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Anniegirl
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I am currently pregnant with my first child. I never used NFP before becoming pregnant, and now I need to start it when my daughter is born. I have had a very difficult pregnancy - first hyperemesis gravidum and now pre-eclampsia, and I don’t think I can physically handle another pregnancy, especially when I will already be taking care of a baby. I want to use NFP, but I don’t trust myself to use it correctly, especially when I will be teaching it to myself during the difficult-to-chart post-partum time. I don’t want to get pregnant so much that I am starting to consider some type of artificial birth control, though nothing with hormones because they make me sick. I just really, really can’t imagine myself going through another six months of constant nausea and vomiting and hospital admissions, and then constant blood pressure checks and anxiety. I don’t think my husband could handle it either. Plus, we live in a one-bedroom apartment and it isn’t likely that we’ll move, and my husband travels for weeks or months at a time for work, so I will be alone a lot. I was so sick this pregnancy that I could hardly walk for weeks at a time, and I can’t imagine going through that alone while taking care of a baby. I always wanted to do NFP, but I just can’t get pregnant until our situation changes a lot. My husband is open to ABC or NFP, whichever I want to do. I know he doesn’t want any more kids right now as well. It would also be financially difficult for us because I lost my job, and there is no way I could work while I pregnant if my next pregnancy is like this one anyway. What should I do?
)… and while it is tedious and you do have to be diligent in how you chart, it can be effective!!