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KJ, Jenny, Jo, Karen, Rob O, Lisa, Jackie, Marsie, Marie, Danny, Raj, and Sarah mention getting pregnant
Have you ever had a problem using contraception?
“Now we’ve ended up in the situation where maybe looking back on it I wouldn’t have wanted to be in”
What do you worry about most when it comes to sex?
“That was probably my main concern before. Probably my only concern before. But now it’s actually happened…”
“I subsequently went on to the pill as you tend to do when you’re in a long term relationship, but obviously I hadn’t been at that time and too excited, or drunk, or silly to use a condom…”
How did you feel when you found out you were pregnant?
“I knew I had done something wrong, or I felt I had done something wrong. ”
“I came off the Pill and then my periods were really erratic and after about a year we both began to get a little anxious…”
How did you feel when you found out you were pregnant?
“I don’t know any woman that actually only buys 1 pregnancy test; you always buy at least 2, because you always think that the first one’s wrong”
How did you feel having an abortion?
“We’d split up before then and that was the only time when the condom had split. So I wasn’t too sure whether it was mine...”
What impact did abortion have on you longer term?
“It has changed my view on it. Before I would have tried to force the girl as much as possible to have had an abortion.”
In your experience, do drink and drugs mix well with sex?
“It lowers your performance and also I feel that it’s really dangerous.”
What do you worry about most when it comes to sex?
“Simply because it kind of scares me a bit because I’ve gone through it before…”
“That was like the biggest shock of the planet. I just … ooh I couldn’t believe when the doctor's receptionist told me”
How did you feel when you found out you were pregnant?
“It was just wrong timing. Completely wrong timing.”
How did you feel when you found out you were pregnant?
“I’d no idea, absolutely no idea, of just what a difference that would make to my life.”
What impact did abortion have on you longer term?
“I think at the time I was quite upset because you know you do sort of wonder about what what the child would have looked like.”
How did you feel when you found out you were pregnant?
“I was absolutely terrified, in fact I managed to hide it for about four months.”
What do you worry about most when it comes to sex?
“There has been times where I haven’t and I’ve been stupid, and I think we’ve all been there as well.”
“At the same time we also had the childbirth video, which has left me as a vegetarian for the rest of my life …”
Have you ever been worried that you might be pregnant when you didn't want to be?
“I was constantly worried every single month that I'd get pregnant…”