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| Contraception for a Teenager | Of course, you will want to have a baby and to become a parent someday; or it may even happen, that you will never wish to have a child. Any parent will tell you how much a baby brings into someone’s life: having children brings unimaginable joy and happiness to the live of every person, who becomes a parent, but there are many routine things, which make people somewhat tired and bothered (though these bothers are only “happy” troubles), like sleepless nights, continuous screaming, etc. Anyway, pregnancy should occur when a person is ready and wished it to happen. With you, it may happen at 18, at 28, or even at 38, but for sure, it is not now. Therefore, as far as you are not ready to become a parent yet, but you have been involved into sexual relationship. Or if you are feeling, that you may begin having sex in no time, it would be a good idea to apply some method of contraception in order to provide protection for yourself not only against unplanned pregnancy, but against sexually transmitted diseases as well.
 Sex is quite an amazing experience, and while having it, the last thing you will be thinking about is the possibility of becoming pregnant. However, you are to be aware of, that it is enough to take only one “oops” to become pregnant. That is why you should better look for a method of contraception, which would be the best and the most suitable for you and your partner to apply. To do it, you will have to look at all available options and decide on what you think is best. If you choose a method, and after a while, you see, it is not for you, you can always switch to some other method of contraception later on.
Let us consider some of the most available methods of contraception, every person, even a teenager may apply. Of course you know, that high schools are places, where many students have a lot of sexual exploring, and that is why you will have to think about some good protection against sexually transmitted diseases, the outbreaks of which are not rare things, which hit high schools. The only method of contraception, which provides nearly 100% protection against sexually transmitted diseases as well as against an unplanned pregnancy is considered to be a condom either male or female.
There are some methods of contraception, which are not good for teenagers at all. Of course, you wish to have children in the future, and even if you do not think so now, you may change your mind later. Therefore, neither vasectomy nor tubal ligation (tying your tubes in a kind of a knot) is for you.
It is an extremely good idea to use the so – called dual method of contraception. Doubling the method of contraception, you have a possibility to protect yourself not only from pregnancy, but from sexually transmitted diseases (that you or your partner may not know you have) as well. If you are a healthy girl, a good choice for your age is to take the birth control pill to be protected against an unplanned pregnancy and use either male or female condoms to have a protection against sexually transmitted diseases. Of course, condoms alone do provide protection against unplanned pregnancy, but birth control pill is considered to be much more effective from this point of view.
Of course, there are much more methods of contraception, than condoms and the birth control pills, which are considered to be the most effective, safe and easy to use methods by most people. Nowadays there are bunches of available methods of contraception to choose from.
Thus, you are to consider which method would be the best for you and for your partner as well. You should always keep in mind, that the more protection you have, the less risk you are running of an unplanned pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases. The application of some method of contraception “most of the time” only sets you for an accident expectation.
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