As has always been the case, periods will vary from woman to woman. The same goes for the first period following a miscarriage. Some women will have a lighter period; some will experience a heavier than normal period and others may have a period that is similar to their past periods.

Women who use the technique, known as cervical mucus monitoring, were more than twice as likely to conceive than women who did not track their cervical mucus.

If it is very important that you know if and when an egg is released, a urine test kit, called an ovulation predictor kit, works better. BBT also is not a reliable way to prevent pregnancy.

Chlamydia and gonorrhea are important preventable causes of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and infertility.

Emergency contraception prevents pregnancy after sex, which is why it is sometimes called 'the morning after pill', 'the day after pill', or 'morning after contraception'.

The IUD is the only LARC method that doesn’t have hormones in it. Your fertility returns to normal as soon as the IUD is removed.