Tip 1
Learn self-control. Say NO FIRMLY if you're on your fertile days. Do not have sex during your fertile days.
So how will you know you're ovulating? There are many ways to learn if you're fertile or not but I'm not going to enumerate all of it here. My tested way is the calendar method and checking your cervical mucus' consistency.
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| Follow this chart and read this article to learn more about this method. |
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| Illustration 2 - cervical mucus method |
TIP 2
Download the My Calendar Period Tracker by Simple Design Ltd. application on your smartphone. It's available on iOS and Android platform.
Once you have downloaded this app on your phone, it's easier to track your ovulation days.
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| Features: - Never lose your data - Automatic backup data to Dropbox and Restore from Dropbox - Backup your period and cycle tracker data to phone or email - Cycle tracker, Period tracker - Unique diary design (cat and dog theme) - 43 symptoms and 64 moods to choose - Pregnancy mode when you get pregnant or finish pregnancy - Notification for period, fertility and ovulation - Weight and temperature charts - Period tracker, cycle tracker, fertile tracker, ovulation tracker Log management - Period tracker menstrual cycles - Menstruation period, cycles, ovulation predict - Customize your personal period length, cycle length and ovulation - You can choose 1, 3 or all months data average as your period cycle length - Security protections (password) - Multi accounts to track different persons' periods - Restore Period tracker data from SD card and email - Multi-language to choose - Forums |
Tip 3
Use a condom during fertile days. No withdrawal method whatsoever. Use protection during these days. Suffer now or suffer later. Mind over heart first girls. Buy and bring your own condom wherever you go. No condom, no sex. Make it a firm rule. Do something productive aside from making babies. Maybe give him a blowjob if you're okay with that. Take control. Don't let him take control of you.
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| Photo from WeHeartIt |
Tip 4
Eat lots of almost ripe papaya or unripe papaya. Do you know that papaya inhibits the semen immobilization? Let your boyfriend eat papaya seeds or secretly feed him papaya seed by adding it to his shake whatsoever. Papaya is a natural spermicide and that's a fact. Check the clinical study here.
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| photo by boldsky |
Tip 5
Drink vitamin C regularly. There's a Russian study claiming that high doses of Ascorbic Acid appeared to increase estrogen levels which contributed to the interruption of an otherwise normal pregnancy. According to the study, they measure estrogen levels before and after treatment with ascorbic acid, finding that estrogen levels were higher after taking the ascorbic acid. Of the 20 women, 16 began menstrual-type bleeding within 1 to 3 days from administration of ascorbic acid.
In my case, I've tried this method to help my menstruation early and it works! It came 3 or 4 days earlier than expected. However, stop drinking Vitamin C if you're pretty sure you are pregnant because it is known to be abortifacient. Also, individuals who have sensitive kidneys, kidney disease, kidney stones, or kidney problems of any kind, may want to avoid large amounts of Vitamin C. High doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) may cause the formation of kidney stones.
Tip 6
Drink Hibiscus flower otherwise known as Gumamela as tea. Hibiscus is a kind of emmenagogue or a substance that stimulates or increases menstrual flow or a menstrual stimulus. If you are suffering from menstrual pain commonly known as dysmenorrhea, you may drink this herbal concoction to alleviate your pain.
Due to its emmenagogue effects, I discourage pregnant women from taking hibiscus drink to avoid complications.To learn more about emmenagogues, check out this page.
Tip 7
Drink contraceptive pills or get an IUD. There's even a new kind of contraception introduced here in the Philippines but this has been long introduced in western countries. My officemate is currently using birth control implant called the Implanon or Nexplanon. It's very discreet and you'll not get pregnant for about 3 years. A flexible plastic matchstick is implanted in your arm by adoctor or a certified nurse. However, as any birth control method, some women have a bad reaction to the implant. I guess it's better to ask your doctor about this kind of birth control first plus it does not come cheap. The cost of getting a birth control implant is about 3000 to 5000 pesos up.
I have not tried Implanon yet but I've tried taking up birth control pills and have stopped it since I suffered weight gain and adult acne. My doctor prescribed to me Dianne 35 pills and I took it for 2 years and after that I realized, I will never go back to pills again. It has lots of side effects but one thing for sure you will not get pregnant.
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