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female condomFemale condom—Worn by the woman, the female condom helps keeps sperm from getting into herbody. It is packaged with a lubricant and is available at drug stores. It can be inserted up to eighthours before sexual intercourse. Typical use failure rate: 21%,1 and also may help prevent STDs.Fertility Awareness-Based Methodsfertility awareness-based methodsFertility awareness-based methods—Understanding your monthly fertility patternexternal icon canhelp you plan to get pregnant or avoid getting pregnant. Your fertility pattern is the number of daysin the month when you are fertile (able to get pregnant), days when you are infertile, and days whenfertility is unlikely, but possible. If you have a regular menstrual cycle, you have about nine or morefertile days each month. If you do not want to get pregnant, you do not have sex on the days you arefertile, or you use a barrier method of birth control on those days. Failure rates vary across thesemethods.1-2 Range of typical use failure rates: 2-23%.Permanent Methods of Birth Controlmale and female permanent contraceptionFemale Sterilization—Tubal ligation or “tying tubes”— A woman can have her fallopian tubes tied (orclosed) so that sperm and eggs cannot meet for fertilization. The procedure can be done in ahospital or in an outpatient surgical center. You can go home the same day of the surgery andresume your normal activities within a few days. This method is effective immediately. Typical usefailure rate: 0.5%.1Male Sterilization–Vasectomy—This operation is done to keep a man’s sperm from going to his penis,so his ejaculate never has any sperm in it that can fertilize an egg. The procedure is typically doneat an outpatient surgical center. The man can go home the same day. Recovery time is less than oneweek. After the operation, a man visits his doctor for tests to count his sperm and to make sure thesperm count has dropped to zero; this takes about 12 weeks. Another form of birth control should beused until the man’s sperm count has dropped to zero. Typical use failure rate: 0.15%.Which contraceptive method is the best for you?take this quiz to find out:
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