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  2. Fertility awareness - Wikipedia

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    Fertility awareness methods may be used to avoid pregnancy, to achieve pregnancy, or as a way to monitor gynecological health. Methods of identifying infertile days have been known since antiquity, but scientific knowledge gained during the past century has increased the number, variety, and especially accuracy of methods.

  3. Birth control - Wikipedia

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    About 222 million women who want to avoid pregnancy in developing countries are not using a modern birth control method. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Birth control use in developing countries has decreased the number of deaths during or around the time of pregnancy by 40% (about 270,000 deaths prevented in 2008) and could prevent 70% if the full demand for ...

  4. Comparison of birth control methods - Wikipedia

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    This is an option where a medical professional will inject the hormone progestin into a woman's arm or buttocks every 3 months to prevent pregnancy. The failure rate is 4%. [1] Women can also get an implant into their upper arm that releases small amounts of hormones to prevent pregnancy. The implant is a thin rod-shaped device that contains ...

  5. 'Pregnancy is a risk I'm willing to take': Why some women are ...

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    Some women are opting for fertility tracking apps to avoid mood swings and weight gain on "hormonal" contraception. ... but then we have a contraceptive pill over 50 years old and this barbaric ...

  6. Intrauterine device - Wikipedia

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    Women over age 20 and those who have previously given birth are placed in category 1, meaning no special concerns are placed on use. [62] [63] Some women experience amenorrhea, or lack of menstruation while using an IUD. Menstruation occurs when a woman has not become pregnant and the uterus sheds its lining in preparation for the next cycle.

  7. Calendar-based contraceptive methods - Wikipedia

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    When used to avoid pregnancy, the standard days method has been estimated [22] to have perfect-use efficacy of 95% and typical-use efficacy of 88%. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] These figures are based on a 2002 study in Bolivia, Peru, and the Philippines of women of reproductive age having menstrual cycles between 26 and 32 days, [ 20 ] [ 23 ] : 505 and on a ...

  8. Family planning - Wikipedia

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    Some consider access to safe, voluntary family planning to be a human right and to be central to gender equality, women's empowerment and poverty reduction. Over the past 50 years, right-based family planning has enabled the cycle of poverty to be broken resulting in millions of women and children's lives being saved. [54]

  9. 5 Beauty Lessons All Women Over 60 Can Learn from Demi ... - AOL

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    Moore has sported many hair looks over the last four decades—even going as far as shaving her head for G.I. Jane. But nowadays, the actress has been rocking longer locks. But nowadays, the ...