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Birth control has a long history. Presumably, at the beginning men were more interested in its invention and improvement. They were always so reluctant to take a burden of fatherhood onto their shoulders!

Meantime, the feministic movement sprung up. Since then both genders feel more comfortable, having a great variety of birth control methods, which help arrange a life of a couple to their liking and postpone a buying of a spacious house with a white fence.

In some cases pregnancy can be forbidden for women due to their health problems or age. Sometimes risks of transmitting hereditary diseases to the offsprings can be an obstacle for the birth of children. Very often a man and a woman simply need to use the right of choice.

Birth control methods help prevent psychological problems and preserve physical health while living a full life, without relinquishing the right of love, sex and happiness.

In order birth control not to fail, not to spoil health and work properly, you must know all the nuances of birth control methods. Get the most detailed and irrefragable information concerning them on pillwatch.com.

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Alternative ContraceptionAlternative Contraception
The amazing thing about the character of a human being is to keep on going even if the desired result is already achieved. We always go on searching for better ways, new things, and more effective methods. ...

Birth Control ArticlesBirth Control Articles
Perhaps ancient women couldn't even imagine that it might be possible to make sex without becoming pregnant or to stop pregnancy almost at any stage of it. Sex-pregnancy-labour was like an indissoluble, ...

Emergency ContraceptionEmergency Contraception
The notion of emergency contraception appeared many years ago. However, at first the cases of emergency were limited to the rape victims only, suggesting that exclusively such persons needed extra protection ...

Female Hormonal ContraceptionFemale Hormonal Contraception
A human being and an animal share practically the same basic instincts, such as struggle for existence and breeding. However, the difference between the human and the animal is that the first learned how to ...

Female Non-Hormonal ContraceptionFemale Non-Hormonal Contraception
Desire to control child-bearing was always inherent to the human kind. Even at the dawn of humanity people tried to prevent unintended pregnancies and plan the number and spacing of their children. Lack of ...

Male ContraceptionMale Contraception
Though contraception may seem to be the invention of modern people worried by overpopulation of the Earth planet, it is not really so. Since the Stone Age people used different techniques to prevent ...
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This test gives you necessary information about the process in female’s body, thanks to which we all, men and women, are leaving on this small planet. What do we know about it? This is the time to know not only where the child comes from, but whom ...

Quiz on Plan B and IUDs for Emergency Contraception.
Emergency contraception is what people need in order to avoid pregnancy after the unprotected sexual intercourse occurred. With the help of this quiz it will take a few minutes for you to check your knowledge of the key facts on Plan B as the most ...

Emergency Contraception Quiz
Emergency contraception is a very important issue. Actually, it is one of those topics any person should have at least some knowledge about, especially taking into account that we live in the world full of surprises and unexpected evens ...

Quiz on IUDs, Cervical Caps and Diaphragms
Contraceptive methods, such as intrauterine devices, diaphragms and cervical caps, have a very long history. Even at the times of Hippocrates and Avicenna women used certain types of pessaries in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies. During many ...

Spermicides Quiz
Though spermicides are commonly considered to be one of the “exotic” types of contraception, this method of pregnancy prevention is still in use by up to 1% of people, practicing birth control. Very often spermicides are used in combination with ...

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Tendencies of Future Contraception
Nearly one third of the pregnancies are defined as ‘unintended’ all over the world. And 90 % of these women with pregnancies were using some contraceptive method in that moment, which ...

Barrier Birth Control Methods
We’ve started to practice preventing pregnancy long time ago, as long as human is living on earth. What is interesting about sex, that there’s thousands of ...

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Cervical Mucus Method
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Rhythm Method of Birth Control
Rhythm method belongs to natural family planning, which, though used in all the times, has never been as popular as other contraceptive methods. Statistics says that only 1% of American women relied ...

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Alternative Contraception Standard Days Method Contraception seems to be the prerogative of women in many countries of the world. They are likely to use birth control methods more often than men. Even if a man and a woman make a mutual decision ...

Birth Control Fertility and Infertility in Women  There is one thing that is sure to be called the blessing of our lives as a family – a child. A child along with his or her problems, sleepless nights, responsibility and expenses can ...

Emergency Contraception Pills for Emergency Contraception The effectiveness of the modern types of contraceptives, including condoms and popular daily pills for women, is extremely high, ranging from 98% up to 99.99%. Such figures can make even the most ...

Female Hormonal Concpt Injectable Contraceptives Overview Contraceptive injections, also known as the “shots,” are probably the most discussable and controversial form of contraception. Though this birth control method was known to the ...

Female Non-Hormonal Concpt Intrauterine Devices Olive oil, pomegranate pulp, ginger, tobacco juice… Stay on this page. Yes, you are still going to read about intrauterine devices contraception. (It is just a glimpse of a history of how the society ...

Male Contraception Heat Method of Male Contraception There are only two options of male contraception nowadays: condoms and vasectomy. Of course, such a limited choice cannot satisfy all the needs of a modern man, who gets more and more interested and ...

Products
Alesse Alesse is the lowest hormone formulation available. It may be better tolerated in women with bloating or nausea on higher dose formulations.

Jolessa Jolessa is the generic version of the Seasonale extended- cycle oral contraceptive

Norplant Norplant is an effective, long-acting, reversible contraceptive for women that protects for up to five years.

Ortho Evra Ortho EvraOrtho Evra is the first FDA - approved weekly form of reversible contraception that's 99 percent effective when used correctly. You can swim, exercise, bathe, shower, and wear the patch in warm, humid conditions. And because it's so thin, you can easily wear it under your clothes.

Ortho Tri-Cyclen Ortho Tri-CyclenOrtho Tri-Cyclen is the first birth control pill that has been proven for the treatment of moderate vulgaris acne, in women ages 15 or older, who menstruate, are unresponsive to other topical or oral anti-acne medications and show no medical reasons prohibiting their use of oral contraceptives.

Plan B Plan B is used to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex or failure of other forms of birth control (such as condom breakage, or missing 2 or more birth control pills). It causes changes in the cervical mucus and uterine lining, making it harder for sperm to reach the uterus and harder for a fertilized egg to attach to the uterus.

Seasonale Seasonale is the first FDA-approved birth control pill packaged and marketed as a way for women to skip periods. With Seasonale, women take hormone for 84 consecutive days, then hormone-free tablets for 7 days, resulting in one menstrual period every three months.

Yasmin Yasmin is the only birth control pill that contains the synthetic progestin known as drospirenone. Drospirenone is an alternative for women who experience undesirable side effects from other common oral contraceptives.
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