Would Birth Control During Pregnancy Harm The Infant?
Yes when you become pregnant you’re suppose to discontinue using birth control pills. You can use other methods of protection if you’re trying to prevent STD’s. Using the pill while pregnant have been known to cause serious birth defects.
While no one would intentionally take oral contraceptives if they knew they were pregnant, many women each year inadvertently take pills being unaware they are already pregnant. In the U.S. and Europe, in approximately 2-5% of all pregnancies mothers have a history of having taken birth control pills without realizing they were pregnant. Many years ago, with higher dose contraceptive pills, there were concerns that the hormones in pills could produce genital changes in both male and female babies. Subsequent studies have failed to confirm this. At the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, the Motherisk program which tracks various birth defects, there is a good article on oral contraceptives and their effect on pregnancy. This article suggests that there is no need to be concerned about the pills causing birth defects any more than the background rate of birth defects that normally occurs.
Potentially it could harm the baby, but only if the woman continued taking them throughout the entire pregnancy. Many women are on the pill and find themselves pregnant, and as long as you stop taking it as soon as you know you’re pregnant, odds are definitely in your favor that baby will be fine.
No! I was just told to stop as soon as you find out.
As for the responder that said she can’t understand how someone doesn’t know…It’s entirely possible!
I missed my period so I took a preg. test and it was neg. So I took one a few weeks later…NEG! I was told it was pretty accurate at that time, so I didn’t think anything of it except I hope my period starts soon so I can TTC again! Next thing I know three months have passed since my last period and that’s the longest it’s ever happened before! I was almost sure I wasn’t pregnant due to the negative preg. tests and I never did have a period so I was just waiting for it!
Finally I told my boyfriend to pick me up another preg. test on his way home from work just to make sure. He also bought me a bottle of peppermint schnapps. =] Mmm!
As soon as I laid my hands on the preg. test I had to pee so I went to the upstairs bathroom immediately and peed on teh stick! BFP! I thought I was like 15 weeks right then but when we got the ultrasound it was showed to be 11 weeks. I guess I didn’t ovulate in January because I didn’t have my period in Feb. either, but I still ovulated in Feb. when I would have if my period had come! WEIRD!
AND I took birth control for almost a month to try to get my period going when I guess I was already pregnant but I didn’t know!
11 weeks exactly is when I found out! Unfortunately then I had to give my peppermint schnapps to my boyfriend…=P
if you want to go away from STD’s you can use a mens protection..but if you are a woman taking BC pills may harm the baby…the first option is ok if you are preg but secoond is unnecessary if your preg.i dont want to be rude..
Well the baby isn’t an infant until he/she is born, but birth control could hurt the fetus. That’s why they suggest you quit taking it as soon as you find out you’re pregnant.
why would you want to use birth control while pregnant?
Normally women don’t ovulate anyway during pregnancy…
that is just not …cool
It shouldnt, I know people that took it the whole time not knowing they were pregnant ((never understood how they didnt know)).
i took it with my first for the first 3 months i didnt know i was pregnant and she came out healthy
why would you want to take birth control if you are already pregnant?
yes it can give the baby serious birth defects if you even think u are prego stop taking it right away and contact a doc
no but stop taking it when you realize you are.. you dont need it…
um i think so!!!!!