Getting off birth control so you can get pregnant
Posted on 20. Jul, 2010 by Marjorie Greenfield MD in Pregnancy and Birth
So how exactly do you go off of your birth control method? Easy, if you have been using a barrier like condoms or a spermicide—just stop. If you have been using an intrauterine contraceptive, like the progestin intrauterine system (Mirena) or a 10-year Paraguard IUD, your practitioner will need to remove it. Hormonal methods like [...]