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Old 27-February-2007, 12:06 AM
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Originally Posted by AquarianEssence View Post
I guess I don't communicate as clearly as I thought, I'm sorry. I couldn't conceive for about a year after stopping birth control, even though I wanted to conceive because My cycles were off. They slowly came back into my normal and I conceived when my ovulation aligned with the 3rd quarter. That is my natural rhthym. Every person has their own unique cycle. Otherwise all babies would be born at the same time.
Well, no. There are a lot of other factors to gestation besides date of conception. Health of the mother, health of the baby, stress levels of the mother, genetic history, etc. (Drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, are likely to cause premature babies, for example.) Even if the cycle of every single woman on Earth were synchronized, doctors and midwives would still be awakened in the middle of the night all month long.

And, yes, it can take time after going off birth control to get pregnant. Any clinician at Planned Parenthood could tell you that.
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