Birth Control all you need to know

Contraceptives

The availability of safe modern contraceptives has enabled women to avoid having an unwanted pregnancy, and couples to space their children. Spacing children to intervals of 2 or more years, improves a woman's health. Contraceptive choices now available permit the woman, or the couple, to choose the most appropriate contraceptive for their particular circumstances. Before choosing a particular contraceptive most people want to know its effectiveness against pregnancy, its safety and the side effects associated with its use. Read more about choosing Birth Control.
A method for evaluating the effectiveness of the various contraceptive methods is the Pearl Index, which calculates the unintended pregnancy rate from the formula below:

                    The number of intended pregnancies
                  --------------------------------------------------- x   1200
                    Total months of exposure to pregnancy

The result is expressed as the failure rate per 100 woman years. Some women find it embarrassing to consult a medical practitioner (especially if it is a male) about contraception. But a sensitive doctor will do everything possible to diminish that embarrassment. The doctor will take a general history, a menstrual history and a sexual history in a non-judgmental way. With this information, the doctor will be better able to help the woman decide which method of contraception she would prefer it most cases. Although some doctors may not have the time to spend going through the whole range of options with you and just give you the common used methods.

Ranking of contraceptive methods by rate of effectiveness.
Group A	Most effective	Failure rates
	Tubal ligation/vasectomy	0.005-0.04
	Combined oral	0.005-0.30
	Sequential oral	0.20-0.56

Group B	Highly effective
	IUD (intrauterine device)	0.5-3.5
	Continuous progestogen	1.5-2.3
	Diaphragm or condom and cream (all users)	4.0-7.0
	highly motivated	1.5-3.0
	Periodic abstinence (all users)	10.0-30.0
	highly motivated	2.5-5.0
Group C	Less effective
	Coitus interruptus	30.0-40.0
	Vaginal foam or cream	30.0-40.0
Group D	Least effective
	Postcoital douche	45.5
	Prolonged breastfeeding	45.0

Breaking News

SEATTLE - Health officials are in the process of contacting up to 200 women to warn them about birth control shots administered through the Seattle-King County Health Department.

King County Public Health says there might be a problem with the generic version of the Depo Provera shots given at the Renton clinic after two women got pregnant.

The Health Department is calling or sending the letters to women who received shots at their ten Seattle-King County Public Health clinics.

Out of precaution, they will no longer administer those shots and they want women to come in for pregnancy tests.

NM Family Planning Program

Depo Provera is a hormone injection that lasts for three months to prevent pregnancy.
It is possible that one of the two may have been pregnant before she got the shot, but other did become pregnant after her shot.

Depo Provera is a hormone injection that lasts for three months to prevent pregnancy. The injection contains synthetic progesterone and no estrogen. It requires a clinic appointment every three months and is 97-99.7 percent effective as birth control. The Seattle-King County Health Department uses the generic version - an injectable progesterone, medroxyprogesterone - not Depo Provera

How to Choose The Right Birth Control Quickly, Easily and Cheaply, and Then Enjoy your Sex and Family Life to the full.

How to choose the right birth control has never been easy for women. Especially if you have not had much to do with it in the past. Or you have had big problems with choosing the correct method before. If you are reading this you must be pondering what is the right Birth control for you. Or you may have had a bad experience before, like excessive weight gain. Or you are simply trying to workout what is the best method for you to use at first.

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