Contents:
- Medical Video: What Actually Happens When You Have An Abortion?
- When can you start making love again after an abortion?
- Look at this before returning to sex after an abortion
- 1. Make sure your health condition has recovered
- 2. Use the right contraception
- 3. You do not need to wait long to be able to use contraception
Medical Video: What Actually Happens When You Have An Abortion?
You who have had a medical abortion certainly need time to restore the physical and psychological condition as before. It is undeniable that abortion makes you feel bad, sad, and guilty. Sex is believed to be able to provide calm and restore your feelings, but what if it is done after an abortion? What should be considered before having sex after an abortion? Continue reading the following reviews.
When can you start making love again after an abortion?
Abortion is an act of ending a period of pregnancy prematurely. In Indonesia alone, abortion is only legalized with the approval of doctors based on medical reasons that can endanger the health of the mother or there are problems with the fetus.
Abortion performed with the right procedure is certainly safer and has fewer complications. However, not a few women experience some side effects after abortion, including abdominal cramps, bleeding, nausea, vomiting, breast pain, and fatigue. This reason makes women afraid to return to having sex after an abortion.
Basically, you and your partner may return to have sex after an abortion or in a couch. Only, give a gap of about 2 to 3 weeks from the beginning of the recovery effort to reduce the risk of infection.
The reason is, anything that is inserted into a woman's vagina, including penile penetration during intercourse, can make microorganisms enter the vagina and infect the uterus. Therefore, you are not encouraged to rush to have sex after an abortion, both with penetration and masturbation.
To determine if you are ready to have sex after an abortion, see a doctor immediately. The doctor will perform a pelvic exam using a special instrument (speculum) to see how far your recovery process is from the effects of abortion.
If the doctor has stated that you are in a healthy and recovering condition, that means you can return to having sex with your partner.
Look at this before returning to sex after an abortion
1. Make sure your health condition has recovered
Before deciding to return to sex after an abortion, make sure that your body is ready and fully recovered physically and mentally.
Both after medical and surgical abortion, you may experience bleeding and some discomforts such as abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and fatigue. This will certainly make you more stressful so that sex feels unsatisfactory.
As explained earlier, the doctor recommends that you take full rest for 2 to 3 weeks to restore physical and psychological conditions.
After the doctor states you are healthy and recovered, then you and your partner may return to sexual intercourse. If you suddenly experience sharp pain in the abdomen during sex after an abortion, contact your doctor immediately for further treatment.
2. Use the right contraception
If you decide to return to sex after an abortion, but do not want a pregnancy, then consult your doctor to get the best contraceptive advice for you.
Reporting from Women 's Health, according to Leah Millheiser, M.D., director of Stanford University Medical School, said that the day you have an abortion is the first day of your menstrual cycle. This means that you will experience a fertile period and the chance to get pregnant again during sex after an abortion.
Therefore, consider with your doctor what type of contraception is suitable for your condition. One option is condoms, contraceptives that can help reduce post-abortion infections while preventing pregnancy.
3. You do not need to wait long to be able to use contraception
The good news is that your body's condition after abortion makes it possible to receive any type of contraception, either with birth control pills, IUDs, or other contraceptives.
So, you don't need to wait a long time to be able to use contraception. In fact, you can ask your doctor to attach an IUD at the same time as a medical abortion procedure.
If you want to really postpone pregnancy after an abortion, it's good to use an IUD that is more effective in preventing pregnancy. However, still consult with your doctor to get the right contraception for you.
