Ovulation/getting pregnant Question?!


Question: Is it true that there are kits you can buy to test when you are ovulating.. and can you use this in order to help PREVENT pregnancy. Like to test yourself before you have sex, and then only have sex if you are NOT ovulating..?


Answers: Is it true that there are kits you can buy to test when you are ovulating.. and can you use this in order to help PREVENT pregnancy. Like to test yourself before you have sex, and then only have sex if you are NOT ovulating..?

Those tests are quite costly, far more expensive than condoms and too expensive to use for birth control for most of us! If you are against artificial methods of birth control, there are several methods of natural family planning. They are not the most reliable, however. Here's a website that can tell you how:
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/...
Edit: if you are on the pill and taking it correctly, you really don't need to worry!
Edit #2: Approx. $20.00 a kit, depending on the brand? Different brands seem to have a different # of tests in them, so you have to use several tests to determine when you are ovulating. Bottom line, these simply weren't meant for birth control. If you want to determine when you are ovulating, use the techniques in the website above.

There is no guarantee that you won't get pregnant just because you aren't ovulating when you have sex. Sperm can live several days inside a woman.

If you don't want to get pregnant, spend that money on some form of birth control instead of those tests. They were designed to aid in getting pregnant, not the other way around.

Yes, but that's expensive. If your Catholic, then you can just go to your priest and he can give you a chart that tells you when to avoid intercourse....

But, best bet, is to map your period. I'm allergic to birth control, and allergic to condoms. So, my husband and I just don't have sex for a week during my cycle. Say you start your period on the first of the month, then end on the fifth. Then start again on the twenty-eighth. The days you want to avoid sex are between the eleventh and eighteenth.

no, not a reliable form of birth control...it has to do with how long sperm survive inside you and how long the egg survives after it is released during ovulation...you could test one day, have sex that day, but ovulate the next day, and end up pregnant...if you have sex before you ovulate, the sperm may still be alive when you do....if you have sex after you ovulate, your egg could still be able to be fertilized...

edit....your birth control pills prevent pregnancy by preventing ovulation...no need to test for ovulation since the pill's hormones prevent it in your case...





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