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    Family Planning: What Are The Advantages of A Contraceptive Injection?

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    Family planning refers to factors considered by couples in deciding if and when to have children, including the number and age spacing of children. It often involves contraceptive methods and practices to limit family size and control pregnancy timing. Family planning services enable individuals to freely determine these reproductive choices. Contraceptive injections contain hormones that prevent pregnancy for 13 or 8 weeks depending on the type, without needing daily action. They are very effective but can cause side effects like changed periods, weight gain, and mood changes.

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    Family Planning: What Are The Advantages of A Contraceptive Injection?

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    Family planning refers to factors considered by couples in deciding if and when to have children, including the number and age spacing of children. It often involves contraceptive methods and practices to limit family size and control pregnancy timing. Family planning services enable individuals to freely determine these reproductive choices. Contraceptive injections contain hormones that prevent pregnancy for 13 or 8 weeks depending on the type, without needing daily action. They are very effective but can cause side effects like changed periods, weight gain, and mood changes.

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    Family planning refers to factors considered by couples in deciding if and when to have children, including the number and age spacing of children. It often involves contraceptive methods and practices to limit family size and control pregnancy timing. Family planning services enable individuals to freely determine these reproductive choices. Contraceptive injections contain hormones that prevent pregnancy for 13 or 8 weeks depending on the type, without needing daily action. They are very effective but can cause side effects like changed periods, weight gain, and mood changes.

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    Family Planning

    Family planning refers to the factors that may be considered by a couple in a


    committed relationship and each individual involved in deciding if and when
    to have children.Though rarely articulated, family planning may involve
    consideration of the number of children a couple wish to have as well as the
    age at which they wish to have them.
    However, it often involves methods and practices in addition to
    contraception. It is most usually applied to a female-male couple who wish to
    limit the number of children they have and/or to control the timing of
    pregnancy (also known as spacing children). Family planning may encompass
    sterilization, as well as abortion.
    Family planning services are defined as "educational, comprehensive medical
    or social activities which enable individuals, including minors, to determine
    freely the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by
    which this may be achieved".

    Contraceptive injections
    Contraceptive injections contain a progestogen hormone which is similar to the
    natural progesterone that women produce in their ovaries. There are three types of
    injection. Depo-Provera and Sayana Press protect you from pregnancy for 13
    weeks. Noristerat protects you for eight weeks.

    What are the advantages of a contraceptive injection?

    You dont have to think about contraception for as long as the injection lasts.
    You can use it if you are breastfeeding.
    It is not affected by other medicines.
    It may reduce heavy painful periods and help with premenstrual symptoms
    for some women.
    It is a good method if you cannot use estrogens, like those in the combined
    pill, the contraceptive patch and the contraceptive vaginal ring.

    What are the disadvantages of a contraceptive injection?

    Your periods may change in a way that is not acceptable to you


    Irregular bleeding may continue for some months after you stop the
    injections.
    Women may put on weight when they use
    Depo-Provera
    The injection works for 13 or eight weeks, depending on which type you have.
    It cannot be removed from your body, so if you have any side effects, you
    have to be prepared for them to continue during this time and for some time
    7afterwards.
    There can be a delay of up to one year before the return of your periods and
    fertility after stopping the injection.
    Contraceptive injections do not protect you against sexually transmitted
    infections, so you may have to use condoms as well.
    Some women experience side effects such as spotty skin, hair loss,
    decreased libido, mood swings and headaches.

    How effective is a contraceptive injection?

    How effective any contraceptive is depends on how old you are, how often you have
    sex and whether you follow the instructions. If 100 sexually active women dont use
    any contraception, 80 to 90 will become pregnant in a year.

    Contraceptive injections are over 99 per cent effective. This means less than four
    women in every 1,000 will get pregnant over two years. The injection is a method of
    long-acting reversible contraception (LARC). All LARC is very effective because while
    it is being used you do not have to remember to take or use contraception.

    Frequency

    Will a contraceptive injection affect my periods?

    Your periods will probably change.


    In most women periods will stop completely.
    Some women will have irregular periods or spotting (bleeding between
    periods).
    Some women will have periods that last longer and are heavier.
    These changes may be a nuisance but they are not harmful.
    If you do have prolonged bleeding it may be possible for the doctor or nurse
    to give you some additional hormone or medicine that can help control the
    bleeding. They may also check that the bleeding is not due to other causes,
    such as an infection.

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