It was so upsetting waiting in the clinic

Tatiana Bickley-parton, 29, lives in Westgate-on-sea, Kent, and owns a construction company with boyfriend Sam. They have been together for eight years. Tatiana was four weeks pregnant when she found out she was expecting. She had a termination at eight weeks. She had used the app for four months and had unprotected sex 12 times in that period. She said: “I went on to Natural Cycles because a friend of mine was on it and was trying for a baby. I liked the idea of not having any hormones and any of that stuff that comes with the Pill. “I thought it would be quite a good way to cleanse my system. “Like most girls, I’d been on the Pill since I was 16 and so I thought I had all this stuff in my system. “I used it for four months then I became pregnant. “It just wasn’t the right time. We’d put all our money into the business and were both working flat-out. So I had an abortion. “I had sex on a green day. I thought ‘oh perfect’. But it just didn’t work. “My periods were quite irregular – if one was a week late, I didn’t worry. But then I started to think, hang on, I haven’t had a period in a while.

“On the app I put my measurement in every morning like usual and it said ‘you might be pregnant, you need to take a pregnancy test’.

“So I did and it said I was pregnant. There was never any apology or option to call customer support.

“I complained. They were like, ‘oh can you let us look at your data so we can stop it happening to someone else’ but it didn’t feel that sincere.

“They give all these stats to help women feel all safe and secure about it but it doesn’t work. Even my doctor said you couldn’t trust it.

“I knew it was 100 per cent not the right time but it is upsetting when you are in the clinic waiting for an abortion surrounded by all these other women. But mostly I felt annoyed. I trusted the app.

“I probably only had sex 12 times before I got pregnant.

“What made it worse is a lot of my friends are struggling to conceive and having IVF. It made me feel so guilty.

“They know the app isn’t 100 per cent accurate and know people are going to fall pregnant but they palm you off with ‘not really our fault, we did tell you the risks’.”