People who use birth control can generally be categorized into two different types. There are the ones that are using because they don’t want a child at the moment for a variety of reasons, and the ones that don’t want children at all. Permanent birth control options are available for the latter group of people, but the former group has a significantly wider range of methods to choose from. Among these methods would be the ever-popular use of the birth control pill, though this poses a mild problem should the women ever want to actually have children.
In essence, the pill works by altering hormone levels in the woman’s body to make it believe that the woman is already pregnant. This has the effect of interrupting the typical menstrual cycle and preventing the ovaries from releasing the egg cell, which in turn prevents conception. There are a few side effects that can be linked to these hormonal alterations, but in general, the consensus is that they work fine. However, what exactly happens to the body once a woman stops using birth control pills? Most women are aware of what the pill does and have some vague notion of how it works, but generally lack...