Episode 66 - Contraceptive Perspective

Get A Room Podcast

On this episode we briefly discuss Ivy’s clinic adventures, before diving into birth control. We talk about 12 different forms of birth control and how they work, and how well they work. We also talk about which ones we’ve had personal experience with. Obviously this episode gets into some things that may be offensive to some listeners, so listener discretion is advised.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• (1:00) We had a long week due to our daughter going to the hospital every single day.
• (2:00) We explain some of the things Ivy had to do over the last week and some of the bittersweet results of the tests.
• (7:00) We talk about the one pretty shocking thing that came from all the tests.
• (12:40) This week we talk about some of the birth control options available.
• (13:15) IUD (inter uterine device), which is 99% effective. It can stay in place between 3 and 10 years. We actually got pregnant while on this form of birth control.
• (16:15) Scott is actually an IUD baby too!
• (17:20) Implant, which is also 99% effective and stays in place for up to 3 years.
• (19:00) Depo shot, which is 99% effective and lasts for 3 months.
• (20:15) Vaginal ring, which is 99% effective and is inserted in the vagina for 3 weeks out of the month.
• (20:55) Patch, which is 99% effective, and must be changed every week.
• (21:15) The pill, which is 99% effective, must be taken at the same time every day. We have experience with this one as well. It messed with Rochelle’s hormones, and we ended up pregnant because we couldn’t get the prescription filled.
• (24:15) Condoms, which are 98% effective, used each time you have sex.
• (25:15) Female condoms are 95% effective and works similarly to the regular condom.
• (26:10) Emergency contraception is either a pill or a copper IUD which prevents ovulation. It is not the same thing as an abortion. The effectiveness varies.
• (27:00) Spermicide is 82% effective, and is placed into the vagina immediately prior to sex.
• (27:35) Fertility awareness/family planning or the rhythm method is 76% effective and involves women tracking their cycle and figuring out the least and most likely times they would get pregnant.
• (28:00) The pull out method, which is only 73% effective and involves pulling the penis out of the vagina before ejaculation.
• (31:45) Rochelle goes on a mini rant about why birth control involves so much jumping through hoops for women and why “that shit’s crazy, man.”