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Karen ..
Just read an article in our local weekly paper about the dilemma some families are facing as the economic conditions intensify: having to choose between buying food or birth control. Talk about a terrible double bind! How sad and ironic to decide that you must risk creating more mouths to feed in order to take care of the children you already have. ...
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Birth control and progesterone
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Jennifer
I woke up this morning and threw up. I've been sensitive to smells. My boobs hurt. I have weird cravings. Nope, I'm not pregnant again. I'm insane. There is no possibility of my being pregnant. I am 12 days into this cycle. A cycle right after a miscarriage. I don't usually ovulate the cycle after a miscarriage, but stranger things have happened. ...
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Male Birth Control
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Dr. Douglas Farrago
Chinese researchers are using testosterone injections as a form of male birth control and it seems to be working. USA Today reports that the results will appear in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. More work has to be done and long-term side effects needs to be teased out but the regimen looks promising. Word ...
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Breastfeeding and Birth Control
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Denise Punger MD IBCLC
This is an excerpt from Permission to Mother: Barbara’s breastfeeding is going well. Her OB wants to insert an IUD at her six week check-up. Susan said her OB will only give her the mini-pill. Rhonda said her OB wanted to give her a shot of Depo right after her baby was born. For women who exclusively breastfeed and have not resumed having a ...
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Male Birth Control
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Andrea
Personally, I wouldn't trust my partner to get a monthly shot as a way of pregnancy prevention for me, but I know there is a lot of buzz out there that men should take the initiative and be on birth control. Whatever, Web MD (among other publications, this is getting a huge amount of press) outlines why monthly shots of testosterone have a 99% cha ...
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The Birth Control Decision
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Mya
After over a year of trying to conceive and, in the end, needing a little help to get the job done, the birth control after baby conversation seems so strange. But, in our case, it is a necessity. We never received a convincing explaination/diagnosis for our infertility. Although we technically have a male factor morphology issue, the role that ...
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Birth Control Debate
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LunaNik
Ok, so there is a heated debate running on a mom's online panel I belong to. The debate is about providing middle school children with birth control. I know, I know...right now your thinking WHAAA???? Birth control for middle school children??? Are they crazy??? That's exactly what my first reaction was...no way!! But, then I read this article whi ...
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Birth Control to Reduce HIV in Africa
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Linda MacDonald Glenn
I don't know which to be more horrified about in this article entitled the 'Best-Kept Secret' for HIV-Free Africa : - that researchers realize that birth control can have a great impact on reducing the number of children born with HIV in Africa, but they can't do anything about it, because of the PEPFAR's ban on distribution of contraceptives or f ...
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