Thousands
of women want to know how not to get pregnant against their will. Birth control
and planned parenthood are amongst the most sensitive, most debated areas of
sex and sexual health. Safe sex is part of your well-being. One occasion of
carelessness is enough to turn your life upside down – so it is important to
know how not to get pregnant. Always use protection.
Birth
control includes all the methods that you can use to prevent pregnancy: birth control pills, condoms, intrauterine devices, vasectomy, tubal ligation,
hysterecotomy (partial or radical).
How Not to Get Pregnant: Hormonal Contraception
Hormonal contraceptives are safe. If you want to
know how not to get pregnant, read the following list of hormonal methods.
Combined oral
contraceptives,
commonly known as birth control pills, are amongst your safest choices. These
pills contain hormones named progestin and estrogen. This method has a failure
rate of 0.5 percent if used perfectly, its typical failure rate is 9%. It is
important to follow your gynecologist’s advice and read the medicine label
carefully. It is best if you take your pill at the very same time every single
day, for instance, 10.05 p.m. The more accurate you are, the less risk you
take.
Progestin only pill or minipill has a failure
rate of 9%. It does not contain estrogen. Take the pills at the same time every
single day.
An intrauterine device is a T-shaped
contraceptive device that a doctor will insert in your womb. It is a long-term
solution. It may cause menstrual bleeding that is heavier than usual, and it
can cause other painful symptoms like cramps during your
period. Its failure rate is low. A copper
T intrauterine device can stay inserted in the womb for ten years, it has a
failure rate of 0.8%. A hormonal IUD, known as levonorgesterel intrauterine system, LNG IUD, can stay within your
womb for five years, its failure rate is 0.2%.
An implant is the safest solution, with a
failure rate of 0.05%. Your doctor will insert it beneath your skin on your
upper arm. The tiny device contains progestin, released in your body throughout
3 years.
Injections are safe, too, they
contain the hormone progestin. You can get a shot every three months. The
failure rate is 6 percent, somewhat lower than that of the pill.
Patch should be worn on your
lower body – buttocks, abdomen – or upper body, except for the breasts. It
releases progestin and estrogen into your system. Put on a new patch every week
for three weeks, on the fourth week, you are supposed to have your period. Its
failure rate is 9 %, for women over 200 pounds it is higher.
Hormonal vaginal
contraceptive ring:
you put it inside your vagina and wear it for three weeks. Remove it for a week
to have your period, then use another ring. Its failure rate is nine percent.
Emergency contraception must not be used often. It
is for cases when you did not use any protection or when protection failed. You
can take emergency contraception pills up to 5 days after having sex
unprotected.
Barrier Methods
Take
your time to learn about methods of how not to get pregnant.
Barrier methods are much less safe than hormonal contraceptives.
Do not use them if you want to avoid getting pregnant at any cost.
Diaphragms have a failure rate of 12 percent. Male condoms are good enough to protect
you from sexually transmitted diseases, but when it comes to unwanted
pregnancy, their failure rate is considerable, 18%. Female condoms have an even higher risk, a failure rate of 21
percent. Spermicides have a failure
rate close to 30 percent, which means using them is never a safe option.
Permanent Methods of How Not To Get Pregnant
If
you are sure that you do not want children, your best option of how not to get
pregnant is contraceptive sterilization.
If
you have a radical hysterecotomy or
you just get your ovaries removed,
you have no chance to get pregnant ever again. If you have a partial hysterecotomy, you leave your
ovaries intact, but you get your whole womb removed, you cannot get pregnant.
No risk is involved here.
Tubal ligation has a low failure rate,
0,1%. Transcervical sterilization is
also safe, with a failure rate of 0,1%. Vasectomy
has a similarly low failure rate.
Unsafe Ways
Hopefully
you know that the rhythm method and interrupted coitus are absolutely
unsafe ways of how to not get pregnant. Even the most vehement naturalists
admit that time and again they “result in the births of wonderful children”.
Abortion
Abortion and abortion pill are emergency methods for
birth control, only for cases when other protective methods have already
failed. There are unfortunate situations in life when it can be an option.
