Birth Control

[minnieoxox]

I have never bothered with contraception in my life, so I'm clueless. But after having my daughter a month ago, I definatly don't want to be getting pregnant for a good while!

I'm wondering about contraception, obviously loosing my baby weight I don't want to be on anything that will make me put on weight, so I'm worried about that. Bleeding a minimal amount would also be nice.
Any reccommendations?

Thanks x

[flamingoccm]

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minnieoxox wrote:

I have never bothered with contraception in my life, so I'm clueless. But after having my daughter a month ago, I definatly don't want to be getting pregnant for a good while!

I'm wondering about contraception, obviously loosing my baby weight I don't want to be on anything that will make me put on weight, so I'm worried about that. Bleeding a minimal amount would also be nice.
Any reccommendations?

Thanks x

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Talk to your doctor about what is best for you. Understand that all birth control pills have a side effect of weight gain, but that doesn't mean it'll happen. It's just a chance. After you have a baby, you can expect to bleed for 2 - 6 weeks. If you're breastfeeding exclusively, it acts as birth control for up to 6 months. It increases the amount of estrogen in your body and it prevents ovulation from occurring. It also burns a considerable amount of calories, so with breastfeeding and exercise, you should be able to lose the baby weight with few issues.

If you do want to use a birth control pill, you're looking at using a progestin-only pill because the estrogen in a combination pill can decrease breast milk production. The great thing is that they're just as effective, but they tend to give you a period every 3 months. I'm actually not aware of a progestin-only pill that doesn't work like that. I was on Seasonique for a few years and I really liked it. I don't think I gained weight from it at all, and I think I experienced spotting between periods once. 

[alegnatm]

I have been waiting to see you write about the progestin only pills, a girl wrote on another post that the pills are not as effective because they are designed for women who are breast feeding and the breast feeding already acts as a form of birth control to some extenet so the progestin pill (being less effective) is "perfect"

Ive been on the progestin only pills on and off for years because I get migraines so I can't take any pills with estrogen, and I know they are just as effective, and for me I would get a period every three months and then it stopped all together for about a year and then I started getting it again every month So I went off of it and got it out of my system and then I started it again, I got two periods in one month then skipped a month and then I just got it with ridiculous cramps. I feel like when I don't get for a while and then I do get it that its like a super period and all the PMS, heavy flow, and physical symptoms are 10x worse, does that make sense?

[docgirl]

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flamingoccm wrote:

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minnieoxox wrote:

I have never bothered with contraception in my life, so I'm clueless. But after having my daughter a month ago, I definatly don't want to be getting pregnant for a good while!

I'm wondering about contraception, obviously loosing my baby weight I don't want to be on anything that will make me put on weight, so I'm worried about that. Bleeding a minimal amount would also be nice.
Any reccommendations?

Thanks x

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Talk to your doctor about what is best for you. Understand that all birth control pills have a side effect of weight gain, but that doesn't mean it'll happen. It's just a chance. After you have a baby, you can expect to bleed for 2 - 6 weeks. If you're breastfeeding exclusively, it acts as birth control for up to 6 months. It increases the amount of estrogen in your body and it prevents ovulation from occurring. It also burns a considerable amount of calories, so with breastfeeding and exercise, you should be able to lose the baby weight with few issues.

If you do want to use a birth control pill, you're looking at using a progestin-only pill because the estrogen in a combination pill can decrease breast milk production. The great thing is that they're just as effective, but they tend to give you a period every 3 months. I'm actually not aware of a progestin-only pill that doesn't work like that. I was on Seasonique for a few years and I really liked it. I don't think I gained weight from it at all, and I think I experienced spotting between periods once. 

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haha yeah progestrone only pills really are just as effective as combination pills I never got pregnant when I was on them for 6 months granted I took them every day at the same time but I found that for me I had a period about 2 weeks after I started them then had some light spotting on and off for 2 months than the other 4 months no bleeding what so ever

[docgirl]

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minnieoxox wrote:

I have never bothered with contraception in my life, so I'm clueless. But after having my daughter a month ago, I definatly don't want to be getting pregnant for a good while!

I'm wondering about contraception, obviously loosing my baby weight I don't want to be on anything that will make me put on weight, so I'm worried about that. Bleeding a minimal amount would also be nice.
Any reccommendations?

Thanks x

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there are other options besides pills such as hormonal IUD which has progesterone, IUD with no hormones, implant (implanon) which lasts for 3 years and goes in the arm which is what I have and the shot personally for me I've found that birth control doesn't really cause weight gain but your eating and exercise habits do because yeah once I started watching what I ate and exercising the weight started to come off even though I'm on birth control

[flamingoccm]

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alegnatm wrote:

I have been waiting to see you write about the progestin only pills, a girl wrote on another post that the pills are not as effective because they are designed for women who are breast feeding and the breast feeding already acts as a form of birth control to some extenet so the progestin pill (being less effective) is "perfect"

Ive been on the progestin only pills on and off for years because I get migraines so I can't take any pills with estrogen, and I know they are just as effective, and for me I would get a period every three months and then it stopped all together for about a year and then I started getting it again every month So I went off of it and got it out of my system and then I started it again, I got two periods in one month then skipped a month and then I just got it with ridiculous cramps. I feel like when I don't get for a while and then I do get it that its like a super period and all the PMS, heavy flow, and physical symptoms are 10x worse, does that make sense?

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They are just as effective. I'm not sure why people think that they're not. They're not only prescribed for women who are breastfeeding.

I was on the progestin only pills for exactly the same reason, but I did notice that I felt like my body made up for lost time cramp-wise. I actually had to stop using them because I started developing some serious hypertension (high blood pressure) around my period. It was getting up to 160/100 and I felt REALLY sick. Now that I've stopped, I'm at 114/74. It's not a common side effect, though. My doctors were shocked that it was happening and they wanted to diagnose me with hypertension until I convinced them to let me stop the birth control and it's now completely resolved.