If you have unprotected sex after your baby is three weeks old you can use emergency contraception.
IUD (Copper Coil)
- Most effective method - prevents over 99% of pregnancies
- Can be inserted from four weeks after your baby is born and up to five days after unprotected sex.
Emergency Contraceptive Pill (Levonelle) ‘morning after pill’
- Can be taken up to 120 hours (five days) of having unprotected sex, but the sooner you take it, the more likely it is to work
Ullipristal Acetate (ellaOne)
- Another form of morning-after pill
- Can also be used up to 120 hours (five days) after unprotected sex
- May be more effective than Levonelle
- Breastfeeding not recommended for 36 hours after taking ellaOne