#contreception

i bled for about 4 days and by the end of the 4th day it stopped , i decided to cautiously go to bed with just a liner and hoped for the best

woke up with no bleeding! and none has happened since i woke up too

i gotta say, while the bleeding made me feel tired af , it was still nice to not be super crampy before it had started like i would always get on the pills , maybe having an irregular period might work to my advantage ? because i swear because the pills regulated me to the T , there mustve been something with that which made me have PMS symptoms like crazy

it technically hasnt been 1 month on nexplanon , it would be 5 more days till it is, but it feels safe to say now that this bleeding stopped pretty quickly in terms of breakthrough bleeding ( was worried it would go on for over a week like it was on my first month of pills) , it went well

side effects ive noticed that might potentially be nexplanon:

-headaches a little more easily- nothing painful or interrupting

- maybe a bit more moody- but im a college student getting closer to the end of my first semester so 👀📝 i have alot of shit to get done so im stressing a bit

- the bleeding was an obvious one- in total for this month i bled 7 days, the 3 days of bleeding about one week after my insert ( expected it ) and the 4 days of bleeding that happened 11 days after the first bleeding ended ( alright,,, didnt expect that) .

so overall? not that bad. off birth control i used to bleed 6-7 days a month , and to not bleed that much in a row this time around gave me relief at least.

i did not get any PMS like symptoms when i bled again, that was amazing , it felt like such a relief . i felt good, and i think so far this is working better for me than isibloom . i dont feel my hormones rising and falling like it did before , it feels steady .

not sure what the future will be like in terms of bleeding, but whatever happens , im gonna make it work out

heres to one month !

Wild Carrot/ Queen Annes Lace seeds can be used as a method of contreception. I stopped taking the combined pill this year but grow really nervous the days leading up to moon time, even though I’m practicing fertility awareness. I can’t quite believe I went so long having no idea what my body was doing. Blindly agreeing to take the first contrecptive the doctor prescribes goes against our natural rhythms and flows and disconnects women emotionally and spiritually from their bodies. Women desperately need alternatives in terms of contreception, we need something that doesn’t completely fuck with our hormones or require hospital visits. Maybe this is a true alternative. I’m growing Queen Annes Lace this year so am going to give this ago. 

I’ve been thinking for a while now what women would have used to stop pregnancy thousands of years ago, when women knew about plants. What the women here, in this place would have used. Our ancestors were aware of things in ways we can’t fathom (intuiton, pyschdelic teachings perhaps) and I reckon women have practiced fertility awarness for thousands of years, without knowing about ovulation. I read about how the romans lead an abortifacient plant that supposedly ‘powered their economy’ into extinction. There must be herbs and potions that were discovered and designed to do such things, to perhaps stop implantation once conception has occured, as Wild Carrot is thought to do,or plants to induce miscarriage that were used. Theres so much we don’t know, so much about plants we don’t know because we live seperately from them. As Derrick Jesnen says, ‘Dismantle globally, Renew Locally’ and this is exactly the kind of shit that needs addressing if we want to survive on this earth post society, post economy (or if we truly don’t want to be part of the problem). We need the knowledge back and we need to know where to find medicines and how to use them. Women need the power and the choice.

Hmmm, surely there must be other ways to treat those ailments? Ways that are covered by the plan.

This isn't something that can just be replaced by an aspirin. These pills where specifically engineered to cure or give relief to these "ailments." They were made especially for women's bodies, to combat things that women's bodies go through. 

I may not know all the details here, but how are they oppressing by just opting not to pay for peoples’ contraceptives?

Contraceptives can be used for more than just preventing pregnancy.

Most women use birth control pills to help with severe pain caused by their periods, balance out their hormones relieving symptoms of PMS, and stop the growth of tissue in foreign places in the body which can lead to Endometriosis.

If a woman needs the pill for her health and works for a company that refuses to see these pills as an ACTUAL MEDICAL NECESSITY

she's up a creek