Dr Jacqueline Coombe

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815 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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Steph & Laura · An explainer on different contraception - with Dr Jacqueline Coombe · 16 Jun 2026 podcast

So the pill, and I've got it in my notes so I didn't get this wrong, so the pill under perfect use conditions is more than 99% effective.

Typical use conditions, 93% effective.

So that means in a year of use, seven women will get pregnant while using it.

And that doesn't mean that they stuffed it up.

It might mean they took it and then they got gastro and they had diarrhea or they were vomiting.

You know, there's all sorts of reasons why.

Maybe you forgot to take it on time.

You know, stuff happens, life happens and you end up pregnant.

So yes, that's usually how that happens, how people get pregnant on the pill.

It's so interesting.

I think it's also something to keep in mind and something we need to think about with contraception is...

how you get pregnant and how that works so something that I didn't know before I started doing research in this area was how long sperm can live in the body for like six days I know I know which is wild right wild so like stuff can happen and you not realize it happened and there's sperm living in you and it's like it's complicated stuff happens yep it's yeah

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

I think the unintended pregnancy rates in Australia are around 50% too.

So it's like half of women have experienced a pregnancy that was unintended.

And that doesn't mean unwanted.

It just means that that pregnancy was

Bit of a surprise.

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