Health Center For Women

Family Planning and Birth Control

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Birth Control

Birth Control to Fit Your Lifestyle and Personal Needs

Family planning helps you decide when to have a baby, but it also means much more than deciding what birth control method to use. Family planning includes screening services that help find serious health problems, such as low blood iron, high blood pressure, and infections sooner.

So many advances have been made in birth control options. Our expert staff is up-to-date on the latest birth control methods, options and choices. Today, birth control is all about choices…you can choose the reproductive method that best fits your lifestyle and your needs.

When you come to The Health Center for Women at Northland Family Planning for birth control and family planning, we will review all of your options. Many of the birth control methods we prescribe are available through our on-site prescription dispensing service, often at prices that are much lower than at retail pharmacies.

Northland Family Planning Clinic offers the following birth control methods:

Birth Control pills

  • Low cost birth control pills at Northland’s on-site prescription dispensing service.
  • Taken daily will help prevent pregnancy.

Depo-Provera (birth control shot)

  • One shot every three months provides on-going pregnancy prevention.
  • Requires a short office visit for the injection (shot).

Diaphragms

  • Inserted vaginally only when you are going to have sex.
  • Fitted to your size.

Condoms and foam

  • Used by you and your partner every time you have sex.
  • Available for purchase at prices MUCH less than at the pharmacy.

The Patch and the NuvaRing

  • Pregnancy prevention for a month at a time.
  • After an examination, patients will receive a prescription.

IUD

  • Choices for 5 and 12 year pregnancy prevention inserted by our physician.

Emergency Contraceptive Treatment

  • Also called Plan B or the Morning After Pill.
  • Emergency measure only – must be taken within 72 hours after sex.

Call us. We’d love to have a conversation with you as you plan choices for your reproductive health.


RESOURCES

The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals has created a chart, Which-Contraceptive which offers easy-to-read and understand information on all contraception methods.

Educational and entertaining, this web site educates on Birth Control Methods and when to consider having sex: The Birds & Bees Project – Your Options

Plan First: Applications and more information: