Are condoms not your favorite choice of birth control? Use condoms - video powered by Metacafe If not, check out the NuvaRing. Once a month, you insert a little flexible contraceptive ring inside you. It releases a low dose of hormones for 3 weeks to prevent you from getting pregnant. After 3 weeks, you remove the ring, which brings on your period. After 7 days, you insert a new ring for Read more

The commercial for Seasonale, a birth control pill, raves about getting only 4 periods a year. So what's the deal? Is that safe? Birth control pills can either be monophasic, where you get the same amount of hormones each day, or triphasic, where you get a different amount of hormones over 3 weeks. Seasonale and other monophasic pills allow you to take them in any sequence you want. Each pill Read more