Fuck you sperm! Fuck you and your Aquaman-like swimming ability!
My wife and I just found out that we are “expecting”…again! This will be our third child. We didn’t want any more children.
The odds of this happening are so fucking small, I can’t believe it happened. How did it happen? Condom, err, malfunction on Day 9 of my wife’s cycle. Preven (Morning after pill) was taking the next day as an extra precaution.
Still, pregnancy = positive!
WTF!? Day 9 (not the opitmum day for getting pregnant), condom, morning after pill, and we are still “expecting”!!?? That’s just not right!
Our previous two kids were conceived with very little effort. 1st try…BAM! Pregnant. Second kid, two tries…BAM! Pregnant.
Fuck you sperm!!
I know, I know…We should have had the operation. I was scheduled to see my doctor about the 'ol “snip-snip” in two weeks!
We still havn’t gotten over the shock. We are going to be outnumbered!!
That sounds exactly like me, although it was two attempts for the first, one attempt for the second. (I even know the dates of conception.) However, two wild kids led to total abstinance for us, so you should be proud of your resilience.
Easy Answer: You just need to abandon the man-to-man defense and switch to a zone defense.
Soooo, you’re saying that he has to be happy about a pregnancy he did all he could to prevent because other people are trying to have babies and can’t? What in the hell does one have to do with the other?
We love our kids more than life itself. We will love this new child the same. It’s just that, well, under the circumstances, we didn’t expect it to happen! :eek:
We didn’ plan for it at all, and this changes everything! The differance between two kids and three kids is huge! HUGE! Room issues (someones going to have to double-up now), monetary concerns, logistics to be worked out. My wife was getting ready to go back to work soon. Well not any more!
We just can’t believe it happened. Condom…Day 9 in the cycle…Morning after pill…And we still conceive? What are the odds?
And you know what else. I usually wear two condoms. I didn’t this time, and I don’t know why. Fuck!
As I said, we will love this child just as much as our other two kids. I just can’t believe it happened!!
Given that it’s mostly likely to be five years at a minimum before the prospective kid can read, and more before he or she could be reasonably expected to comprehend the OP, and the kid would have to identify the poster as his or her parent to make the connection that the thread is about him or her, it’s unreasonably alarmist to suggest that this thread is a bad idea because the kid might some day find out about it. It’s likely to be binary dust before the kid is ever old enough to know about it.
On the whole, writing it down in a diary and keeping that is a higher risk, on account of sooner or later kids get into everything!
Congratulations on the impending third time fatherhood, Kings_Gambit1, and commiserations on the surprise conception. Apparently I was conceived in spite of 3 types of contraception, (knowing which has not traumatised me, just by the way ) so I’m sure my parents would empathize with the shock of it all.
As my dear mum said to me, when I went crying to her after finding out I was pregnant with my fourth kid, “It’s the one that you least expect or want who turns out to be the biggest blessing”.
I don’t know if he quite qualifies as a ‘blessing’ just yet (he’s 15…nobody is a blessing at 15 ) but I can’t imagine our family with him not in it.
Yep, same thing happened to us. Condom malfunction. We already had two and had considered having a third, but I suspect that if that didn’t happen, we wouldn’t have ended up trying.
In the end, I’m glad it happened. Worse things could have happened. I do believe, now, that the failure rate for condoms is much higher than what we’ve been told.
LOL! That’s hilarious! 3-2 zone, or a box-and-one?
I’m not necessarily doubting you, but do you happen to have a cite?
Well, I’ve (we) never had any problems with condoms before. Other birth control options did not appeal to us, for a variety of reasons. I was going to get the “snip-snip”. I just didn’t do it soon enough, apparently.
I know that I was an unplanned pregnancy. I know that my parents weren’t really wanting a child at the time - hell they weren’t even married yet. But that knowledge didn’t scar me. Despite being unplanned, my parents didn’t make me feel unwanted as a child, so I think the banned poster’s, and any other unstated fears, on that concern are unfounded.
Well apparently the “other birth control options” were less appealing than the thought of another child. Birth control pills? The birth control patch? Norplant? Depo-Provera? An IUD? A diaphragm? A tubal ligation? A vasectomy? If you were really serious about not wanting another kid, any or all of the above would have been advisable. But of course hindsight is 20-20. A condom alone certainly isn’t going to be enough if you are really serious about not wanting more kids.
Congrats and best wishes. I kind of know how you feel.
Brainiac4 and I tried for three years to get pregnant. Deciding it was unlikely (though not impossible) we set out to adopt. No more than our bundle of joy arrived home from Korea, than his sister decided to annouce her arrival. They are thirteen months apart, and arrived six months apart.
Love them both, but that pregnancy was a shocker! I would have never chosen to have two kids only a year apart. I’d never have chosen to have my first pregnancy while being a first time mom to a baby. Plans needed to be changed - including scrapping the idea of another adoption. You make plans and picture your family one way - and then life throws you a curve ball. At no time between our marriage and discovering our pregnancy did I ever picture our family as it exists, and it can take a little while to adjust your expectations to the reality.
) so I’m sure my parents would empathize with the shock of it all.