Nothing quite brings your fertility front and center like a pregnancy. Whether a pregnancy ends in a baby or not, it causes big changes to your body. Hormonal changes, like an increase in estrogen and prolactin, can cause or are directly related to physical changes, such as breast and milk duct growth.
What do people who’ve just had a pregnancy, need to know about their birth control options afterwards?
To discuss this, we’re joined by two midwives: Imogen Raye Minton is a home birth midwife and co-founder of the Queer Feminist Midwifery Collective here in Berlin; and Yasmeen Bruckner is a certified nurse, midwife and women's nurse, health practitioner at the University of Washington Northwest Campus Midwives Clinic.
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"There is this like this thing, this idea, that everything should be back to normal by six weeks. And I really try to encourage people to think about how long it took them to grow a baby in their body and the incredible feat it is to birth a baby no matter how you birth your baby."
Further Reading
Who you gonna call? Mythbusters!
Risky business: Birth Control during COVID-19
Happy Birthday, birth control!
Reproductive choice & reproductive justice
The many sides of side effects
The ABC: Abortion & Birth Control
Hot or not? Birth control & sex drive
Coming Soon: Hormonal Season 2
A Sneak Peek at Season 2
We Are All Hormonal
How Food Affects PMS
How Pollutants Influence Our Hormones
Acne Isn’t Just For Teens
Hothouse Orchids and Dandelions
What Makes a Woman in Women’s Sports?
PMS Is Real. PMS Isn’t Real.
Grains of Salt: Hormone History in the Modern Age
Coming Soon: Hormonal
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