skipped_period look ma no clue I don't know if I can change my writing style enough that nobody will recognize who this is. Skipped my period. It happens. the condom was old, didn't know until later. Different circumstances. probably not pregnant. Maybe. 030712 ... Freak been there got pregnant miscarried still hurts to think about it but I still thank God for not giving me a child so soon and giving me a second chance on life. 030712 ... frAnk so many times greta and i have sweated it out. 030712 ... Aimee Could just be stress. Could just be everything changing (especially if there's another female around) Could be medications Could be a baby... mine is a baby... 030713 ... niska i find that usually, once we've bought two $30 tests from the drug store, and i take them in a fit of panic, i get mine the next day... 030714 ... x my period is so inconsistent that i wouldn't even know when to worry 030714 ... carlita don't waste your money buying at-home tests. most walk-in clinics will do a true urine pregnancy test for about $5 (mine does anyway). those are more accurate, too, so there's no wondering if you did it right. you can also go to family planning places and get one, and they charge you depending on your income. 030715 ... jane feel like a defective typewriter 030715 ... sixteen carlita-- thanks for the advice...I'm going to wait maybe one more week before I go and get a test. I keep thinking about it. of course. I might not even be pregnant, but it hurts so much. I am sixteen. I am "sixteen". You know, logic tells me that I can't have this baby. I cannot. The father of this existent or nonexistent being holding residence in my body...is not going to be a father. I used protection, always. The problem? I was throwing the condom wrapper away and happened to notice that the expiration date was a fucking year ago. Great... And then a skipped period. So lets neglect the chance that maybe I'm NOT pregnant for a moment. Lets say I am. I can't. I CAN'T give MY baby up for adoption. I CAN'T. This is MY baby. I can't be a mom, I'm sixteen. I'M SIXTEEN. I wouldnt be able to take care of the baby...I'm not mature enough. I can't bring something into this world, so beautiful, and then ruin it with my naivety. abortion I dont want to have an abortion. i can't. I'm pro choice, but only because I recognize the dire cases that might require an abortion. This isn't dire. This just sucks. I can't have an abortion. I can't be a mom. I can't give my baby up for adoption. 030717 ... megan my heart cries for you sixteen i will pray 030717 ... karl the weed yeah me too althoughi could probably never feel anything like what youre going through. 030717 ... carlita i feel for you, as i've been in the same scared situation many times. even at your age, you seem mature, and i'm sure you'd work it out if you are, indeed, pregnant. i feel the same towards abortion as you... pro_choice, but i'd never be able to live with myself if i had one. good luck to you and my thoughts are with you. 030718 ... whistler adoption, my dad was adopted. without my biological grandmothers decision to have the kid then give him up I wouldn't be here. I had friends in high school who got pregnant at 16, she had the baby and gave it up. she said it was a hard 9 months but she got through it, she said she couldn't imaging having an abortion nor could she concieve of raising the baby. so this worked out for her. 030722 ... nomatter been there. false alarm scariest week of my life 030926 ... celestias shadow i've skipped mine for 5 months at a time. right now it's been almost 3. if i was pregnant, i probably wouldn't even begin to realize it until it was too late to do anything about it. and that worries me. 030929 ... edgar Beelzebub Smythe Vote_marmaduke marmaduke_the_early_years the_death_of_marmaduke Skipped periods indeed 030929 ... misstree means no disrespect for once not meaning to sound like a bitch (just showing incredible skill at it these days), but if pregnancy is a dead-end situation to you (can't do adoption, can't raise a kid, can't do an abortion), then maybe you shouldn't be having sex? part of why sex should wait until maturity is the ability to deal with the consequences... be it pregnancy, disease, emotional turmoil, or just a simple bad reputation... sex is not just a few pleasurable twitches, it's got some serious gravity behind it, no matter how much your hormones will urge you to forget it, just for a little while... 030930 ... misstree and that goes for boys, too. wags her finger in a very old-ladyish way 030930 ... Bizzar I agree 100% with Misstree. Im not saying I dont feel for you who are trapped, and feel like theres no logical choice. Ive been there myself. But it still stands, pregnancy is a HUGE consequence of sex, and if youre old enough to have sex, youre old enough to understand this... and if this doesnt apply to you, maybe you should not be having sex. I had my first scare when I was 16. It was only my second time even having sex. And after that scare passed, I refused to have sex until I was ready to raise a baby... just to be sure. And I also got on birth control. Not to say that I want or am in a place in my life to be really 'ready' for a baby, but if that be the case, I know I can work around it, and that I am mature enough to take on the responsibility. Abortion is not an option for me, ever. Just... there are so many other ways of pleasuring eachother. If you cant have a baby, learn to appreciate oral sex until you know you can if it happens. 030930 ... alex ok... i dont know how long this site has been up but i need some info please/// in a similar situation, i have like irregular periods.. like i had the last one for 2 days and it stopped... then i was supposed to have one on the 21st of the month, then i didnt... it was the 22nd when me and my boyfriend had sex... but he caught him self before we really got into it... do u think i could be pregnant... cause now its the 27th... and i still se no signs of a period.... and we didnt have sex for a good while..... i had periods up to this point... al of a sudden i just skipped one out of the blue... i dunno what to do.... i mean we didnt have sex prior to the last period i had...what the fuck could have made me skip like that? 040127 ... minnesota_chris oh my god I haven't had a period in a REALLY REALLY long time!!! I'm thinking of skipping out of my English class to go listen to gamelan music. 040127 ... alex, a lot of things make people skip periods beyond the obvious reason, stress being the main one. Sometimes, it just happens. If you're worried, get a test, it's worth the piece of mind. 040127 ... alex ok.... thanks 040128 ... Syrope i was so worried...it wasn't even time to worry, but i was worried ever since the instant i realized he was ignoring my pleas to use a condom. i brought it up later and all i got was an annoyed "you're going to have to say no if you want me to stop"...and part of me froze. he honestly didn't hear my screams of that tiny word. didn't hear me begging him to stop, didn't feel my nails frantically digging into his flesh. i intentionally made him bleed and he shrugged it off. so i broke up with him, and he still doesn't know that's why. i don't think it's something he's willing to learn about himself. i understand that, but then it just seemed like something fate would enjoy - having me carry the baby of the monster. but then last night you reached for me... instead of the other way around, the usual "me feeling like i'm annoying you with my cries for attention"... and i knew i was wrong to worry sure enough, getting off last night to the thought of you brought blood to my fingers. i think things will be ok now. 040128 ... no-one I'm irregular.. But i havent hadd one for 3 months. Bad, right? 040128 ... no-one If i ignore it, it will go away. 040128 ... no, it won't 040129 ... Sw Havent had mine for almost 5 months. But I'm not pregnant. Unless that immaculate conception thing is still happening. I'm 18. Wonder what it is, but not enough to go to a doctor. Hate those bastards. So, I'll just wait for it to come back. Saves me money on tampons, anyways. 040426 ... asexual If only. 040427 ... x it would be interesting to find out whose baby it was. who evolution chose. 040427 ... magicforest When I'm happy, I get it later. When I'm sad, I get it sooner. It sounds like a double negative but it works for me. When I'm sad I need a distraction. I need a distraction. 040918 what's it to you? who go blather from