There are widespread misconceptions about the use of oral contraceptives. Some women falsely believed that use of oral contraceptives can affect fertility hence posing trouble in getting pregnant.

The recent study carried out by the researchers from Bayer Schering Pharma and ZEG-Centre for Epidemiology and Health Research in Berlin gave scientific data to prove that use of oral contraceptives have no effect on fertility.  

Study indicated that neither the type of hormones used in the pill nor the length of time the pill is taken affect chances of pregnancy.

German research team analyzed data collected from 60,000 European women for five years. During study, 2064 women said that they stopped using the pill because they wanted to become pregnant.

Further data analysis revealed that 21 per cent women became pregnant after one cycle after stopping contraceptive use. The rate of pregnancy increased to 45.7 percent after three cycles. Within one year or 13 cycles rate of pregnancy was 79.4 percent.

Findings indicated that overall success rate was 88.3 per cent as one in five women didn’t get pregnant in the first 12 months. 45 percent women got pregnant in the second year of stopping the pill.