Pregnancy

This is where you’ll find information on human reproduction – how it really happens and works and how it really doesn’t – pregnancy options, including comprehensive abortion information, pre-natal, pregnancy, labor, birth, post-partum and pregnancy loss resources, healthcare options, and help with pregnancy scares.

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  • Heather Corinna

If you took your pregnancy tests two weeks after your last risk, you can feel pretty confident in the negative results you got. If you did not wait that long, you’ll want to retest when it has been two weeks since your last risk. It would be early to have pregnancy symptoms already from a risk two…

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  • Stephanie

It’s not likely for a person to be pregnant and still menstruate – especially past very early pregnancy – though some people will experience some vaginal bleeding (which is not the same as menstruation, or a period) during pregnancy. Part of the problem is that many people term any vaginal…

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  • Heather Corinna

There are a few possibilities. • Maybe she is on the pill, but either doesn’t know how to use it properly, or hasn’t been using it properly, such as by missing pills, confusing active pills for placebos, or had an interaction with her pill and another medication, like an antibiotic. • Maybe you’re…

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  • Sarah Riley

Without some help…no. In order for a pregnancy to occur, the first thing you need is a sperm and an egg. Individuals who have ovaries are going to be able to provide the ovum (or egg) while individuals who have testes are going to provide the sperm. So if you have two individuals who have ovaries…

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  • Sarah Riley

Choosing a pregnancy test can be pretty overwhelming. This article is designed to give you a general overview of pregnancy tests. It will discuss what a pregnancy test does, the difference between a urine test and a blood test, how to choose a pregnancy test, when and how to use pregnancy tests, and finally what to do after a pregnancy test.

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  • Sarah Riley

Well, panic doesn’t really do anybody any good, so I’d advise not spending your time in a panic period. However, based on what you described you do have both a pregnancy risk and an STI risk. Withdrawal (or “pulling out”) is not really a good method of birth control. (Our own founder, Heather, is…

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  • Susie Tang

The difference is that PMS symptoms won’t cause your pregnancy test to turn positive. Using symptoms to determine if you’re pregnant is really unreliable. If you absolutely must know if you’re pregnant, wait 10 to 14 days after the sexual encounter in question then take a pregnancy test using the…

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  • Heather Corinna

Understand that if a person with a penis is aroused and/or erect, then there is likely some pre-ejaculate at some point. If his penis is visible, you will likely be able to see it, but for obvious reasons, if it’s inside your vagina or your mouth, you’re not going to be able to see it, and both you…

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  • Heather Corinna

Know what is really NOT a good way to find out if you’re able to be a Dad at 15? To wind up being a Dad at 15. You seriously do NOT want to be that guy. Heck, even if you have a partner who terminates a pregnancy you caused, that’s an awful lot to put her through for nothing. It’s very unusual for a…

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  • Sarah Riley

Unprotected sex of any sort (even without ejaculation) has both a pregnancy risk and an STI risk. So yes, you do have a risk from this contact. Pre-ejaculate (which happens throughout the course of an erection) isn’t something that anybody is really going to feel happening and it can contain sperm…