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, 1 reply)

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)