Thinking of having a baby?
This website provides useful advice: Contraception Choices website: Thinking of having a baby? (https://www.contraceptionchoices.org/did-you-know/thinking-having-baby).
Contraception
These leaflets are available to download from the Family Planning Association (FPA) website Resources section (www.fpa.org.uk/professionals/resources/):
- Your Guide to Contraception
- Your Guide to Contraceptive Choices – After a Baby
- Your Guide to LARC
- Your Guide to the Contraceptive Implant
- Your Guide to Contraceptive Injections
- Your Guide to the IUD
- Your Guide to the IUS
- Your Guide to the Combined Pill
- Your Guide to the Progestogen-only Pill
- Your Guide to the Contraceptive Patch
- Your Guide to the Contraceptive Vaginal Ring
- Your Guide to Condoms – External and Internal
- Your Guide to Diaphragms and Caps
- Your Guide to Male and Female Sterilisation
- Your Guide to Natural Family Planning
- Your Guide to Emergency Contraception
Patient information leaflets
- Contraceptive implant – after removal
- Contraceptive implant – after your fitting appointment
- Contraceptive implant – before removal
- Contraceptive implant – before your fitting appointment
- IUC – after your fitting appointment
- IUC – before your fitting appointment
Sexually transmitted infection (STI)
- Bacterial vaginosis
- Chancroid
- Chlamydia
- Epididymo-orchitis
- Gonorrhoea
- Genital herpes
- HIV testing
- HIV symptoms
- Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for men who have sex with men (MSM)
- Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV)
- Non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU)
- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
- Syphilis
- A guide for pregnant women who have a positive syphilis
blood test - Thrush
- Trichomonas Vaginalis
- Types of sexually transmitted infection (STI)
Menopause
Information films
Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust has produced an excellent series of information films, divided into six sets:
- General
- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
- Non STI Conditions
- Contraception
- HIV
- Pregnancy
Please see Hope House – understanding your sexual health – Information Films (www.hopehouse.nhs.uk/information-videos).
