Pregnancy & Your Sexual Health

The first part of this website explores the choices that you have if you find out that you are pregnant. The second part looks at the help and support that is available if you decide to continue with your pregnancy. The website won’t be able to answer every question that you have but it should point you to the right place where you can find the information that you need. The website has been written with help from young mums, young women and a number of professionals.

All the organisations listed on this website offer a confidential service to young people even if you are under 16. This means that they will not tell your family, school, doctor, work or friends that you have visited or phoned them. They may sometimes suggest that they can help you more by sharing information about you to another service. But they will only do this if you give them permission to do so. You can say no. 

However, they may not keep your information confidential if by doing so, it could seriously put your health and wellbeing or that of someone else’s in danger. The organisation will usually discuss this with you first and tell you who they will contact and why.

Emergency Contraception
If you have recently had unprotected sex (condom split, missed a pill or not used any contraception) and you are worried you are at risk of pregnancy you can get FREE Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) from any pharmacy displaying the EHC logo or listed on www.youngpeoplefriendly.co.uk/emergency-contraception or call Worth Talking About on 0800 28 29 30.

You need to take EHC within 72 hours (3days) of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy and the sooner it is taken the more effective it is.

If you have had unprotected sex within the last 5 days you can still go to a specially trained doctor to have an IUD fitted to prevent pregnancy. Click here to find your nearest contraception clinic for IUD.