Arrggh! Not Just Yet!

Don’t worry – if you don’t want to be a Daddy/Mummy just yet, there are ways to stop it from happening, but some ways are better than others

• Don’t have sex - abstinence - totally reliable -stick with it as long as you can.
• Put something in the sperm’s way – like condoms good if you have to have sex - and also helps to stop you getting nasty bugs.
• Make sure the egg doesn’t work – the combined pill - great as long as you remember to take the pills, and even better if you use it with condom to stop you getting nasty sexually transmitted bugs
• Make it more difficult for the sperm to get through and make sure the egg doesn’t work – the progesterone-only pill - not quite so safe as the 'combined' pill.
• Don’t have sex when the woman is releasing an egg – the rhythm method or the man withdrawing just before he comes - both lousy - don't risk it, but better than nothing
• Putting other barriers in the sperms way - like the cap/diaphragm - not popular amongst the young as a bit messy and has to be thought about well ahead of having sex.
• Emergency Contraception Pills: these pills contain progesterone hormones, which stop any fertilised egg from settling into the wall of the uterus(womb) and developing into a baby.
• If all else goes wrong you can consider whether you should have an abortion or not.