Guidelines for Preventing Pregnancy

Not all women desire to become pregnant. There may be times when a woman wants to conceive and those times in which she want to avoid a pregnancy. Women can find guidelines for preventing pregnancy from various sources including her healthcare provider, the local library, her family and friends, Websites that are centered on preventing pregnancy and of course articles such as the one you are reading now.

There are many reasons to prevent pregnancy besides the desires of the woman to not conceive or to put off having a family. Medical reasons exist in which a woman or her partner would not want to bring a child into the world such as when there is a situation in which either potential parent is a carrier for a disorder that would be detrimental to the child they would produce. Genetic counseling can pinpoint these situations. There are also certain times in life when pregnancy might be undesirable such as when the participants in sex are teens or younger, or when one of the sexual partners is facing a chronic or serious illness, or when the woman is older than she would want to be when she conceives. Guidelines for preventing pregnancy would come in handy for all of these situations.

There are many ways to prevent pregnancy the most tried and true being abstinence (the lack of having sex). Other ways of preventing pregnancy while having sex are: barrier birth control methods, emergency contraception, hormonal birth control methods, IUD, withdrawal method, and the natural family planning method of birth control.

When a person prevents pregnancy by practicing abstinence they are refraining from having sex. It can often be tough to practice abstinence when in the midst of peer pressure which often is the case with teens. Abstinence requires that the individual practicing it refrain completely from any act of sexual intercourse, which involves the exchange of body fluids. Abstinence is 100% effective in preventing pregnancy.

Barrier birth control methods include using a cervical cap, diaphragm, male condom, female condom, contraceptive sponge, or a spermicide.

An emergency contraception or morning after pill is used as a form of birth control in the event that the individual had unprotected sex, or in the case where there was a sexual assault, rape or other event where the birth control method noticeably failed. An emergency contraception is actually a dosage of different pills that are made up of estrogen and progestin or it may be progestin only. This option is provided as "Preven or Plan B" to individuals under age 18 in prescription form. This type of contraception prevents or reduces the chance of an egg being released in the female, or it thickens the cervical mucus, which decreases the chance for the sperm to reach and fertilize an egg that has been released, or it changes the lining of the uterus, to decrease the probability of the fertilized egg to implant.

Hormonal birth control methods include using a birth control patch, birth control pills,, injections such as the depo-provera or lunelle injections, or using a vaginal ring.

The IUD comes in either a copper IUD or a hormonal IUD.

The withdrawal method of preventing pregnancy is when the male withdraws his penis from the female's vagina prior to ejaculating. This method requires the male to be responsible for withdrawing when he is in the midst of really enjoying sex. This method has a failure rate of approximately 19%.

Natural family planning method of preventing a pregnancy is when the female is keenly aware of her own fertility by monitoring her monthly cycle. There are different terms used to describe natural family planning including the "Natural Family Planning (NFP), the "Sympto-Thermal Method", and the "Billings Method".

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