birth control

You’ve been having unprotected sex. That means you have been at risk of pregnancy and well as sexually transmitted infections. The pregnancy risk is moderate to high, depending on your fertility, and your partner’s sexual habits (as in, if he has ejaculated recently before unprotected intercourse…

Sara: so long as you took the test properly, at this stage of the game, there’s earnestly no reason to be concerned you’re pregnant. With emergency contraception, it’s normal to have both or either some menstrual cycle kookiness for a little while, and/or some unexplained vaginal bleeding. That…

Unprotected intercourse, with or without ejaculation, poses high risks of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The pregnancy risk is substantially smaller than had there been full ejaculation, but it still may be a risk. Not knowing when this happened, if it has been less than 120…

Good on you for doing so much research, but if you’re using the birth control pill, then you’re not ovulating, nor most fertile at any given time. The combined pill suppresses ovulation, so there’s no sense in charting when you’re on it, because there isn’t anything TO chart: your fertility status -…

The short answer is that it is techinically possible, but is not likely. The longer answer is that there are a lot of variables, and we still need more study to be done on this to give a better answer. Do we know that pre-ejaculate fluid can contain sperm? Yes, we do. We also know that there are far…

One thing to understand about hormonal birth control is that it’s sometimes NOT advised for people dealing with depression, because the particular hormones in birth control can make some kinds of depression worse for some people. Sometimes they may have no impact on depression at all, but it’s…

This is absolutely, positively, no cause for concern. Sperm can’t live in dried semen, and generally only thrive in moist semen that is outside the body (save in a lab environment where it’s carefully preserved) for about 20 minutes at a maximum. Too, when people with penises urinate, there…

It’s amazing that with something as safe, simple, affordable and revolutionary as emergency contraception that it STILL isn’t being used by millions of people who could use it, and who would prefer to avoid an abortion or an unwanted pregnancy. In part, that’s because so many doctors and clinics still do not inform and educate people about EC. Here’s some EC clarity, on the house. Pass it on!

We get a lot of questions from teens who are wondering if they can prevent pregnancy after intercourse, whether the concern is due to a broken condom or from not using any method of contraception in the first place. Regardless of how it happened, there is something that can reduce the risk of pregnancy if used within 120 hours (or with an IUD, eight days) of your risk. That something is Emergency Contraception.