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pregnancy/birth control
I've been on birth control for a few months and my boyfriend and I have been using condoms the past year. But we want to just use the pulling out method why'll im stilll taking birth control. I take it everyday and the same exact time, so is it safe or should we stick to condoms AND bc?
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Ideally birth control is 99.9 percent pregnant when taken everyday at the same time. Birth control works by making your body not ovulate, so if there is no egg to begin with, the sperm has nothing to fertilize.
As far as pulling out goes, it really won't matter if he pulls out or ejaculates inside of you, you have thie same risk of pregnancy. There are plenty of people who use birth control as their only method of birth control and most of them don't get pregnant if used correctly. However there is always the risk of getting pregnant any time you have sex no matter how much protection you are using.
I would recommend reading the facts on birth control and sex online, and decide for yourself if you are comfortable using birth control as your only method of protection.
Good luck
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Nothing is 100% effective.
Nothing.
So, even if you take the birth control pills every day you are still at risk at getting pregnant. Your back-up method right now is condoms. Birth control pills coupled with condoms is a pretty good plan, actually.
The pull-out method is very much not effective. Pre-ejaculate seeps from the penis without anyone every knowing or feeling it. Pre-ejaculate can very well contain sperm.
It takes 1 single sperm to find it's way up into you and get you pregnant. That's it. Your boyfriend doesn't have to ejaculate fully into you. He doesn't have to deposit millions of little sperm. It only takes 1 lucky one to get the job done.
If you look into effectiveness in real-life studies compared to clinical/laboratory studies then hormonal birth control pills aren't really 99% effective. It's more like 93% or so, which still isn't bad if a person thinks about it. The problem is that it is not 100% effective at preventing unwanted pregnancies. Condom effectiveness is something around 88% effective at preventing unwanted pregnancies.
So, while you may end up with an early miscarriage and never know you ended up pregnant, there is still a much greater risk at nixing the condoms and going bareback.
The honest answer comes when you use your head.
Are you ready for a baby?
Probably not or you wouldn't be trying to prevent pregnancy. So, why risk it further?
You already risk it when you do have sex. So, why would you want to take a greater risk?
Sex isn't going to be magically better because you stopped buying and using condoms. It isn't going to be make things suddenly wonderful. It isn't going to happen. Whatever you think it's going to do is probably very wrong.
Use your head.
Keep using the condoms and the hormonal birth control pills if you don't want a baby. There is no reason in the world why you should up the risk factors here. There's no reason why you should have to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. There is no reason why you should worry when your period is just a day late. There is no reason why you should be afraid that just 1 sperm made it's way to your egg.
Everyone should always use a back-up method when they don't want to get pregnant. The pull-out method is no a good back-up plan.
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