So working with the app has me far more aware of my body – why I feel the way I feel, etc. One thing I find interesting is that each day the app gives you a % chance of pregnancy. For 10 days each month, my % goes up from 2.5% – to 6% all the way to 27.7%. 27.7%?

Wow. That seems like a really low percentage for the “best chance.”

In most things, if you told me on the best day I had a 28% of accomplishing something, I would say “oh yeah? No thanks. Those odds are awful.” But obviously, with all the millions of babies born – this isn’t actually a bad game of odds. It happens. A lot. It also doesn’t happen a lot. I hear about both. I hear about accidental pregnancy, I hear about the devastation of lack of pregnancy.

I’ve always been pro choice. Always. I understand why some people aren’t. But I don’t understand how the people who aren’t don’t spend the majority of their time trying to help with adoption and foster care. Because in my mind pro-life and adoption should be entangled. But now that I’ve gotten older, the question has changed. Before my twenties, the answer would have been an immediate response. Now that I’ve gotten older and news of pregnancy is greeted with excitement instead of sheer panic from your audience and friends, it’s changed. Pregnancy has been something I haven’t had to made hard choices about in the past. Stay on the pill forever, go off when you want a baby. That’s not everyone’s story.

28% at best. That sounds low. For the first time it sounds sad and scary. I have friends that have been through a lot of the issues I may be about to face. I’m lucky to have great people in my life – and going through those hard times can make them even better people.