According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, 53% of unplanned pregnancies occur while using contraception.
I got an ultrasound yesterday, after losing the baby due to stress/hormones/Matt(? - it was 2 days after he left, and after the ultrasound showed a healthy baby) and it showed there is still "debris" in my uterus. After the nurse went outside, I could hear her and the nurse practitioner giggling when discussing that this is the second time in 6 months that I'd been pregnant.
The nurse practitioner came back into the room and asked "Do you just not use birth control?" Well, ma'am, I didn't know antibiotics made the pill ineffective, and I hadn't gone back on the pill when I got pregnant in February, and condoms just don't work like they make you think they will in 8th grade health class. And apparently hormones do crazy things. Like let you get pregnant even when you're on the pill (ex: my riding instructor). Or take away a healthy pregnancy when the father is not a man, but a child, and leaves you, and tells you he hopes that you miscarry.
So now, 17 days after the miscarriage, I'm taking the medication that makes your uterus cramp to "expel" the remaining "debris". I have another ultrasound schedule for Friday.
This is AWESOME.
(And all Matt is worrying about these days is golf.)
