My name is Melanie Stern, and I am a copywriter at a startup company and doing my Master’s in English Literature.

I started this blog in 2019 when I was 27 and had recently had a traumatic experience with getting pregnant, although we used a condom (and no, it didn’t rip). The shock, loneliness, and helplessness I felt drove me to explore and talk about pregnancy prevention, and this blog was a place I could share my feelings. Over time I found methods that worked for me, and my anxiety around sex subsided.
Life also through new challenges my way, like my beloved mother’s cancer which started to progress rapidly until she died in May 2022 at the age of 56, and my decision to have a prophylactic double mastectomy just a month before I lost my mother.
 

I’ve returned to this blog for a few reasons. The first is that I’m happy to say I’ve noticed a growing interest in finding natural methods to prevent pregnancy. There are more books, films, and voices appearing all over the world. I think this blog, and all the information I’ve gathered over the years, can contribute to the conversation. I want to help make sense of it all, recommend interesting documentaries and refer you to sources I find. In addition, there are other issues, connected yet different, that I would like to write about and share. My mastectomy was one of the best decisions I have ever made, and I will share that experience too when I’m ready. I have become the hotline for all things periods, contraception and STDs amongst my friends. Granted, fortunately, we can all get this information from the gynecologist. But if you want to feel that there’s someone in the flesh, who is experiencing the entire spectrum of feelings together with you, there is a place for you here.