Birth Control

More than 50,000 women are terminating pregnancy through their GPs in Ireland since the legislation was introduced in 2018 new figures reveal. The data – provided by...

Free birth control should be made available to all women, regardless of their age, Green Party senator Pauline O’Reilly has urged. Health Minister Stephen Donn...

Female sterilisation is an operation that has a 99% chance of preventing pregnancy. Tubal occlusion is a procedure that must be taken seriously.  As a method of birt...

From today, women aged 17 to 25 can go to their GP and register for free contraception. Contraception has come a long way in the last few decades. Although condoms w...

Here is everything you need to know about the coil.

Emergency contraception is a safe, effective and responsible method of preventing pregnancy when regular contraception has failed or no contraception was used. If yo...

If you’re interested in ‘natural contraception’ as a serious method of birth control, you need to know all the facts.  Natural contraception is abo...

Here is everything you nrrd to know about the contraceptive patch.

We have all heard the old wives tale that you can’t get pregnant while you are breastfeeding, or heard of someone who had an unplanned pregnancy because they t...

New research published on contraception in Ireland has revealed serious misunderstandings and misconceptions by Irish women on contraception and fertility. The resea...

New research has shown that women who take the contraceptive pill are less likely to develop a severe version of the coronavirus. Using data from their symptom track...

The National Women’s Council of Ireland has stated that the biggest barrier to family planning is the sky high price of contraception. Shockingly, only 19% of ...

What is the contraceptive implant? The contraceptive implant is a small flexible plastic rod which is placed under your skin. It slowly releases the progesterone hor...

Scientists have strived for decades to create a mass market birth control, the male contraception pill for men. The idea was first floated as far back as 1957, but s...

Anyone having a sterilisation must see it as a permanent step. Reversal operations are difficult to do and there is no guarantee of success. In other words, do not h...

Women who would rather not take a pill every day for their form of contraception might consider a vaginal ring instead. The vaginal ring is a flexible, transparent, ...

This is a good method for people who have completed their families, or who are sure they never want to have children. Either the man or the woman can be sterilised, ...

These are barrier methods of family planning which fit inside the woman’s vagina. They form a barrier at the entrance to the womb (cervix) which stop the man&#...

The letters IUCD stand for Intrauterine Contraceptive Device. This means it is placed inside a woman’s uterus (womb). It is also known as the IUD, loop or coil...

A LN-IUS is a small, “T-shaped” contraceptive device which is placed in a woman’s uterus (womb). It is also known as the Mirena coil. An IUS is mad...