An IUD, or intra-uterine device, is a little T-shaped object that goes in your hoo-hoo in order to make things more complicated when you get pregnant anyway. It's a must-have for women who want to have a baby but also enjoy uterine irritation and extra trips to the hospital.RATING: Cute but useless%
(Image from http://www.mydochub.com.)
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I hope that's not a dog uterus.
I thought we weren't talking about that anymore.
@Glenn,
Same thought ran through my mind.
I did find an article on IUD's in dogs. Apparently it's not a popular means of canine birth control.
What this picture really looks like is a fishing hook stuck inside a Grade-B ribeye steak. De-boned, of course.
Actually the failure rate on these is less than a tenth of a percent, so it sounds like someone has sperm made of steel. (I've been happily not getting pregnant with my IUD for over a year now, and would give it a very high rating.)
Ooh, let's rate I.J.'s sperm!
I think Robyn should really do that. But I'm not sure I trust those stats. I know like 4 friends of friends who've got pregnant using IUD's. Maybe they were improperly installed, mind you, but my wife's wasn't.
Funny story: I'm in grade 6 science class with Glenn, who claims that condoms have a hole in the end, and that you can still have a baby while using a condom, you just won't get a disease.
Ironically, it was me who had all the babies.
Maybe Canadian IUD's are remnants from the Eastern Bloc
Whatever they are, they'd have to be better than the North Korean birth control pills that were responsible for the birth of my son.
Yeah, the 12 year old version of me knew a lot about sex, being the player that I was.
I stopped specifically knocking Korean birth control almost 2 weeks ago when I started knocking birth control in general.
Laurie, I was happily not getting pregnant for over 2 years and am now happily in the 5% of women who seem to get knocked up with and IUD (which I think is a high number!)
an IUD...Jeebus!
Ah, IJ/IR, congrats! It's a little terrifying to me that an IUD failed, as I always thought that was the birth control I could one day "graduate" to when I had real health insurance. But basically, I've never trusted any form of birth control by itself. By the time I started having any sex I knew so many friends who'd gotten uh-oh pregnant that I made it a project never to get knocked up myself. I've never even taken a pregnancy test. But I also know a ton of people who've been careless and lucky, so who the hell knows.
What is that pink spot on the uterus? Does my uterus have those? Weird.
Okay, so I had to look up the failure rates for IUDs (to renew my confidence). For Paraguard (which is what I have) it's 0.8% (of women using them) the first year of use and 0.6% in subsequent years of use. For the hormone one it's 2% and 1.5% respectively. Although I guess these figures don't apply if your husband has sperm of steel like John appears to have. Here's hoping my new boyfriend isn't so potent.
I still say it looks like a fishing hook.
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