If you had an intercourse and suspect that you are pregnant then there are ways to know the actual situation by a Pregnancy Test. A Pregnancy Test checks for a special hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), in the urine or the blood. Its presence in the urine or blood indicates that the woman is pregnant. The hormone is also called the pregnancy hormone.

There are two types of pregnancy test, out of which one tests the blood and the other checks the urine for the pregnancy hormone. If you want to check it at home you can do a urine test at home. But if you want to have your blood tested then you have to visit the doctor.

These days’ women do the Test at home as they are inexpensive, private and easy to use. Urine tests tell you in about 2 weeks after ovulation if you are pregnant. While some urine claims that they can tell about the pregnancy just in a day if you are pregnant as early as one day after the missed period.

The Home pregnancy test can be accurate if they are used properly. If the kits are used according to the directions and if the expiry date is checked they turn out to be accurate. You should also know how to use them and when to you use them.

Birth control as we all know is a method to prevent pregnancy. It helps you to decide when to have a child. There are different forms of birth controls. Each has its own pros and cons. It is necessary to know about all the methods that prevent you from being pregnant and at the same time giving you protection. These methods are used before you have sex. But when you have sex and come to know that you are pregnant then Emergency Pills can help you prevent pregnancy even after the sexual intercourse. They help you when an alternative birth control method fails to prevent pregnancy.

Pregnancy can be prevented even after the intercourse by taking the Emergency Contraceptives pills (EC). These pills give the body a short high, bursts of synthetic that disrupts hormone patterns needed for pregnancy. EC is used within 120 hours after the intercourse and is most effective within 24 hours. This is not an abortion pill. It does not let your pregnancy go away if you are already pregnant.

The pill is also known as the “Morning After” pill or as post-coital contraception, the emergency pill works within three days of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy. The levels of progestin are higher than other birth control pills in Emergency Pills.
Although the Emergency pills prevent pregnancy up to 75% they do not protect against the reproductive tract infection and HIV/AIDS. The emergency pill is not effective if it is taken more than three days. The sooner it is taken the more effective it is.

Estrogen- containing EC is safe for women but the hormones can increase the risk for developing blood clots. Emergency Contraceptives reduce the likelihood of becoming pregnant but do not protect against sexually transmitted diseases.

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The funny thing about men when it comes to telling if a woman is attracted to a man or not is it is relatively easy to see unless you are the man she is attracted to.

When a woman is attracted to a man there are usually three unconscious displays of affection that she uses to create or maintain attraction.

They usually follow a certain sequence with each step taking the attraction further and further along.

Unfortunately for men if you miss just one step (usually the first or last) your chances of killing whatever attraction was developing is greatly increased.

Have no fear though as I have broken down all three steps for you below;

Step 1: Eye Contact- Essentially when you meet or see a woman and make eye contact, she will either break eye contact and not return your gaze (little to no interest) or maintain and keep eye contact (high interest).

If you see her eyes looking at yours recognize this as your opportunity to open up the conversation not to gather your confidence.

Step 2: Preening- If you notice her playing with or touching her hair in any kind of way or checking her makeup or clothes then there is a very good chance you are at the second step

Step 3: Getting Closer- Perhaps the most difficult step for men to pass mainly because it involves the most risk and effort on his part. Yet a man who decides to linger around step 2 instead of moving on to step 3 is going to fail more often than not with women who otherwise would have been attracted to him.

In the end going through the 3 steps of attraction using body language is quite simple.

If you don’t hesitate climbing up the steps you really don’t give women a chance to not not be attracted to you.

Make eye contact, look for the sign, and then make your move and you will discover yourself having a great amount of success with women.

Teddy Shabba is a Dating Coach for Men and creator of

Here’s some unusual relationship advice you can use to re-ignite the romance in your partnership, save your marriage from the rocky road to ruin, or create something super special from the humdrum day-to-day routine of ‘Mr & Mrs’.

1. The Thankful Art
If you feel your relationship is unfulfilling and leaves you a tad empty or downright hollow, the simple cure is to remember what you seek. You want to be full to overflowing with Love. So stop your grumbling, throw away that list of complaints about your partner and instead cultivate the grateful heart.
Wake up and think of 10 things you love (or could love) about your partner and that you are grateful for (or could be!).
Through the day, take the opportunity to thank your partner for any little things that he or she does (don’t forget to appreciate the big things they say or do too!). Say, “Thank you sweetheart, I really appreciate… (whatever they did or said)” and express your gratitude and feel it from your heart.
Go to bed counting your blessings. It may sound trite but try it and you will be amazed at its effects on how you feel. Gratefulness will give your heart a ‘great fullness’ of Love and Joy.

2. Practice the Tao of Love
Taoists believe in the flow and interplay of opposite forces. Their chief aim is to become one all-inclusive consciousness able to go with the flow, completely free of all resistance. If you work with the paradigm that Life is a mirror, then all thing things that you dislike in your partner are simply reflections of those aspects of your deeper self that you have not yet learned to love and accept. Let go and become resistance-less. When you dislike a trait in another, for example ‘being annoying’, turn your focus within and say, “I love and accept myself even when I am being annoying. I love and accept that part of myself that feels like it needs to be annoying and attention-seeking.” And imagine loving and hugging that needy part of yourself until it is no longer a sticking point for you. As you do this more and more, you will cease to experience that trait in your relationships with others. Or it simply will not bother you any more. You will have risen in love above it.

