Hi girls,

I hope I'm posting this in the proper place. If not, please feel free to move it mods.

I got my Mirena yesterday. It was the most painful experience of my life, but that's a whole other thread, and the question I have isn't specific to this brand.

For a little bit of background: my boyfriend and I are in a long-distance relationship. I got the IUD for two reasons: to control the flow of my period and for easy birth control because I am the most forgetful person on the planet. I would forget my left arm if it wasn't attached to me. I've tried all other forms of BC, so this was my last resort.

Anyways, we both really can't wait to get married and have kids. Family is incredibly important to us, and he'll be moving here very soon. I know I can easily take out the Mirena when we're ready, but I didn't expect to feel so sad that there will be no happy "oops" until it's time to try.

Have any of you other girls experienced that? I've had a couple of pregnancy scares, and I was always a tiny bit dissapointed when the test came back negative. But I would be absolutely elated if we were to get pregnant. The rational side of me knows very well that getting pregnant while he's in a different country and I JUST opened a salon is a bad, bad idea. But my ultimate dream in life is being a mommy and a wife. I can't be the only one who's felt like this?