Understanding how your body works can help you and your partner with family planning, to either plan a pregnancy or to avoid one.

There are many different methods of contraception, like emergency contraception, the pill, or condoms, which suit people at different times of their lives. They all work in different ways, by preventing or affecting ovulation, stopping fertilisation by preventing the sperm from meeting the egg, or by identifying the fertile and infertile times of the menstrual cycle. If you have a missed period, pregnancy testing should be done, and if this is an unplanned pregnancy, the proper termination or abortion advice can be found at fpa or  a Brook clinic or in an private abortion clinic.