Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the time, I was a senior in high school in a small town in Alberta, Canada, and there was only one doctor at a nearby college ...

Finally, we have data to show that paracervical blocks can work.

Your chance of getting pregnant with an IUD is 0.1% to 0.2%. If you get pregnant with an IUD, it's usually because it got dislodged or was improperly inserted. Pregnancy with an IUD puts you at a ...

Getting pregnant with an IUD is exactly how things aren’t supposed to go. After all, if you decide to get an IUD, the entire point is to have an incredibly reliable form of contraception that allows ...

Gynecology nurse practitioner Stephanie Edwards-Latchu has performed over 450 intrauterine device insertions. Some women will barely notice when the device is placed, she said, but others report the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Carli removed her own intrauterine device while sitting in a warm bath, she was elated. IUD in hand, “I threw on a towel and ...

I’ve always hated going to the gynecologist. No offense to gynecologists, of course, but every time I would go, I’d have an incredible amount of anxiety. Because, point No. 2, I have an incredible ...

(I would actually encourage anyone interested in getting an IUD to read up on this history, if only to understand the differences between this early device and modern IUDs, and to better understand ...

Pop Quiz: The average IUD is about 3cm wide. How wide do you think a cervix is? Credit: Liudmila Chernetska/Getty Images The appeal of the IUD is undeniable: When you can get pregnant and don’t want ...

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week, revoking the constitutional right to have an abortion, Americans got busy. Folks nationwide poured money into abortion funds, stocked up on ...

Intrauterine devices are highly effective, but some women find insertion painful. Here’s how to prepare. By Catherine Pearson Ten percent of women in the United States between the ages of 15 and 49 ...