Has anyone got pregnant using Natural Cycles as a method of contraception? If so, could you please share how it happened?

I’m thinking about using Natural Cycles but I’ve heard a lot of people saying they’ve heard of others getting pregnant while using it, so it’s made me wary. The website says it’s 98% effective with perfect use. I’ll be using an Apple Watch to take my temp every morning so won’t be relying on myself to remember and will be using a condom during red days. Could anyone please share your experience, or if you’ve been caught out using it, please share some info so I can weigh up risks? I’ve created a poll incase anyone doesn’t want to comment.

TIA 😊

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I know 2 people who have got pregnant using this!

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I used it for a few years without getting pregnant and then changed to trying to conceive mode, I'm now back on contraception mode. I know you're looking more for stories of people it went wrong for, but feel free to message if you want more info as you do have to be careful with it (i.e making sure to exclude your temp when sick, hungover or have slept differently to normal) but I love that I now understand ny body/cycles and not on hormones (was on Progesterone only pill for 12 years prior).

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I got pregnant using it, using Apple Watch. My ovulation dates must of been off by 1 day, bec I was intimate the day before my 5 day block off and well… I have a 10 month old.

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I have never used this but I used the OvuSense Core (w/ app and internal vaginal sensor) to get pregnant, and now use it along side the withdrawal method to avoid pregnancy. As a nurse, I am certain internal temps taken overnight are far more accurate than one single basal body temp taken in the morning, so for that reason I prefer OvuSense.

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I have a friend who used it successfully with her Oura ring both as a method of contraception and to get pregnant. I personally used it to get pregnant and found it to be super accurate as we got pregnant the first try. I also used mine with the Oura ring though so I’m not sure what the accuracy is with Apple Watch vs oura ring!

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I track. I used it to get pregnant, and to stay not pregnant. I’ve been tracking and and no birth control the last 6yrs and have sex 2-3* a week and I haven’t gotten pregnant. But he never cums inside and if it’s on a fertile day or he does wanna cum inside he uses a condom. But my insides haven’t seen semen the last 6yrs, the one time he did purposely shoot (6yrs ago) I fell pregnant.

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