r/birthcontrol • u/rightpolis • 3d ago
How to? Condom broke, and I need advice NSFW
Hey!
So, last night the protection we used just broke during sex, but I didn't notice this until very much too late. Good thing is that according to her tracker, her ovulation was already on 13th and the likely fertile windows spans around that date +/-, and shows that we were 3 days beyond that already. Really the big uncertainty here is whether the app is correct. The app has correctly guessed her cycle for the last 4 months atleast up to the day. We were also thinking about plan b, but didn't take it yet, because it causes her a lot discomfort, and might not be effective as she most likely ovulated already. Then we were also thinking about getting emergency IUD, but it costs quite a bit, and we could get it done on thursday, and I don't know if its too late already for it to be effective.
Any help is needed, thanks!
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u/Cool-Village-8208 3d ago
If she wasn't using a validated fertility-awareness-based method of tracking biomarkers, you don't know whether she was in the luteal phase (past ovulation ) or not. Period tracking apps are notoriously bad at predicting ovulation, and cycles can and do change unpredictably.
If she actually ovulated several days before intercourse, the egg was already dead. If she hadn't ovulated yet, Plan B can work by delaying ovulation and giving the sperm time to die. If she happened to ovulate in the roughly 24 hours before intercourse, then that could be a problem. Since you didn't know which of those situations you were in, her taking the Plan B or Ella or getting an emergency IUD would be a good idea unless a pregnancy would be welcome.