Family Planning

Family planning and birth control are an essential part of many people’s lives.

MUSC Women’s Health is pleased to offer a comprehensive family planning program with a team of complex family planning specialists. The program, in operation for years, has expanded the medical and support teams to better serve patients and families.

Family planning services include:

• Contraceptive care, including for patients with complex medical problems
• Emergency contraception, including prescriptions or IUD insertion
• IUD insertion and removal including misplaced IUDs
• Implanon insertion and removal
• Tubal sterilization
• Management of miscarriage and abnormal pregnancy, including ectopic pregnancy
• Consultation for cesarean scar pregnancy

Helpful Resources:

• Bedsider.org (a free birth control support network):
• I’d like to know a lot more about birth control in general.
• How do birth control methods compare to each other?
• What if my birth control failed?
• Where can I obtain emergency contraception?
• I’d like to set up free reminders to take my birth control.
• For questions about birth control and family planning:
• To schedule an appointment, please call 843-792-5300.