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One of the most psychologically disturbing things for a woman is becoming pregnant at a time when she does not want to. A woman may notice she is pregnant in any number of ways, which may include physical tests or just by noticing symptoms. The immediate symptoms that most people know to look out for are; the want to vomit or nausea, actually repeatedly vomiting, becoming tired in an abnormal manner (similar to the tiredness in cancer patients), the want or need to consume certain foods – particularly sudden craving for sour or the urgency for sweets. Also, the requirement to urinate often, especially during the night is a good give-away.

Of course pregnancy can be effectively detected by using any of an assortment of pregnancy detection kits that are readily available over the counter at most chemists. Becides this, clinical blood and urine tests can detect pregnancy (although this is usually resorted to if there is a need to urgently find out of a woman is pregnant).

But there’s much cause for relief these days. Contraception allows people in our modern day to avoid pregnancy as best as possible. The effect of contraception is mainly to prevention of fertilization of the female egg, but it may also be a means of terminating sperm or egg or both.
Some of the best contraceptives work by effectively preventing sperm from reaching the uterus. Condoms, a latex sheath usually used to cover the erect penis on a man is one of the most well known and proven techniques of contraceptives. Today there are even female condoms that may be inserted.

An assortment of chemicals like Nonoxynol-9 is available as a gel or through sponge swabs that reduce the effectiveness of sperm often by terminating them on entry into the vagina. This form of contraception too has been shown to be very effective.

Surgery may be adopted by tying off the vasa deferentia that prevents sperm from leaving the testes. Also a procedure called Tubal ligation may be performed on women where the fallopian tubes are pinched tight to prevent the egg from entering the uterus.

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