I see my doctor in about 2-3 weeks for my postpartum check up. I’ve never been on BC, both of my children were planned. My issue is I ALWAYS feel pressured by every doctor I go to to be on BC. To the point it feels like every doctor is trying to fill a quota or I feel like I’m being extremely judged and talked down too.

I’ve always done natural family planning with the calendar method, condoms, and pulling out all together. However since I know it’s going to come up I figure I do some more research and see if there are any other non normal options that don’t have to be planted inside of me. The arm one has made all the women in my family go batshit crazy while they had it, and the iud freaks me out for some reason. Is there any BC that anyone recommends that sounds like it might work for me?

Also to add I have very “irregular” cycles, i normally go 80+/- days without a period. When I do get my period it last 3-4 days at most and is more or less just spotting. I don’t get mood swings, cramping, headaches, bloating, etc either. So the selling point of shorter/fewer periods isn’t really a big thing for me cause I have that naturally.