Family Planning

I recently met a friend whose capacity to give birth was affected by family planning drugs or what you would call the pills. She is very bitter with her doctor and life in general. Needless to say that I had a house help who always had a swollen leg and when I asked her what happened, she would say that it was the family planning injections that almost cost her leg, and now she has to live with a swollen leg all her life.

Last year, two of my friends conceived while using a family planning option. Granted, they are not a 100% guarantee, but when it becomes the story in town over and over again, you start to question their validity.

Someone else will  tell you- that there is no need to worry when you are breastfeeding, that you are well protected and sorted! I have a friend who was pregnant within the four months of breastfeeding because she trusted that theory.

But I also have amazing theories of people who use the safe days-God bless them!!!!I do not know how they do it. At least I know that is not my path unless I want to use the literal meaning of filling the earth.

So really, what is left of us to do? I am very careful to say this is good and or this is bad. Because for sure, everything varies. I decided to blog on this topic because people have requested me to just talk about it and I am not even sure what to say. BUT I think we must all make an informed choice on this subject, read wide as much as we can before we make a move and don’t take anything as gospel truth unless you have the facts and figures.

I started using the Pill a month before I got married, because I did not want to get pregnant during our honeymoon, what I did not know was that the same pill would drastically reduce my libido as a woman, make me irritable and the like. By the time we had our honeymoon, I had such low libido if any and to be honest, all I wanted to do was swim and swim and swim! That did not go well with my newly wedded husband!

So I decided no more hormones in my body. Best of all, I decided to read wide on the subject and to learn from other women who have gone before!

So what’s your story? Any helpful tips?