Fertility and Family Planning Flashcards
What percentage of people are interested in FABMs to avoid pregnancy?
22%-61%
What percentage of people are interested in FABMs to achieve pregnancy?
37-50%
What are the key components of fertility?
Sperm, Ovum, Fertile cervical fluid
What is the average time in a month that a woman is fertile?
3-6 days
What is the normal range of cycle length?
21-35
T/F: A women’s cervical fluid is thin, watery, and slippery prior to ovulation
True
What happens to a woman’s body temperature after ovulation?
Increases a long with progesterone
Describe Type E mucus
Allows for sperm penetration and is increased with estrogen- at the beginning of the cycle
Describe Type G mucus
Sperm penetration is blocked: Increased with progesterone increase: at the end of the cycle after ovulation
What is the external finding following the follicle secreting estrogen?
Clear Stretchy Lubricative cervical mucus
What is the external sign following the burst of the follicle- ovulation?
The last day of stretchy clear, moist cervical mucus: PEAK DAY
What is the external sign after the corpus luteum starts secreting progesterone?
Thicker cervical mucus along with a rise in BBT
What is the external sign as the corpus luteum atrophies and the progesterone drops?
Menstruation
What are the 5 types of FABMs?
Cervical fluid methods
Sympto-thermal methods
Sympto-hormonal methods
Standard days methods
Lactational amenorrhea method
What are the three main types of cervical fluid methods? What are the key characteristics?
Billings ovulation method
Creighton model
Two day
Characteristics: Cervical secretions, fertile vs infertile, achieve or avoid pregnancy
In the Billings ovulation method, the woman senses the ________ _______ at the vulva
cervical fluid
Describe the Billings method fertility window
The start of the fertility window is at the first change of cervical fluid after the dry period following bleeding, and continues into the next dry period INCLUDING the three dry days
What are the Creighton model’s systemic observations? (SOFT)
Sensation
Observation
Finger Testing
Describe the two day method
So if there are secretions that day then she can get pregnant
If there were no secretions on day one but there are on day 2, then she can get prepgnant
If there are not any secretions for two days then she is not likely to get pregnant so intercourse is probably okay
What is the sympto-thermal method?
Observes the cervical fluid and the calendar as the beginning
Body temp and fluid as the end of the cycle
What is the sympto-hormonal method?
Monitors electronic hormones and biomarkers:
Estrogen and LH
Cervical fluid
Optimal body temp
Describe the Marquette Method
Records mucus and estrogen levels on a scale from low, high, and peak
What is a low recording for fertility with the Marquette method?
Moist, thick, sticky, and white
What is the high indication of fertility with the Marquette method?
Thin, stretchy, and wet fluid
