How to avoid unwanted pregnancy

Abortion prevention involves several aspects. This includes educating girls about pregnancy (before puberty), supporting women who decide to give birth, contraception, and a sensible approach to family planning.

In cases where a married couple or a single woman wants a child, it is not necessary to talk about the prevention of abortion, but it is often the opposite. Unwillingness to get pregnant can have a number of reasons:

1. health problems;
2. poor financial condition;
3. unwillingness to take responsibility for someone;
4. the desire to walk up.

This is not all the prerequisites for not wanting to have children, but often women who are not set up for motherhood become pregnant and then either give birth and bear their motherhood as a heavy cross, or terminate the pregnancy.

Every year, the number of abortions in Russia is increasing. Unfortunately, these are not only sexually mature women, but also minors and even schoolgirls. Everywhere, in women's clinics, maternity hospitals and gynecological offices, women are told about various types of contraception, they distribute booklets about the negative consequences of abortion, which include:

1. Early consequences:

• bleeding after an abortion;
• incomplete abortion, after which repeated curettage is required;
• genital infections;
• damage to the walls of the uterus.

2. Late consequences after abortion:

• hormonal disorders;
• adhesions and scars on the uterus;
• disorders of the endocrine system;
• pelvic inflammatory diseases;
• inability to bear the following pregnancies;
• infertility;
• psychological disorders;
• suicidal tendencies.

If an unplanned pregnancy has occurred, and the woman does not intend to keep it, then it is necessary to carry out prevention after abortion to preserve the patient's health (both physical and psychological) and her reproductive functions.

Contraception as a preventive measure against abortion

There are many ways to avoid an unwanted pregnancy. Some are known for a very long time, while others are newer, which appeared quite recently. Both of them deserve attention, and their effectiveness depends on many factors. It is worth remembering that no method is able to 100% protect a woman from fertilization.

Methods of preventing pregnancy can be divided into two categories: traditional (approved by specialists) and non-traditional (not carrying a proven effectiveness). Both have both positive and negative sides. Any ways to prevent unplanned pregnancy should be coordinated with your gynecologist.

The traditional ones include:

Non-traditional or traditional methods of contraception

In the old days, people figured out how to prevent unwanted pregnancies without the help of pills and other contraceptives, of which there were not so many. Some methods have reached the present day and many resort to them now for the prevention of abortions.

Interrupted sexual intercourse (PPA) is, perhaps, not the most ancient method of prevention. It is used not only in the Russian Federation, but also around the world. This method consists in removing the penis from the vagina immediately before ejaculation. Perhaps this method could be called quite effective, because a man does not end up in a partner. But there is one “but” — spermatozoa are quite viable and, being on the sexual organ, even in small quantities, are able to enter the uterus during repeated sexual intercourse. In a small amount, sperm can be released with a male secret, so there is a risk of getting pregnant even before ejaculation.

Douching a woman. Spermatozoa do not survive in an acidic environment, due to this fact, some women perform douching with lemon juice and other alkalis before or after the act. Such a procedure can harm a woman's health, ranging from vaginal dysbiosis, ending with burns of the mucous membrane of the female genitals.

Breastfeeding or the method of lactation amenorrhea. Many women still believe that it is impossible to get pregnant while breastfeeding a child. This is not entirely true. Prolactin suppresses the production of eggs only for the first six months and only in cases of compliance with certain rules:

• Feed your baby on demand and at night;
• Do not give the baby any sucking objects (pacifiers, bottles);
• Do not finish feeding with a mixture, bait;
• Do not top up with water.

Only if all these points are met, there is a good chance to insure against unplanned pregnancy until the child is 6 months old.

The calculation of safe days is based on:

• The calendar method, for which the most basic condition is a regular cycle;
• Basal temperature measurement. This method is quite long, it requires observing the temperature for several cycles in a row every day;
• An intuitive method. Many women feel approaching ovulation for some symptoms;
• Conducting tests for the presence of ovulation. Given that the test must be performed twice a day throughout the entire cycle, this method is quite expensive.

Any of these methods of traditional medicine does not provide guarantees and is not a way to prevent unwanted pregnancies, and therefore to prevent abortions. Only a doctor can choose a suitable method of contraception for a particular woman.

Pregnancy is better than not having it

In the gynecologist's office, you can always get a reminder about a reasonable approach to family planning, in particular, conception and pregnancy. If an unplanned pregnancy has occurred, then do not forget that millions of women around the world are trying to get pregnant after an abortion, are treated for infertility, undergo artificial insemination several times and still do not have the opportunity to give birth to a baby. This is much scarier than pregnancy "at the wrong time".