I was 23 but as I categorically never wanted children it was a bit of a nightmare. I learnt a hard lesson from that one.
He also never wanted children thankfully, but he still thinks a vasectomy would somehow lower his ‘manhood’ 
. To be fair, it was my own fault. I used to pee on cheapie ovulation sticks to avoid sex on ovulation. Natural Cycles gives you loads of Red days at the beginning when it is learning your cycle. I thought I knew better as I was using ovulation tests too.
I agree with you. I would use Natural Cycles if you are about the age/a bit younger than when you plan to have a family. So if you did fall pregnant, it wouldn’t be a nightmare. That’s what happened to us. We were using NC when we had our ‘happy surprise’ of baby no. 2. I would NEVER use it now, as I 100% DO NOT want any more children. It’s just not 100% safe enough because the chance of user error is so much higher than other contraception methods. We are now trying to get me a coil, and husband a vasectomy in the next few years.
That’s the one. I’ve been using natural cycles for 18 months, successfully with a previous partner (no pregnancy) always used condoms on red days but not on green days.. we broke up but I’ve still been using it and measuring temps while single as if not I’d go back to having to start again and have tons of red days and no data. Now with a new partner and he’s aware I use it.. I’ll tell him when he needs to bag it up so to speak
and when he’s good to go. Hopefully it carries on being successful as absolutely do not want babies but I’m unable to use hormonal contraception. I need to go to the docs to be fair to get on the wait list for sterilisation but due to covid that’s going to take a mega long time. I personally think it’s a brilliant app if you have a regular cycle but you do need to be measuring correctly and be on the ball with it 
I realised today when researching how little I know about my cycle. Definitely need some more education! Yes I’ve also seen this book mentioned a lot when looking at information about Natural Cycles, I think I’m going to look into it.
Mine is terrible at this. I feel mean saying this but it’s so frustrating.
Technically no, it should be safe enough not too, I’ve gone 3 months now of unprotected sex on green non fertile days and use condoms or withdrawal (not ideal) on red fertile days, the more data you put in the more green days you get as the months pass by. My cycle is pretty regular and have now got the knack of temp checking so I’m trusting it so far, was nervous to start with but I’m trusting myself that plenty of people use it with no accidents.
Oh that is fantastic! Much better than I thought, thank you.. I was thinking I’d never be able to have a lie in againAs soon as you wake up ideally but you can take it then go back for a snooze as it stores the last temp you tookI’ll add some screen shots from my app that confirm
Lol I could have written this myself, I was also just convinced I wasn’t regularly ovulating as I had irregular cycles and a few anovulatory ones too! I am pretty sure I got pregnant from having sex 5 days before ovulation which I know is not impossible but v unlikely. I am now 7 weeks pregnant!I used Natural Cycles and got unintentionally pregnant within months
Anyway, my basal temperature rose and rose, and yep, I was pregnant. We’re now the parents of a beautiful little baby.
