. That may be psychological, though.

Wow... I'm babbling. :)

I had an appointment with my GYN Friday and we discussed the Mirena IUD and she told me Insurance wouldn't cover it and it's $900, is this really TRUE?