‘What are the chances’: Pregnant with twins even after taking the morning after pill

After a Tinder hook up, this SA woman took the morning after pill. Six weeks later, she found out she was pregnant … with twins.

Taylor Whitcombe with twin daughters Delilah and Noah Whitcombe, now aged six months at their Elizabeth Park home. Picture: Mark Brake

For Taylor Whitcombe, swallowing the morning after pill an hour after a Tinder hook up made her feel like she was covered … until she found out she was pregnant with identical twins six weeks later.

“I just had this gut feeling something wasn’t right, so I took a test and it turned out I was pregnant,” Ms Whitcombe said.

“I never wanted kids, I never thought it was for me, and of course I happened to have twins.”

Ms Whitcombe said she and the father of the twins were intoxicated at the time, and didn’t use protection.

But she quickly took the morning after pill which, according to SA Health reduces the chance of pregnancy by 90 per cent effective if taken within the first 24 hours after unprotected sex.

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The Elizabeth Park woman said when she found out she was pregnant, she was influenced by the anti-abortion movements going on in the USA, and hoped at her six week scan the baby didn’t have a heartbeat to save her the devastating decision. It was then she found out there were two.

“I was very scared … but I would catch myself holding my tummy and smiling at the thought of being pregnant, I decided I would be making a really horrible decision if I got rid of them,” she said.

“I was like this is something special and amazing, what are the chances I’m ever going to have twins.

“I was 26, I didn’t know if I was going to be in a serious relationship to have kids again, so I went with it.”

The now 27 year old went through her pregnancy alone, but was overjoyed when her twin girls Delilah and Noah were born in February.

Taylor Whitcombe with her twins Noah and Delilah. Picture: Supplied

Six months on, she confesses she struggles with the father not wanting to be involved in her babies’ lives. He doesn’t even know the twins names.

“The way I see it, they (the twins) are the ones who miss out, not me, not him,” she said.

“It’s not about what we miss out on, it’s the girls.”

Luckily, Ms Whitcombe had the support of the mum Tanya, who would sleep on the couch and wake up with the twins at night so she could have some rest.

“No one ever pictures when they have babies, that they’re going to do it as a single parent, you always picture the house and the picket fence,” she said.

After the birth of her babies, the new mum said she suffered from post-partum depression and anxiety.

Now, six months on, Ms Whitcombe said Delilah and Noah have changed her life for the better. She’s even enrolling in a TAFE course in disability support work.

“The person I was before is just not me and not what I stand for,” she said.

“I didn’t care what happened to me … I would go out partying, typical binge drinking for months on end.

“Now I’m the complete opposite.”

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