Behavioral Birth Control Methods

If you are not ready to have a child, behavioral birth control methods can sometimes help prevent pregnancy.

Behavioral methods of birth control relay on couples adjusting there sexual practices to reduce the chances of unplanned pregnancy. These methods are advantageous and that they are free and required no prescription.

Withdrawal is a method of birth control whereby a man pulls his penis out the vagina before ejaculation. This can prevent pregnancy by keeping the sperm from meeting the egg. Unfortunately 30% of people who relay on withdrawal method conceive anyway this is because even pre-ejaculate can cause a pregnancy. It also takes a lot of self control for a man to pull out at the height of pleasure particularly if he I prone to premature ejaculation.

Some couples relay on behavioral fertility awareness methods or FAMS. This depend on a woman tuning into here bodies ovulation cycles and refraining from sex on days when she is likely to release an egg. Before a couple can use FAMS, they must understand that a man’s sperm can live in a woman’s body for five or six days. A woman’s egg meanwhile survives for one day after release.

There are several ways to determine if a woman is ovulating. One is which is called the temperature method. A woman body temperature rises minutely between 0.4 to 0.8 degrees on the day she ovulates and remains elevated until here period. A couple is less likely to conceive between three days after the temperature rise to the day it falls again. Other couples use the calendar method where the woman charts her menstrual cycles and abstain from sex on the days she is like to be fertile. Usually the five day prior to day of and day after ovulation. While each of this FAMS can work there are only about 80% affective assuming the methods are followed strictly. This is because ovulation cam be altered by even slight stressors like illness or diet alterations.

In addition most women do not ovulate at the same time every month and charting fertility patterns consistently requires much dedication. In addition, none of the behavioral birth control methods with the exception of abstinence offer any protection against another common result of intercourse, sexually transmitted diseases. Intercourse can easy result in conception so couples who do not wish to have a child should use birth control when being intimate. Talk to your doctor about the method that is best for you.

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