Female, straight.

I've been on the pill for six months now, and at the end of the month there's different colored pills to mark your period, and i was wondering if you have a higher chance of getting pregnant on those days then you do on the others? I get so confused on how that works..

The last week/row of pills in a 28-day birth control pack are just placebos. You don’t even have to take them. They do not have hormones in them, which is why you menstruate during that week. You are not more fertile or less protected during this week either.

They only way you can have a higher chance of becoming pregnant while on the pill is if you don’t take it at the same time everyday. Manufacturers actually put in the last week of placebo pills to keep women in the routine of popping the birth control continuously.

Read more on how the pill and its hormones work here.