Emergency Contraception For Unwanted Pregnancy!

Discovering you are pregnant when you don’t want to be can be one of the most terrifying moments in your life.

Then various questions can pop in your mind, such as what to do, what are the options, should I keep the baby, should I give the baby for adoption or should I abort the baby?

If you want to abort the baby, then you can consider emergency contraception, also called as morning after pills.

It is a birth control method that prevents pregnancy after having sex, so it is called as “the morning after pill”.

You can use emergency contraception immediately or up to five days after having sex.

Emergency contraception makes much less likely you will become pregnant. But, they are not as effective as the birth control methods that are used before sex such as condoms or pills.

There are two kinds of emergency contraceptive pills. Both these pills have same type of hormones that a normal birth control pill contains. You can safely use emergency contraceptive pill if you miss your everyday birth control pills.

Types of emergency contraceptive pills:

1. The first kind of emergency contraceptive pills contain a hormone called as progestin. It is the only type of pill that is available in US, usually with a brand name called as Plan B.

Plan B and various other most popular emergency contraceptive pills can reduce your chance of getting pregnant by 89%. Even if you become pregnant, these pills are less likely to cause any side effects on your baby.

It doesn’t mean that 11% of women become pregnant by using these pills. It just means that, they prevent 89% of the pregnancies that would happen when you don’t use birth control or the contraception fails.

For example, if 100 women have unprotected sex in the second or third week of their menstrual cycle, then 8 women can become pregnant. If the same women use emergency contraception, only one can get pregnancy.

Plan B contains emergency contraceptive pills. Each pill contains 0.75 mg of levonorgestrel and you need to take these pill 12 hours apart. You can these emergency contraceptive pills within 72 hours after having sex. Simultaneously, you can also use your every day birth control pill.

Women of age 17 years or under should need prescription for plan B. even if you take both plan B pills at a time; it doesn’t decrease its effectiveness or increase the side effects. Not taking plan B pills within five days after having sex can cause you to become pregnant. These emergency contraceptive pills work much better the sooner you take after having sex.

2. The second kind of emergency contraceptive pills contain both progestin and estrogen hormone, so they can be also called as combined emergency contraceptive pills. These pills can reduce your chance of becoming pregnant by 75% and there is a great chance to experience side effects like nausea and vomiting.

For example, if 100 women have unprotected sex in the second or third week of their menstrual cycle, then 8 women can become pregnant. If those 100 women use combined emergency contraceptive pills, only two can get pregnancy.

When you take birth control pills as emergency contraception, you must take the pills in two doses and 12 hours apart. The number of pills in each dose depends on the brand of the pill you use. You must use the same brand of pill for each dose.

After you take emergency contraception, it's normal for your next period to be different from usual.

• It may be earlier or later than usual.


• It may be heavier, lighter, more spotty, or the same as usual.