I’m not sure how this happened. I mean, I know how, I’m just not sure how it could have happened. We’ve been careful. Not counting-days-doing-that-silly-method careful, but honest-to-god-using-birth-control-pills careful. And there, it happened. I’ve become one of those girls I’d roll my eyes at. The ones who say, “But I was on the pill.” And I’d think, “Sure, whatever.” And now that’s me. I’ve become that 0.01 percent, that trace of the hormone-altered population that thought she followed the instructions, as she had for the past 20 years (save for that time when I was actually trying to become pregnant). …read more