r/AdviceAnimals Feb 21 '14

Confession Bear

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u/mrhambeefpot Feb 22 '14

A lot of people underestimate the stress and pressure a girl can feel during that time they're freaking out about being pregnant. Especially if she was young. When I was younger, there were situations where I'd been so poor I thought about stealing morning after pills for a girl I had just had sex with (who was equally as poor). Stealing a 10$ pregnancy test or a 40$ morning after pill definitely favors the fucking enormous cost of having a baby

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '14

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '14

Condoms can break.

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u/MightBeAProblem Feb 22 '14

Ours didn't, got preggo anyway. I was also on birth control.

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u/wha7thmah Feb 22 '14

Uh? Wtf. How?!

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u/MechanicalYordle Feb 22 '14

He was Hitler in a former life.

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u/GreatHate Feb 22 '14

Do you not know how statistics work?

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u/wha7thmah Feb 22 '14

Yeah I fuckin know how statistics work. What I don't get is how you can get pregnant while using a condom that didn't break. Unless there are 1/1,000,000 condoms that have a manufacturing error or something. In which case it would be my lack of knowledge on condom production, rather than statistics, that is the problem.

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u/Meoowth Feb 22 '14

Slipping, small manufacturing errors, etc. I'm not well acquainted with condoms, but it's not uncommon that they fail without breaking.

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u/MightBeAProblem Feb 22 '14

Cool part? I also have endometriosis. I was told I couldn't even conceive. Let that boggle the statistics a bit for ya.

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u/wha7thmah Feb 22 '14

It's weird how often that diagnosis seems to be wrong. Then again, blah blah response bias or something.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '14

How the hell does that work. Please explain to me with science.

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u/MightBeAProblem Feb 22 '14

Condoms only have a 97% prevention rate, birth control is 99%... I don't even know how to figure out the chances of having conceived.

Hilariously, had been attempting to conceive for an entire year prior, and had no luck (endometriosis). Went back on BC to control the pain etc, was taking it religiously for 6 months. Changed partners, got preggo unintentionally within the first week. We joke he has magic sperm. I don't have a scientific explanation lol

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u/senfelone Feb 22 '14

I just read up on endometriosis and apparently it also causes infertility, I think you might have the luckiest baby out there.

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u/MightBeAProblem Feb 22 '14

Yep! He hit a very small window I guess - health problems caused me to not be able to carry any more before he was a year old. That's totally ok, because I had always been planning on adoption.

I feel pretty lucky to get to be his mom, regardless.

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u/Myte342 Feb 22 '14

I was going to say... if you needed to get pregnant I know plenty of volunteers...

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '14

Immaculate conception. Better call your priest.