natural pregnancy avoidance?

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Hi, is anyone using this app to avoid pregnancy naturally? I'm 24 and have been on the pill for years! But after recently reading an article I want to come off and seek other options which are better for me and don't mess with the hormonal system. I've heard about people learning their ovulation cycles to avoid. Is anyone here doing this that could shed some more light on the situation? You would be a great help! Xx

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I used this app to keep track of my basal body temperature and periods. For me that was enough to know exactly when I ovulated. My cycles are also exactly 28 days every month so that really helps.

To measure your temperature, keep a BBT thermometer (super accurate compared to a regular thermometer) by your bed, and take your vaginal temperature at the exact same time every morning before you even sit up in bed. That means you may have to wake up early on weekends just to take it at the same time as you do on weekdays. Record your temperature in the app, and it will chart it for you. After a few months of doing this, you will see a pattern where your temperature goes up by at least 0.4 degrees somewhere in the middle of your cycle. The higher temperature then needs to stay up until your period starts. That's how you know that you ovulated 1-2 days before that temperature spike.

It also helps to keep track of your cervical mucus. When you have the kind with egg white consistency, it's a good indicator that you're ovulating.

Lastly, you have to decide what strategy you're using. Remember that sperm can survive up to 5 days in your body. I took the super safe approach and didn't even risk having sex between my period and ovulation. I didn't want the sperm sticking around until my egg came out. I waited until I saw my temperature spike, which meant I was about 1-2 days past my ovulation. I gave it an extra 3 days after that just in case, and to be sure that my temperature was really staying up. Then I had unprotected sex for abour 1-1.5 weeks until my next period came. Any other time we used condoms.

We stayed baby-free for 10 months, until we were ready to try to conceive, and got pregnant on our first try :)

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I used this app to track my fertile periods. I didn't want b/c pills.. I'm pregnant again so it didn't go well for me lol

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Tracking your ovulation via your natural signs is actually really easy, and avoid intercourse during your fertile window. 
BBT, cervical position, cervical mucous, and the feelings you get when ovulating can all be tracked and you learn to expect exactly where you are in your cycle.
I've been using this method exclusively for BC (no pills and no condoms) for about 8 years. It does work.

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I did!! I got pregnant, but it could have been avoided if we really wanted it to lol. I knew I was ovulating thanks to this and another app I used. I knew I was ovulating and told my husband to pull out, he said he didn't hear me tell him, and a few weeks later I discovered I was pregnant lmao! Now we have a one year old monster. I'm on birth control now, because after pregnancy my cycle was so out of wack that I couldn't figure out when I was ovulating, and we didn't want another baby right away lol. If you do it right it works great and you don't have to be on a ton of hormones.

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I found this app extremely helpful and accurate in avoiding my fertile days. I never used BC because I've always been so against pumping my body with hormones. I could never understand how I should be okay with not having a period for months on end when by nature it should be every month. To each their own. But the thing about natural family planning is, you have to have self control and you always have to know what days you're good and not. If you're going to have sex during your fertile window, you need to use condoms or he needs to pull out. My SO and I were never big fans of condoms so we never really used them; he would simply (try to) pull out during my fertile days. The pull out method is NOT 100% mainly because it requires significant self control.

I got a little too comfortable and stopped tracking my days as well as I should've and next thing I know, my period was late. I'm currently 4 months pregnant. So it works, but you MUST stay on top of your days and take extra precautions during your fertile days.

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I got pregnant using the app as a 'natural birth control.' On BC for years and my cycles were super messed up and 40-60 days apart so I think it had a hard time tracking my fertile days accurately. Happened a year after coming off the pill, and granted we weren't taking any other precautions, thinking if it happens it happens. But just saying, using the app as your only source of BC? I wouldn't rely on it.

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I have been doing that for about a year now almost, I use condoms though because I don't trust it too much. I don't depend on just this app, I buy ovulation tests and track when I ovulate and I don't have sex when I'm fertile, at all. 
The app has been pretty spot on with my ovulation so far. I haven't had a pregnancy scare or even a late period. About 2 months ago I had 2 periods in a month out of nowhere and I don't know why, so I'm guessing I ovulated twice that month, this is why I use condoms because you can ovulate at anytime nomatter how good you track it.

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Me and my boyfriend track my fertile week very closely and he won't even go in bare while I am. Sometimes we do the pull out method other days but majority of the time we always use condoms and we check to make sure there's no tearing or anything

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Personally I wouldn't use this app as a massive indicator. Tracking your CM and temperature can help for learning when your ovulation is. X

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