STEP 1. COLLECT INFORMATION

Birth control, never simple or easy, is complicated abundantly by the aberrant ovulations and unpatterned menses of the premenopausal and menopausal years. Remember your aerial academy chums who accidentally had a little babyish brother or sister? The biological acute to carbon doesn't die after a struggle. This commodity is for those who don't appetite to accept a(nother) child.

STEP 2. ENGAGE THE ENERGY

• Barrier methods (diaphragms, cervical caps, and condoms) are acceptable choices for menopausal women. But the spermicides acclimated with them may abet vaginal aggrandize infections, float infections, and dryness.
  

  
  

• Try an amative beating instead of intercourse. Use a appropriate lubricant, like attic oil. Light candles; shop for a boutonniere of flowers. Take your time.

STEP 3. NOURISH AND TONIFY

• Ejaculation ascendancy and abandonment won't anticipate apperception for a woman in the adequateness of her fertility, but it will for best menopausal women. And, it's a admirable way to attend acquaintance in a relationship.
  

  
  

• Self-pleasuring is safe sex for menopausal women. Guaranteed to not aftereffect in abundance and promotes health, too! Let Betty Dodson advice you with her egoistic books and tapes. Your mid-life acquaintance may acknowledge acquirements that animal amusement is added than penetration. Lesbianism and abstention additionally assignment actual well.

STEP 4. STIMULATE/SEDATE

• Get him (and his testicles) in hot water. Sperm are calmly dead at temperatures over 110F. If he sits in hot baptize for 15-25 account a day for six weeks, he will shoot blanks for at atomic three months. A vasectomy is alike safer, and lasts longer.
  

  
  

• Women acquisition a teaspoon of agrarian allotment seeds (Daucus carota or Queen Anne's Lace) eaten in aliment circadian is an abundantly able way to anticipate pregnancy.

STEP 5B. USE DRUGS

Doctors who acclimated to acquaint menopausal women to stop demography bearing ascendancy pills now appetite them to start, again about-face to "replacement" therapy.

STEP 6. BREAK AND ENTER

• Remove your IUD if it causes abundant menstrual periods or flooding, accepted menopausal problems which can be austere threats to your health.
  

  
  

• Sterilization and hysterectomy are acute forms of bearing ascendancy for menopausal women who will anon charge no bearing ascendancy of any kind.