I have a Mirena and hated it for 6 weeks (back pain), loved it for 3+ years (no periods!) and now am kind of pissed at it, as my periods are back. Bleagh.

I’m probably going to try to have a baby of my own, but I’ve decided to bag that pill. After we have the baby, we’ll go the vasectomy route. In the meantime, I bought “Taking control of your fertility” and I’m charting my ovulation and learning the Fertility Awareness Method (different from the Rhythm method). With the exception of a handful or so of days a month, we can be carefree! The rest of the time, you use backup. Simple and hormone/coil/surgery free! :)

Regardless, Vasectomy seems WAY less horrendous and invasive and unnatural than COILS. nix the coils :)

or, do whatever you feel is best for you, ignoring what us busybodies have to say about it.

trim the branches and risk cutting your phone line?

or let nature take its course?

these are the questions that make life worth living!

Also, I bet if you’d had the Internet 20 years ago you would’ve skipped majors 1, 2, 3 and 4 because on-line research would have told you to go straight to #5. Right? right. That’s what I tell myself, anyway.

Give it some thought.

But, until you’re sure you’re done, don’t do anything easily reversed.

And, as a knitting auntie, anytime anyone in my family even hints that they might be done, I start begging for more babies, babies, babies! Because the childless auntie wants to squish and spoil and knit tiny cute things.

Or you can just get an IUD. I love mine (the copper one–I’m freaked out about the idea of stopping periods). It took a few months for us to really get to know each other, but we have a pretty lovely relationship now.