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Apr 17, 2024 · Yes — you can get pregnant after having unprotected sex one time. But, how likely is it? Well, that all depends on you, and the regularity of your cycle. ⏱️ To get pregnant from unprotected sex, you would have had sex around the time you ovulated.
- Overview
- Using Medical Options To Prevent Pregnancy Without A Condom
- Using Natural Methods to Diminish Your Risk of Pregnancy
- Understanding the Added Value of Using a Condom
- How Do You Prevent Pregnancy?
There are a variety of ways to decrease the risk of unwanted pregnancies without using a condom. You can speak to your family doctor to discuss (and receive prescriptions for) various medical options, or you can opt for natural methods. Keep in mind, however, that there are benefits to a condom beyond contraception - namely, the prevention of STIs ...
Take hormonal birth control pills.
If you are a woman seeking to prevent pregnancy without using a condom, one of the most common options is to take hormonal birth control pills. These are available from your family doctor; the pills are composed of either a blend of estrogen and progesterone, or just progesterone. You normally take one per day for 21 days followed by seven days of "sugar pills" (during which your body experiences a "withdrawal bleed" in place of a period).
There are a variety of different birth control formulations, and you can speak to your family doctor about the different options to determine which one is best for you.
The advantage of taking birth control pills is that they are 91% effective in preventing pregnancy (and even more effective when used at exactly the same time every day without missing any doses).
One way to diminish the chances of pregnancy without using a condom is to try the withdrawal method. This method consists of the man removing his penis just prior to ejaculation, so that the sperm do not have a chance to travel up the woman's vagina in a way that may lead to pregnancy.
The challenge with this method is that some sperm may leak out prematurely (prior to ejaculation and thus prior to withdrawal of the man's penis), which is what makes this method only 78% effective at preventing pregnancy.
Technically, there are only a few days each month when a woman can actually become pregnant. Most women have a 28 day cycle, which starts on the first day of her period. On average, ovulation occurs on day 14, but a woman can be fertile for several days before and after ovulating.
If a woman has sex significantly before or after her most fertile days, her chances of becoming pregnant are much lower.
Consider a condom for STI risk reduction.
Before making the decision to forego condom use, it is important to consider the role that condoms can play in STI risk reduction as well as in preventing pregnancy. Even if you are using other contraceptive devices, such as a hormonal form of birth control, other contraceptive methods do nothing to prevent you from STIs (sexually transmitted infections). Therefore, condoms have an important advantage when it comes to practicing safe sex.
Condoms protect you from STIs by reducing genital-to-genital contact, and by also blocking the ejaculatory fluid from the man's penis from getting into the woman's vagina. Both of these types of contact are ways in which an infection can be passed from one person to another.
Use a condom if you do not fully trust your sexual partner.
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Jun 29, 2016 · This is what she tells her wannabe-pregnant patients (assuming they have unprotected sex twice a week): “50 percent will be pregnant within three months, 75 percent will be pregnant in six...
Apr 5, 2024 · 1. ‘Morning After’ Pill. The emergency contraception pill, or what is sometimes called the ‘morning after pill’, can be used to prevent pregnancy after sex if contraception wasn’t used, contraception failed, or a woman has been sexually assaulted.
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If you have regular, unprotected sex (sex every 2 to 3 days without contraception) you are likely to get pregnant. More than 8 out of 10 couples where the woman or birthing person is under 40 years old will get pregnant within 1 year if they have regular unprotected sex.
