Nope.
Fertility Awareness, a 1-3% failure rate.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 20:32, 4 replies)

We tried it for a month or two
but I got pregnant so easily with my eldest child (planned) that I was permanently scared shitless. I went back on the pill so I could start enjoying sex again! After our second child we agreed that was enough and he went off for the snip. Best thing ever, but not for everyone.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Mon 27 Oct 2008, 20:37, closed)

3%??!
Thats too high for my liking. I know condoms are only 1%, which is still to high in my liking. I'm sure I;ve done it way over 100 times (Not with 100 different people, duh) so 3% would mean 3 kids for me so far...
(engekomkommer, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 20:48, closed)

Condoms have a 'perfect' failure rate of 2%
and again, that's over one year of use, with perfect use. With less-than-perfect use condoms have a failure rate of about 10-18%, but despite being flippant in my original post, I do think condoms are well worth it for situations where you might catch something nasty. But I still begrudge paying for them.

Maybe condom users should get a tax break since they aren't adding to the population and they aren't contracting diseases?
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 20:53, closed)

Over a year of use?
Doesn't he take it off?
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 11:01, closed)

That's where they've been going wrong!
It does save money though.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 12:24, closed)

Mirena coil
free from NHS, more reliable than getting your tubes tied, only side effect is lighter or absent periods. You can get pregnant immediately after removal. I don't know why more women don't get this. I am in complete control of my fertility now.

My doc used to give me condoms for free. So did the Brooke clinic but they stop giving your stuff when you're over 25, the tight bastards.
(posthumous mince is tiptoeing through the tulips, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 12:59, closed)

Can you take it out yourself?
I don't want anything in me that I can't take out myself, so I'm guessing that's probably not going to be an option. Also, isn't it hormone-based? That's a big no-no for me.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 13:17, closed)

The amount of hormone in it is tiny
But if you want to be able to take it out yourself (ouch!) then it's not ideal.

I think it's fab though - no more periods but I can have it whipped out should I want to produce more Nuggets.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 17:11, closed)

Ahhh, the good old rhythm method
Not to scare you unduly, but I've a cautionary tale for you.

I was an accident. My parents, two reasonably intelligent people, tried scheduling their fucking according to the calendar. That didn't work for very long, as I miraculously appeared in my mummy's tummy. (My birthday is in mid-January, and I was born a couple of weeks late. I've done the maths and I'm convinced I was conceived as an April Fool's joke.) Parents, nil, cunning devious sperm, one.

Three years later they planned for my brother, not wanting an only child.

Three years after that, along came my sister, another calendar-driven miracle. I guess my reasonably intelligent parents weren't so bright after all. Either that, or my dad had super sperm, or something.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 21:34, closed)

Not quite. The rhythm method
is calendar-based and isn't the same as fertility awareness/NFP (which tracks ovulation). The rhythm method is less reliable, as you yourself prove... :)
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 21:38, closed)

Hmmm
That's what I used to GET pregnant.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 23:29, closed)