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@lijuea Your body, your choice. If you want to keep it, you keep it. Start taking folic acid today

@lijuea You're not the first, won't be the last. I also got pregnant from pulling out. So now I have an IUD. Pulling out is not a good birth control method. What do you want to do with the pregnancy?

@lijuea It might be better for your husband to get a vasectomy, it's a much easier procedure and it's more effective. He can even have it done now while you're still pregnant because there's a 3 month period before he's cleared to be infertile.

@iessuman Do you know the difference between clinical trials and other studies? There are no clinical trials on withdrawal. None. Zilch.

@iessuman No, clinical trials are expensive, so you need someone to fund them. No one has funded a clinical trial on withdrawal because no one has a financial interest in doing so. Perfect user stats for other methods are a result of clinical trials. There's a big difference between the...

@iessuman The perfect use statistics for pulling out are not based on data from clinical trials, unlike with other methods. The reason is simple - no one has ever conducted a clinical trial for pulling out. So the number 96% is just an estimation. No one knows for sure how effective it is with...

@mark58 It's not the same process. Clinical trials give a better quality data than estimates, no matter what. And the presence of sperm in precum hasn't been extensively studied.

@mark58 You're just wrong: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638203/#!po=11.7188 Most method failure rates reported in the literature have been calculated incorrectly and are too low (see the discussion of methodological pitfalls below). Correctly computed estimates are available...

@mark58 The problem is that the 96% perfect use effectiveness is just an estimation and no one knows the exact numbers because no one has ever conducted a clinical trial on pulling out. So the typical use failure rate is only reliable statistic for this method. Also, unlike other methods, it's...

@iessuman 27 men. Way too small of a sample.

@lijuea That number is just an estimation though, unlike other birth control statistics that are based on clinical trials. No one has ever conducted a trial on pulling out (because who would pay for it?), so the perfect use number means little.

@gray1404 10 days to 2 weeks after the risky contact is the minimum. If she still doesn't have her period, 3 weeks after sex will always be accurate.

@melodyt Withdrawal is not that great. Some men always have sperm in their precum and some don't, OP can't know in which category he belongs.

@gray1404 You can't know then. It might be a good idea to get Ella (more effective than Plan B) or Plan B. The side effects are minimal and the risk might not be worth it. And BTW, condoms shouldn't break like that. Make sure that you use the right size for you, that you store them correctly...

@gray1404 Where is she in her cycle?