Taking birth control pills every day because I don't know I'm pregnant, what to do?

There is no evidence that daily oral contraceptives cause birth defects. Pregnant women who take birth control pills every day give birth to babies who are still developing and healthy as usual.

1. Why take birth control pills every day but still get pregnant?


Daily contraceptive pills are female hormones, blister form usually has 28 pills or 21 pills, used for a month. The contraceptive effectiveness of the daily oral contraceptive pill can be as high as 99.7% in women who take the pill fully and have regular menstrual cycles.
Details of fetal development week by week, every parent should learn:
However, in some cases, contraception can still fail due to some of the following reasons:
Missing a few daily oral contraceptives and not taking the additional measures as directed: regular birth control pills A day can only maintain hormone levels in the body for 24 hours, so if you forget to take even 1 pill, you can get pregnant. Therefore, if unfortunately forgot to take the pill, women need to calmly handle it according to the instructions for taking the supplement to ensure the safest contraception. Due to changes in circadian rhythms, stress, irregular activities... make the menstrual cycle change, longer or shorter than usual: Contraception due to causes is less common, but still possible.

2. Does taking birth control pills still have any effect?

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For the daily oral contraceptive pill pack, if the birth control fails due to many reasons, women can still rest assured to maintain the pregnancy because there is no evidence that the daily contraceptive pill causes malformations to the fetus, The baby can still grow and be born normally.
If you are pregnant and your condition is fine, you can keep the pregnancy. You should immediately stop taking the pill when you know you are pregnant. The most important thing is that women need antenatal check-ups, complete diagnostic tests, screening under the guidance of specialist doctors to ensure a healthy fetus.
In particular, there are some women who, due to having sex on the right day, forgot their daily birth control pills, and then because they were too scared, they took more emergency contraceptive pills. At that time, if unfortunately pregnant, the safety of the fetus depends on the medicine that the woman has taken:
Levonorgestrel-containing emergency contraception: if contraception fails, the pregnancy is still relatively safe. Mifepriston-containing emergency contraceptives: Potentially affected fetus. At this time, women need to see a specialist for further examination and advice. To be effective, oral contraceptives need to be taken regularly, preferably at the same time each day. If you forget to take a medicine, take it and take extra care according to the instructions that come with each medicine. The best supplement is condoms.
To avoid forgetting the medicine, women can keep the medicine in a visible place in the bedroom. In addition, it is possible to consider supportive contraceptive methods that do not need to be memorized, such as the contraceptive implant, the IUD, etc.
The first 3 months are the most sensitive time during pregnancy, especially especially for women who used oral contraceptives every day when they became pregnant. In order for mother and baby to be healthy, it is important to note:
Understand early signs of pregnancy, pregnancy poisoning, bleeding during pregnancy. Timely, correct and sufficient first prenatal check-up, avoiding too early/too late. Fetal malformation screening at 12 weeks detects dangerous fetal malformations that can be intervened early. Distinguish between normal vaginal bleeding and pathological vaginal bleeding for timely intervention to maintain pregnancy. Screening for thyroid disease in the first 3 months of pregnancy avoids dangerous risks before and during delivery. Vinmec currently has many maternity packages (12-27-36 weeks), in which the 12-week maternity package helps monitor the health of mother and baby right from the beginning of pregnancy, early detection and timely intervention of health issues. In addition to the usual services, the maternity monitoring program from 12 weeks has special services that other maternity packages do not have such as: Double Test or Triple Test to screen for fetal malformations; Quantitative angiogenesis factor test for preeclampsia; thyroid screening test; Rubella test; testing for parasites transmitted from mother to child seriously affects the baby's brain and physical development after birth..

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