I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that 96% of pregnancies are
unplanned. Okay, so I totally just made that up but thus far, I have
only known two people who planned on getting pregnant. The rest of us were just a bunch of crazy whores who just slipped up a bit with our contraception.
Nothing
says "take birth control" like accidentally getting pregnant. The day I
left Cedars Sinai I had two things with me, my new baby boy and a
year's prescription for whatever that birth control pill is that you
can take while breastfeeding. There was no way in hell I was going to
get pregnant again. At least not on accident.
Two years
later and I haven't missed a pill once. I'm a dynamo when it comes to
birth control. I'm waaay on top of my shit and frankly, a little
confused as to what was so damn difficult for me before. Swallowing a
pill every night before bed is hardly rocket science. I managed to
swallow all sorts of *other* pills no problem.
But
I digress... the thing about unplanned pregnancies is that you never
have to plan them, because seriously, when is a person ever ready to
have a baby? I'm certainly not even close to being ready to parent and
I have a two-year-old!
For me, an unplanned pregnancy was
the only way I would ever become a mother. Just like getting married on
a whim in Vegas was the only way I would have ever walked down the
aisle. So in a way I am grateful for being irresponsible and insane.
Because nothing good has ever come out of anything planned. Not for me,
at least. Screw, It's a Small World. I want Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
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