Birth Control #1: How Birth Control Works, Common Contraceptive Pills & Advantages To Birth Control Pill Use

Conceiving pregnancy and giving birth to children are believed to be divine blessings from God. However, due to some conditions, conceiving pregnancy could turn to be an unwanted or unneeded blessing sometimes and hence there may rise a need of preventing this from taking place. There are different reasons why someone would want to prevent herself from conceiving a child, but the reasons depends solely on the person or rather the family. Now let's take a look at what birth control is all about and how it works.

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What is birth control

Literally, birth control (also known as fertility control) means a practice whereby unwanted pregnancy is prevented by the use of oral contraceptives and other means. In more words, it is referred to as family planning, pregnancy prevention, fertility control, or contraception; birth control methods are designed either to prevent fertilization of an egg or implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus. Hence, this simply means a way of getting rid of every means of reproducing.

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How does birth control pills work.

Most birth control pills are "combination pills" containing a mix of the hormones estrogen and progesterone. They offer protection against pregnancy by blocking the union of spermatozoa (from man) and egg (ovulation in woman), preventing the release of egg. When no egg is released, pregnancy does not occur. These pills are used before or during sex while emergency contraceptives are effective for up to a few days after sex.

Birth control methods include barrier methods, hormonal birth control, intrauterine devices (IUDs), sterilization, and behavioral methods. They are used before or during sex while emergency contraceptives are effective for up to a few days after sex. Now, lets take a look at some common contraceptive pills based on users reviews.

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Common contraceptive pills

There are lots of contraceptive pills used in preventing pregnancy. Lots of them. However, we'll be taking a look at 10 most common ones with good user reviews and positive feedback and later talk about their usage and side effects.

• Mirena Intrauterine
• Sprintec (28) oral
• NuvaRing vaginal
• Seasonique oral
• Trinesaa (28) oral
• Ocella (oral)
• Camila oral
• Ortho-cyclen (28) oral
• Lo Loestrin Fe
• Lutera

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Advantages To Birth Control Pill Use

After taking a look at the common birth control pills and before we talk about how these pills are taken, I'll love us to talk about the advantages to birth control pill use. Taking birth control pills has great advantages more than you might have imagined. These advantages go beyond termination of pregnancy to the extent of solving some other health problems present in the body. Below are some of these advantages. Let's take a look at them.

• The use of birth control pill can lower the risk of pelvic inflammatory diseases, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer.
• The birth control pills can lessen heavy bleeding, pain and severity of endometriosis and fibroid tumors
• If the birth control pill is taken correctly, it is very effective as it gives utmost prevention against pregnancy.
• Acne or Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) tends to improve with some birth control pills.
• Lighter periods, less frequent periods,or possibly no periods at all depending on the type of pill taken and dosage schedule.

Next we are going to discuss the warnings related to birth control use (who can and can't use birth control pills) and their side effects. There are much for us to discuss, but I'll be stopping right here for now.

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