Pregnancy and birth control questions

[rachelmz]

Hi-
This is a little complicated but I have a lot of questions, and I really appreciate any help I can get.
I wanted to get pregnant, but I'm on Seasonale birth control. My period is the worst experience, and I dread getting it. (It's so heavy I soak a pad and a tampon together every hour, and I get the worst migranes and backache.) So I skip it usually. Anyhow, starting on May 7 I started to take my pill irregularly, and continued to have unprotected sex. (I've been having sex almost every day, in attempt to get pregnant.)I was one week and two days away from my scheduled placebo pills when I would get my period. But my boyfriend said that what if bith control could hurt the baby if I would get pregnant. So last night and the night before, I didn't take my pill at all, because one, I had a higher chance of maybe getting pregnant, and two, if I had managed to by taking my pill irregularly, it might hurt my baby. But then I started reading up more and more on it, and I'm afraid it could actually kill the baby, especially if it is in very early implantation stages. I don't know what to do, because if I skip my pill again and I'm not pregnant, I will start to get my period, which I really don't want. So, what I should do is one of my questions. And, how far along do you have to be before the risk of killing the baby is gone?

Also, how does this birth control work? Are all the active pills the same? When you miss one, do you ovulate automatically? And if you do, then why do you bleed when you stop taking them? I thought that ovulation occurs between cycles, not soon before bleeding.

Finally, what are the chances that I am pregnant?

Thank you, and I hope someone an help me... quickly.

[julz034]

Uhm well, there's only one simple answer to this. That is: you're going to have to stop taking the pill if you want to get pregnant. I think the best thing for you to do is to set up an appointment with your OB/GYN. Sounds like you need some educating on how trying to conceive works. In no way am I putting you down, but I think that you're going to stress yourself out over this. You may have to have periods and feel awful while you're trying to conceive but look at the outcome ya know? Many women go through  A LOT to conceive a child, but it's so worth it. Like I said, set up an appointment with your OB before you start trying. That way they can help you out with pain during your periods, the excessive bleeding, etc. You have about a 1% chance of getting pregnant on the pill, probably even less than that. And to answer your last question: The chances that you're pregnant now there's absolutely no way of knowing, just for the fact you're on the pill.

[Raerae336]

Well I have been told differently by my doctor.. when i had an inconclusive pregnancy test my doctor said to continue taking my birth control because if i was pregnant already it wouldn't harm the baby but if i wasn't pregnant it would prevent an unwanted pregnancy. However, if you are actively trying to conceive, taking birth control is going to make it that much harder to be successful with conceiving.

[Cycl3Chick]

Well, what I know is that on the b/c package insert, it has a warning that it can cause you to lose the baby, and if you are not regular in taking the pills, there is a chance that you could become pregnant.  

Your cycle starts with menstruation, then typically around day 15 is ovulation.

If you are trying to become pregnant, then probably you want to stop taking b/c.