A mom of four became pregnant with three of her kids despite “religiously” using the contraceptive pill and condoms.
In a bid to put a stop to her ever-expanding brood, the super-fertile 29-year-old is now demanding her hubby has the snip.
Becky and Ed Gower now have four kids under the age of 5.
Despite their best efforts, using the pill and then condoms failed the couple three times.
And while they are over the moon at their three sons and daughter, Ed is set to have a vasectomy, to lower the risk of any more surprises.
Becky became pregnant with Dylan, now 5, while she was taking the combined pill.
The couple were thrilled at their surprise, and even decided to give their baby son a little brother, Archie, now 4, just a year later.
But, deciding their family was now complete, Becky then went back on the pill, taking the mini pill religiously at the same time each night, as directed.
She became pregnant for a third time with baby Finn, now 2, within a matter of weeks.
After giving up on the pill, she and Ed decided to use condoms as a contraceptive — but after one split, she was forced to rely on the morning-after pill.
She was stunned to discover she was pregnant again with Cora, now 1.
Now, the family of six have decided enough is enough, and Ed is planning on having a vasectomy to stop their family growing any further.
Becky said: “We’re going to look into Ed have a vasectomy soon — we love our children and love the fact that we didn’t plan our life, but I think that four babies is definitely enough.
“I’ve tried everything now but nothing seems to work — my body must just reject the hormones.
“We just use condoms at the minute because I don’t feel comfortable putting more hormones into my body after having the babies.
“But it does make us nervous every time we have sex, thinking that the condom could split and we might be on baby number five.”
Social media manager Becky first became pregnant when she and husband Ed had been together for just three months.
She added: “I was taking the combined pill when I became pregnant.
“Ed and I had only started seeing each other in August 2011, and I realized that I was pregnant at the beginning of December that year.
“I had just come back from traveling around the world and was working as a waitress at the time.
“I hadn’t come on my period, but because I was so stressed at work, I put it down to stress and ignored it.
“It wasn’t until the lack of period kept playing on my mind that I realized that I should probably take a pregnancy test.
“So I went and got one on my lunch break at work and just did it in the staff toilets, and it came up positive.
“I was so shocked, but even more than that I felt guilty — because I’d been drinking for the last seven weeks and not looking after myself, when all the while I was pregnant.”
After having Dylan, Becky and Ed decided that they would have another child, so carried on having sex without contraception.
Becky said: “After we had Archie, we decided that that was enough.
“We had two perfect little boys, so I went on to the mini pill, because I was still breastfeeding Archie and the ‘mini’ is the only pill you can use if you are.
“I’d only had two periods since Archie was born, so I wasn’t surprised when my one this month didn’t come.
“I was stressed with this pregnancy, as my life had just started to settle down and get on track.”
She added: “At this point we desperately felt like this was our last baby.
“So because all of the other pills that I had used didn’t work, I realized that it would probably be better to just use condoms.
“So we did, and they were fine, for about seven months.
“One night we realized that the condom had split.
“Roughly 18 hours after we had sex, I went and got the morning after pill, and I thought I was fine because it was within the advised 24-hour band.
“But that wasn’t the case — because then I fell pregnant with my first baby girl.”
Cora was born in June last year, and completed the family of six — for now, at least.
Despite sticking to condoms, Becky still gets worried that her contraception will fail her and is looking to find a more permanent alternative.
Becky said: “Using condoms is fine at the moment, but then if it splits again, that will become a problem.
“Being a mother of four, my body has been through a lot — I don’t think I need to put any more hormones into it really.
“I’m not willing to go back to other contraceptive methods, especially when they don’t work for me.
“Ideally we are going to look into doing something a bit more permanent and a bit more effective.”