Natural family planning, barriers, hormonal methods, copper IUDs, and permanent sterilization have varying degrees of effectiveness. Family planning involves tracking fertility cycles and sexual ...

The lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) is a type of birth control that relies on hormones your body makes while breastfeeding. If you strictly meet the guidelines, LAM can be 98% effective in ...

A person may find a more effective way to prevent pregnancy by switching birth control methods. Every birth control method works slightly differently and each has potential benefits and side effects.

Birth control is so personal. As a family physician, I talk to my patients about birth control all the time. And the more I do it, the more I've come to realize that no two patients are alike.