Birth control stopping

How soon can you get pregnant after you stop
using birth control? It depends on what kind of
birth control you use. The barrier methods —
such as condoms, diaphragms, and spermicides
— work only as long as you use them; as soon as
you stop, you’re fertile. Hormone-based
medicines — including the Pill, Depo-Provera,
NuvaRing, and the birth control patch (for example,
Ortho-Evra) — take longer to get out of your system.
You may ovulate very shortly after stopping the Pill (weeks or days, even). Usually,
hormones from pills aren’t detectable several days after the last active Pill or the last
patch. On the other hand, it can take three months to one year to resume regular
ovulatory cycles after stopping Depo-Provera.

We know of no hard-and-fast rules about how long you should wait after stopping
birth control before you start trying to conceive. In fact, you can start
to try to conceive right away. If you’re Fertile Myrtle, you may get pregnant
on the first try. But keep in mind that if you haven’t resumed regular cycles,
you may not be ovulating each month, and it may be more difficult to time
your intercourse to achieve conception. (At least you can have a good time
trying!) If you get pregnant while your cycles are irregular, it also may be
harder to tell exactly what day you conceived and, therefore, to know your
due date.

If you use a non-hormone intrauterine device (IUD), you can get pregnant as
soon as you have it removed. With hormone containing intrauterine devices
or with sub-dermal implantable devices, fertility may take 3 to 12 months to
resume after removal. Rarely, a woman conceives with her IUD in place. If
this happens to you, your practitioner may choose to remove the device, if
possible, because getting pregnant with your IUD in place puts you at risk of
miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy that gets stuck in the fallopian
tube), or early delivery. Getting pregnant with an IUD in place more than likely
doesn’t put the baby at increased risk of birth defects.