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.

Avoid Unplanned Pregnancy Video

Below is the video I made and uploaded to You Tube some months back on how to avoid unplanned pregnancy with the help of a chart guide I named DontGetPreggy Guide.
With this video, it was mentioned here of a product called Cycle Beads which is a tool for determining fertility period of a woman based on her menstrual cycle. This Cycle Beads is where I patterned the making of the chart DontGetPreggy Guide.

Pnoy versus Padre Damaso

President Noynoy Aquino has recently announced that he is in favor on the use of birth control methods among couples who want to practice family planning.

He further stated that couples themselves are in the best position to determine what is best for their families and what methods they would apply whether it be artificial or natural method of birth control.

This latest announcement by the President on the subject of responsible parenthood drew the ire anew of the Catholic bishops who are strongly opposed on the idea of promoting both the artificial and natural birth control method on family planning instead of just only one method which is the natural method of birth control.

However, President Aquino appears not bothered by his pronouncement even by a threat of 'excommunicado' by the Catholic prelates and was not inclined to reconsider his stand on the issue.

I remember when I started this blog, I cited that one of the reasons why birth control program has failed in the past is the lack of funds and support coming from the previous administrations to effectively implement this program. But now, that it finally got its full backing from this new and present government and even appropriating funds for the project, a new setback again has cropped up but now with the opposition coming from no less but these Catholic bishops.

This program of family planning has been going on since way back of the Marcos regime but its implementation was not very much successful on the grounds cited above. These bishops should have come out a long time ago when the program is still in its offspring to air their dislike on the plan but why only now?

And where is the so-called "separation of state and church" as being taught in the secondary education. I think the duty of the Church is to merely provide spiritual guidance to its vast Filipino Catholic members on the issue of birth control.

It is now the chance of the government to make its move but why are they now mingling on the affairs of the State. Why not let the government do its part on where the church obviously failed as shown by several incidents of abandoning of babies and leaving unborn child right infront of Catholic churches. Are these bishops just saving their own faces and could not admit the fact that they have miserably failed on their spiritual guidance against pre-marital sex and on birth control?

I hope our President will not be coward by the threats of these bishops of making him 'excommunicado' from the Catholic church.

Fetus found at airport, and near Manila churches

In my last post here, I featured the news story of a baby boy who was abandonded by her mother inside a toilet of a passenger jet Gulf Air at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

Well, I was surprised to read another story that happened also at the same national airport. But this time, it was a fetus discovered dumped in a trash can of the airport terminal 1's departure area. This incident took place some few months back.

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More incidents of fetus discoveries also ocurred just recently, this time it was found near Manila churches. One was found near Quiapo church while the other was discovered near the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros, Manila.

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These are very disturbing news of the fact that many women chosed to abandon their babies or seek informal abortion from elsewhere instead of giving good life to their infants.

I just want to remind those having unwanted pregnancy at the moment that there are also people outside that are more than willing to adopt a child.

A good example is George Francis, the baby boy who was left inside a plane's toilet and is now being taken care of the social welfare office. It was reported that the agency have been flooded by offer for adoption of the innocent child.

You may also have a relative or distant relatives or friends who longed to have a child and is very much willing to adopt a child much more from a person they already knew.

Newborn babies abandoned in an aircraft toilet!

Some incidents of newborn babies beeing left abandoned in an aircraft's toilet were discovered lately. The latest incident happened in Manila at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

The airport doctors have successfully recovered back the infant to its normal and healthy condition. Aircraft cleeners sweeping through the passenger jet Gulf Air plane found it dumped in a bin in a toilet and quickly alerted airport officials of their surprise discovery.
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Meanwhile, two months earlier, in India this same incident was also witnessed at Rajasansi International Airport where an airline passenger also left a newborn baby boy inside the aircraft's toilet.
An unwed medical student was found to have given birth to the child during the flight. She was examined by doctors at the airport while the infant was rushed to a hospital where his condition was declared 'normal'.
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