Day 28: What if you were pregnant or got someone pregnant, what would you do?
Well first of all... This is pretty much a moot point, because the likelyhood of me getting pregnant is slim to none. No, I don't mean to say that I'm not sexually active, because I am (and yes for those of you gossip-mongers I WOULD know who the father is because I am only being sexually active with one person)
But I made the wise choice after having Timmy to get the Mirena IUD. I don't trust condoms... with "perfect" use they are 98% effective... but theres so much that can go wrong to screw that up (operator error, breakage, slippage, expired, damaged, holes, etc) that I don't trust a thin barrier of latex to keep me protected from unwanted pregnancy.
And while birthcontrol pills are a lot more effective, that again depends on whether or not you remember to take them... and I'm horrible with remembering to take pills, so for me the most logical option was an IUD, and in this case, the most effective one was the hormonal one (same hormones in BC pills) Mirena.
It has a LESS than 1% failure rate. I'm pretty confident with that knowledge alone, but then even in the unlikely case that I would happen to fall into that less than 1%, the removal of the IUD typically causes a miscarriage, so like I said, NOT WORRIED!
But let's just play devils advocate here for a moment and say that somehow I not only fell into that less than 1% but somehow the removal of the IUD didn't cause a miscarriage. Well, what would I do?
Well first of all I would tell the father because he is entitled to know and what happens next is largely up to him. Knowing him, he would probably vote for an abortion because he is not ready for kids now, if ever.
But since I don't believe in abortion, unless he was deadset on wanting to be a part of the childs life, I would have an open adoption. Yeah, it would be hard, knowing how I feel about kids, and it would be hard to give up MY kid, but I'm also a realist that knows that I should do whats BEST for the child. I know I'm not in a situation right now where emotionally or finacially I could raise another child.
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