First, when you're on the pill, you do not ovulate. The "period" you get every month comes from withdrawing the hormones when you take the placebo pills. This is why you had brown spotting after missing several days of pills. It is like taking the placebo pills. However, and I could be wrong, but I thought most forms of the pill require you to use backup protection the whole first week after skipping 2 or more active pills. That being said, you probably did not ovulate (odds are against it, though stranger things have happened). Your body most likely would have viewed the days you missed the pill as cycle day 1 (12/, and most women ovulate around day 14 of their cycles. Still, if you can't remember to take the pill on time regularly, you should look into the patch or nuvaring or something. Also, just off the pill, many women do not go perfectly back to their regular cycles, delaying ovulation even further (some do but many don't--it took me over 5 weeks to have a period again after I stopped the pill).

So then how do people get pregnant on the pill..???

Dont you have to ovulate to get pregnant...And if you dont ovulate on the pill...Then you wouldnt be able to get pregnant...Right??

Well...

Nothing is perfect..

People that become pregannt on the pill may have taken many pills late, or missed then alltogether.

Antibiotics, saint johns wort, topomax, and other drugs, can reduce the effectivess of the pill. If you reduce the effectivess you risk 'breakthrough ovulation'.

Vommiting shortly after using the pill can create a situation in which you did not even take the pill.