Birth control after baby

SOON AFTER GIVING BIRTH, sex may either be a swearword in your household, or you may be aching for some intimacy once your body heals. Either way, sex will be on the cards again at some point, so unless you want back-to-back pregnancies, now might be a good time to consider your best contraception options.

According to Dr Elna Rudolph – medical doctor, sexologist and clinical head of the My Sexual Health Clinic () in Johannesburg – it’s best to consider postpartum birth control before baby arrives. Ideally, you want to be prepared as soon as you’re ready to have sex again. “It’s unlikely that you’ll fall pregnant two weeks after having a baby – especially as doctors advise you not to have sex before the six-week mark – but stranger