Failure Rate of Popular Female Contraceptives

You may notice that the DontGetpreggy Guide I made was intended only for those women who had a regular monthly menstrual cycle. So one may ask how about those who have an irregular menstrual cycle? How will they or how can they prevent unintended pregnancies? Well, for those women with irregular monthly periods, there are some other form of contraceptives in order to avoid the consequences of having an unplanned pregnancy.

There are so many other contraception nowadays, which you can choose from and among them are IUD, pills, male condom, diaphragm, female condom, withdrawal and spermicides. But the effectiveness of all these rely much on how well the procedures are being consistently and correctly followed. You just have to seek the right one for you. You can choose a contraceptive that's used daily, weekly, monthly, once every three months, once every three years or even once a decade.

In the chart above, the rate of failure was significantly higher than those who followed the procedure with consistency and precisely. The chart also shows that IUD's appear to be one of the safest forms of protection against unintended pregnancy.

We now have a new generation of young adults and a vast majority of them are sexually active but are in cloud about modern contraception and they don't know also how to make a reasonable choice. Any articles that deals on the topic above would be of good value and make them well informed and be aware of all the alternatives available so that they can avoid the consequences of an unplanned pregnancies.

Stress During Early Stage of Pregnancy May Affect Baby's Gender

There was a study made in another country that stress on the early stage of pregnancy may affect the baby's gender and may reduce the chances of having a baby boy. The study conducted in Chile reveals that pregnancy can be impacted by exposure to stress itself rather than the factors that often accompany or cause stress, such as poverty, the researchers said.

The study made by Dr. Karine Kleinhaus, an assistant professor of psychiatry, obstetrics & gynecology, and environmental medicine at New York University, said in a journal news release that this findings may be related to previous research, which has found that male fetuses tend to grow larger than females and need more resources from the mother, and therefore are more likely to miscarry in times of stress. In addition, male fetuses may be less robust than females and may be less capable of adapting their development to a stressful environment in the womb.

The study also revealed that women in this country who experienced an earthquake during their second and third months of pregnancy had shorter pregnancies and were more likely to have premature babies.

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Hi there! I have been away for more than a year and glad I'm back. I've been busy on my other projects that I wasn't able to make a new post on this blog for a long time. Add to that, I am also in the process of completing a software which I call DontGetPreggy calculator that I am planning to incorporate on this blog. You see, this software application I am constructing will have an ease of use for those who are observing family planning or those who just want to avoid complications of having an unwanted pregnancy.

Well, actually the program is already done but still having problem on making an .exe set up file so that the application will be able to run on any pc. I still don't know at this time if the software application could be uploaded here but hopefully it can be done once I completed this project. Anyway, the application is in Visual Basic Form and I'm having a hard time on this last and final step that I always end up getting an error message. Hopefully, on the following day I'll be able to hit the right codes and get it done.

I also made some design changes on the DontGetPreggy Guide but it is still the same as the previous one, only it has a new background and some color changes to make it more appealing for readers of the new generations. The picture above shows how it looks now and with a different caption but similar in meaning.

In the past few days, I was also contemplating to change this blog and make it in a local language but I finally decided to leave it as it is. By now, I'll again try to fix that software application and pray that I would be able to show it finally on my next post.