3. The Divinity Game
Play with the following ideas…. What if you weren’t just an all-too-fallible human being? What if you were actually a ’spiritual being having a human experience’? What if you (the eternal consciousness You behind all the facade of personality and experience) are in fact God? And what if everything and everyone all around you is that omnipresent God too? How would you treat your partner differently if you thought they were actually God — in disguise?
Bhakti Yoga practitioners act as if everything they do or say is in loving service of God. They treat others as if they are God. Imagine that! If you play the Divinity Game, you’ll find it’s an extraordinary way to transform all your relationships. Remember, playing this game, you are in relationship with God. How special are you!

Wonderful ways of Love
I’ve offered you 3 weird ways to greater love but you might want relationship advice that is more tangible and immediately useful. Love is so paramount to leading a fulfilling life that you simply must learn from the best. Fortunately the people who are the real experts in Love and Romance, the top 1% of long-term happy couples, have spilled their most precious insights in the super-self.com/50-secrets-of-blissful-relationships.html 50 Secrets to Blissful Relationships. Hey, you’ll be intrigued by their tried-tested-and-proven relationship advice. Using these secrets their partnerships flourish and thrive in love. Join them. You deserve Love too.

Copyright 2007 Anne Amore

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is over the moon and three steps sideways with delight at having this opportunity to share her relationship advice with YOU. “May you be blessed with extraordinary Love and Joy, now and forevermore. And so be it.”

This stage in our life tends to be a highly productive but quite turbulent time for resolving the key issues which matter to us, like immortality vs. mortality, or nurturing vs. aggression. It is a time to re-examine realities while coping with the ongoing struggle to define and accept one’s true self. Even at this stage, there is still questioning of the dream, whether or not it was achieved, but with an increasingly mature sense of what is really important. There is a final recognition and acknowledgment of one’s own negative and positive impact on relationships, perhaps with the intention of re-routing one’s journey for deeper, more authentic connections.

There is also an active disengagement from group norms and/or cultural pressures in order to re-evaluate and restructure personal priorities. It is as if, without the need to impress anymore, this period gives a license to ignore the demands of others and to behave differently according to our own needs and aspirations. Professionals who have successfully reached this staging post tend to become counselor types to colleagues, ready to take on responsibility for developing others in their organization, which in turn benefits their own growth. Counselors at this stage often chair committees or take on leadership roles in professional associations.

A consistent pattern of early adult life is a struggle to achieve a measure of success followed by a mid-life appraisal of one’s values and personal philosophy. This staging post is a time when the individual sets an agenda for the second half of his/her life – a transition which involves intense introspection. There are no gray areas in this part of your life. You are now either proud of who you are and what you have accomplished, or you are deeply frustrated and full of regret. Hence the high number of gloomy people around at this age! Many people find that what they thought was going to make them happy isn’t really doing the job. They might have enjoyed university and the first few years of accounting, but the thought of being an accountant until they die is not very fulfilling. Or they might have been a very successful insurance salesman, but the thought of selling insurance for another 20 years sounds more like torture than a career.

Loss of Parents

If we have not achieved our dreams by now we start to wonder why. If they are fulfilled we tend to look at what values we might have neglected in their pursuit and ask whether it was really worth it. Either way, we need reassurance now that we actually behaved correctly. This period of re-assessment includes recognition of the ongoing conflict between immortality and mortality. Being young heightens our sense of indestructibility; we have a sense of being ‘invincible’ and destined for immortality, being shielded from a sense of our own mortality up to the age of 40. In mid-life though, we become increasingly aware of death. We would have seen many people, not much older than ourselves, succumb to cancer and heart attacks as well as death in our own families.

The death of a parent is also a clear signal that we are now on our own and next on the list! A sobering thought, which reminds us of how short life really is. People going through this transition not only face a crisis of mortality, they also face a crisis of growing old. I lost both my parents not long ago within 18 months of each other and I felt simply bereft after having them there throughout my life, always dependable and supportive in the background. My first Christmas back in Jamaica after their deaths was a strange mixture of being alone, yet responsible for my younger sisters in a way I hadn’t felt before. However, the overriding feeling since their deaths has been one of liberation out of their overarching shadow, but also of fear: that I, or my older sister, would be next for the Grim Reaper, and it has been an uncomfortable and disturbing thought ever since.

ELAINE SIHERA (Ms Cyprah -www.ecademy.com/user/elainesihera and myspace.com/elaineone myspace.com/elaineone) is an expert author, public speaker, media contributor and lifestyle columnist. The first Black graduate of the OU and a post-graduate of Cambridge University. Elaine is a CONFIDENCE guru and a Personal Empowerment, Relationships and Diversity Consultant. Author of: 10 Easy Steps to Growing Older Disgracefully; 10 Easy Steps to Finding Your Ideal Soulmate!; Money, Sex & Compromise and Managing the Diversity Maze, among others (available on amazon.co.uk amazon.co.uk as well as her personal website). Also the founder of the British Diversity Awards and the Windrush Men and Women of the Year Achievement Awards. She describes herself as, “Fit, Fabulous, Over-fifty and Ready to Fly!”