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The Fourth Trimester: What Considerate Postpartum Care Actually Looks Like

Luteal Phase Symptoms: Why You Feel Like a Different Person Before Your Period

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Why Intrusive Thoughts Get Worse Before Your Period — and What Helps

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Cycle Syncing: How to Hack Your Hormones Without Losing Your Mind

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Beyond the Curve: How an Arcuate Uterus Affects (and Doesn’t Affect) Your Life

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Low Testosterone in Women: What You Need to Know

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Understanding Hyperovulation & What It Means for Your Fertility

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Amenorrhea & Fertility: Can You Ovulate Without a Period?

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Ovulation Nausea: Why You Feel Queasy Mid-Cycle & What to Do

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Can You Get a Pimple on Your Labia? What Does It Mean?

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Can You Get Skin Tags on Your Vagina?

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What are Normal Bumps Inside Vaginal Walls?

Katie Mill

Outie vs. Innie Vagina: What’s the Difference?

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Nabothian Cysts: What Every Woman Should Know

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Cervical Polyp: Causes, Symptoms, and Recovery Tips

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What Is a Cervical Cap and How Do You Use It?

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From the community

Recent discussions

Contraception

We usually use condom. But I'm so so scared that I'll be pregnant again by the littlest chance possible. I can't afford another baby I don't even have energy or mental capacity for it. My body can't handle it. I can't even make a mistake, I can't have any surprises. Im too scared to use the coil and I don't want to have pills. Has anyone got pregnant still using condoms?

Rascal Wipes!!

Does anyone know where I can get rascals wipes from? There OOS everywhere, or know something that is very similar to them please

OBGYN

My doctor prescribed me with microbid 100 MG 90 capsules to take for bacterial infection until I'm due December 10th. I don't even think its even safe for me to take it especially for 90 days ... thoughts?

Bleeding on BC pill 3 months postpartum

I started taking BC pill again this last month and I’ve been bleeding a good amount for over a week now is this normal?

Unprotected 👀

I due to get my implant put in tomorrow, I took a Ella one pill on the 14th (I also had unprotected on Saturday.. I know dumb right) my period is due to start today but it hasn’t yet… I don’t know what to do with the appointment tomorrow, should I get another Ella one ? 😥🫣😬

No sex in ovulation window works as birth control

Me and my partner have been doing this for 3 months now but wondering if its silly to think it will last with no pregnancy!!!

Would you be upset if your partner was taking Viagra pills to have sex with you

Viagra pills are prescription oral tablets used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED) by increasing blood flow to the penis during sexual arousal.

IUD questions

So I've only used birth control pills. The downside is I have like zero sex drive. Like yes when we're intimate I'm in the mood, but it's like so beyond far from my mind otherwise. I plan to stop taking the pills when my baby is 18 months and try for another baby. After the baby would be born I've considered getting the IUD so my question is if anyone has had low sex drive with the IUD or any other problems you can think of?

Birth control, what’s your experience?

Hey girlies, I just wanted to come and vent because I know I’m crazy and I think my hormones are getting the best of me… I feel like I’ve been having soft baby fever. My ovulation is crazy before or after during it doesn’t matter. The father of my child has been asking me if I would consider birth control because it’s not like I’m trying to deliberately get pregnant, but I also wouldn’t be mad at the idea if that makes sense😅
Anyways, I feel completely scared of looking at all of the birth control. I used to be on the shot and then the one time I stopped taking it since I was 14 I almost made 12 months and then my baby daddy got me pregnant. And then for maybe almost a year they put a device in my arm that they eventually took out because they thought it was causing other medical symptoms and I wasn’t sexually active anyways they just wanted to do it just to do it if you know what I mean. But I’ve been looking over the Options down to the patch and I do currently suffer from chronic migraines, nausea and dizziness, and I’ve seen terrible reviews where people claim they’ve gotten blood clots and other variety of different symptoms. I feel like I wanted at least try it, but it seems so traumatizing and then on the other side I feel like every time I go to the clinic or the doctors office. Every other person I come into contact with tells me a story about how every other one of their kids they were on birth control.😭😭😭 I wouldn’t be mad if I ended up with A Child, but I don’t wanna have to go through having something like IUD or Nexplanon or vaginal ring, inserted and go through all of that to either end of pregnant anyways or something worse you know? Sometimes I hate being that 5% that always catches all the random symptoms and side effects.😩😩😩

I’m hoping somebody can ease my mind on their experience. The last thing I wanna do is the IUD or pills I hate having to swallow pills, but I’ve only ever done the shot and that was ages ago.

Has anyone fell pregnant from the pull-out method?

On no birth control

Birth control question

I’m on the implant in my arm had it for about 4 months now recently I have been cramping non stop (they typically come and go in waves) feels like my period cramps but a bit worse I stoped bleeding when I got it put in. Has this happened to anyone else? I’m so confused on what I should do. (I also don’t know what group to put this in too.)

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