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If you miss birth control pills during your withdrawl bleeding can you get pregnant?

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No: Generally a birth control pack contains 21 days of hormones and 7 days of non-hormone pills. The 7 non-hormone pills are just there to keep you in the habit of taking a pill every day.

Dr Honore and another doctor agreed

Answered 5/7/2016

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