Sexuality During Pregnancy: Desire, Intimacy, and Sexual Health
Sexuality during pregnancy includes changes in desire, intimacy, sexual activity, body image, comfort, relationships, and sexual health throughout pregnancy.
Sexuality during pregnancy includes changes in desire, intimacy, sexual activity, body image, comfort, relationships, and sexual health throughout pregnancy.
Sexual maturation is the biological process through which the body develops reproductive capacity and secondary sex characteristics, mainly during puberty.
Menstrual education provides accurate information about periods, menstrual cycles, products, symptoms, hygiene, puberty, fertility, and reproductive health.
Contraceptive literacy is the ability to understand and use reliable information about birth-control methods, effectiveness, side effects, STI protection, and pregnancy prevention.
Reproductive health literacy is the ability to find, understand, evaluate, and use reliable information about fertility, contraception, pregnancy, and reproductive healthcare.
Medically accurate sex education provides current, evidence-based information about sexual health, anatomy, contraception, STIs, reproduction, and related topics.
Mycoplasma genitalium is a bacterial STI that can cause urethritis, cervicitis, and pelvic inflammation and may be difficult to treat because of antibiotic resistance.
Pelvic inflammatory disease is an infection of the upper reproductive tract that can cause pelvic pain and may lead to infertility or ectopic pregnancy if untreated.
Medication abortion uses medicines, commonly mifepristone and misoprostol, to end an established pregnancy through cramping, bleeding, and uterine emptying.
Procedural abortion ends a pregnancy through a medical procedure, commonly using suction, with follow-up focused on recovery, safety, and reproductive choice.