IUD

The 41-year-old day care worker was concerned because she wasn’t getting her menstrual period with her IUD.

Briones decided to keep the device after learning it’s safe and normal not to have periods while using an IUD.

But they’re also expensive — devices can cost more than $1,000 without insurance — and inserting an IUD can be painful.

She told the staff there that she doesn’t want more kids but was worried about the IUD.

The same people perpetuate the false claim that hormonal contraception, from the birth control pill to the IUD, works by "killing" fertilized eggs.