Contraception
reduces pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality
, reduces the risk of developing certain reproductive cancers, and can be used to treat many menstrualrelated symptoms and disorders.
What is the importance of contraception?
Contraception
allows them to put off having children until their bodies are fully able to support a pregnancy
. It can also prevent pregnancy for older people who face pregnancy-related risks. Contraceptive use reduces the need for abortion by preventing unwanted pregnancies.
What is the advantage and disadvantage of contraception?
Advantages of hormonal methods of birth control include that they
are all highly effective and their effects are reversible
. They do not rely on spontaneity and can be used in advance of sexual activity. Disadvantages of hormonal methods for birth control include: The necessity of taking medications continuously.
What are the importance of family planning methods?
By providing a means for couples to have smaller healthier families, family planning
helps reduce the economic and emotional burden of parenthood
. Families with fewer and healthier children can devote more resources to providing their children with adequate food, clothing, housing, and educational opportunities.
Is contraception good or bad?
Clearly,
no modern method of contraception is completely free of health consequences
, whether adverse or beneficial or both. Oral contraceptives, which increase the risk of a variety of cardiovascular problems, also protect against PID, ectopic pregnancy, and two cancers of the reproductive system.
Why we should not use contraceptives?
Reasons for failure to continue to use contraception include the following: for some,
the risk of producing an unwanted pregnancy adds flavor to the sexual act
; some women rationalize their sexual activity, and this usually leads to discontinuation of contraceptive use; failure to change the contraceptive when needs …
What are the disadvantages of contraceptive?
The most common side effects are
spotting or bleeding between periods
(this is more common with progestin-only pills), sore breasts, nausea, or headaches. But these usually go away after 2 or 3 months, and they don't happen to everyone who takes the pill. Birth control shouldn't make you feel sick or uncomfortable.
What are the negative effects of contraceptives?
- Spotting between periods. Breakthrough bleeding, or spotting, refers to when vaginal bleeding occurs between menstrual cycles. …
- Nausea. …
- Breast tenderness. …
- Headaches and migraine. …
- Weight gain. …
- Mood changes. …
- Missed periods. …
- Decreased libido.
What are the dangers of family planning?
- Most commonly, changes in bleeding patterns,† including: Lighter bleeding and fewer days of bleeding. Infrequent bleeding. Irregular bleeding. No monthly bleeding. Prolonged bleeding.
- Acne.
- Headaches.
- Breast tenderness or pain.
- Nausea.
- Weight gain.
- Dizziness.
- Mood changes.
What is permanent method of family planning?
Permanent contraception involves
making a person incapable of reproduction
. Disrupting the tubes that carry sperm or the egg ends the ability to reproduce. This form of contraception should always be considered permanent, although the procedures can sometimes be reversed.
What are the three methods of family planning?
- long-acting reversible contraception – the implant or intra uterine device (IUD)
- hormonal contraception – the pill or the Depo Provera injection.
- barrier methods – condoms.
- emergency contraception.
- fertility awareness.
- permanent contraception – vasectomy and tubal ligation.
What is the best family planning method?
The kinds of birth control that work the best to prevent pregnancy are
the implant and IUDs
— they're also the most convenient to use, and the most foolproof. Other birth control methods, like the pill, ring, patch, and shot, are also really good at preventing pregnancy if you use them perfectly.
What is the safest form of birth control?
Progestin-only pills (known as “minipills”)
are safer for women who have a history of blood clots or have uncontrolled high blood pressure. Both types of contraception help regulate your periods, as well.
Is contraception morally right?
Contraception is not wrong
The moral case for contraception is largely based on the absence – in the eyes of supporters – of any good reason for considering birth control morally wrong. But there are many positive reasons why people believe that it is right to allow people to practice birth control.
Does the pill make your boobs grow?
The hormones found in birth control pills are synthetic forms of hormones that naturally occur in your body. When taking these pills, the level of hormones in your
body increase
. At these increased levels, these hormones can generate changes in your body, such as a temporary increase in breast size or weight gain.
What are 5 contraceptive methods?
Condoms, sponges, diaphragms, cervical caps and spermicide
are all barrier birth control methods. They each work differently, but they all create a sperm “barrier” during sex to physically prevent sperm from reaching an egg.
