Reproductive Life Planning Flashcards
family planning
REPRODUCTIVE LIFE PLANNING
Includes all the decisions an individual or couple make about:
Whether and when to have children
✅How many children to have
✅How they are spaced
3 elements or responsibilities of family planning
- Responsibility of parents to themselves and to each other
- Responsibility to their present and future children
- Responsibility to their community and country
Purposes of Family Planning
✅improvement of health
✅promotion of human right to determine reproductive performance
✅relation of demographic change to economic development
give 7 Important things to consider when helping a couple choose a method that will be right for them include:
- Personal values
- Ability to use a method correctly
- How the method will affect sexual enjoyment
- Financial factors
- If a couple’s relationship is short term or long term.
- Prior experiences with contraception.
- Future plans.
An ideal contraceptive should be:
Safe
100% effective
Compatible with religious and cultural beliefs and personal preferences of both the user and sexual partner.
Free of side effects.
Convenient to use and easily obtainable
Affordable and needing few instructions for effective use.
Free of effects after discontinuation on future pregnancies.
give 4 types of contraceptives
- Natural Family planning
- Hormonal contraception
- barrier methods
- terminal methods
types of natural family planning
- abstinence
- calendar “rhythm” method
- basal body temperature method
- cervical mucous method
5 symptothermal method - lactation ammonrhea method
- coitus interruptus
periodic abstinence methods.
NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING
natural family planning involves?
no introduction of foreign material into the body nor sustaining from sexual intercourse during a fertile period.
degree of effectiveness? and what does it depend on?
25% to 85%, depending mainly on the couple’s ability to refrain from having sexual relations on fertile days.
involves detecting when a woman is fertile so she can use periods of abstinence during that time.
Fertility Awareness
what is fertility awareness?
involves detecting when a woman is fertile so she can use periods of abstinence during that time.
describe abstinence
refraining from sexual relations
failure rate of abstinence?
Has a theoretical 0% failure rate
most effective way to prevent STIs.
➜most effective method
abstinence
who finds it difficult to adhere? what would happened if they break their pledge?
adolescents, may find it difficult to adhere
break their pledge (about 50% do)= more vulnerable to STI’s and pregnancy
Requires a couple to abstain from coitus (sexual relations) on the days of a menstrual cycle when the woman is most likely to conceive or iis fertile
B.CALENDAR (“RHYTHM”) METHOD
how do you do calendar “rhythm” method
➜entails keeping a day-by-day record of your cycle for 6 consecutive months
➜noting the onset of bleeding as day 1 and the last day before your next menstrual bleeding as the final day of your cycle
➜6 month record will show you your longest and shortest cycles from which you can calculate your FERTILE days
First unsafe day: subtract 18 from the number of days in your shortest cycle Last unsafe day: subtract 11 from the number of days in your longest cycle
do not forget to count day one of menstrual bleeding (circle)
example:
shortest: 26
longest: 31
shortest: 26-18= day 8
Longest: 31- 11= day 20
Unsafe period: Day 8 to day 20 = avoid coitus or use contraceptive
describe basal body temp of a woman before and during ovulation
24 hours before ovulation: a woman’s basal body temperature (BBT), or the temperature of her body at rest, decreases about 0.5°F.
during ovulation causes an increase of 0.5 – 1 °F in basal body temperature
how to do BBT method?
taking the temperature every morning BEFORE the woman gets out of bed and recording it
why is their change in basal body temperature?
because of the influence of progesterone.
how many days will the rise in temperature last?
3 days
Billing’s method
CERVICAL MUCUS METHOD
what is the CERVICAL MUCUS METHOD based on?
changes that occurs on the cervical mucus during the menstrual cycle.
how to to do CERVICAL MUCUS METHOD
inserting the forefinger into the vagina first thing in the morning
qualities of cervical mucous as ovulation approaches
copious, clear, thin, less viscous, more liquid, slippery, stringy and becomes increasingly elastic and transparent
when is the unsafe period for CERVICAL MUCUS METHOD
as soon as changes begin and after 3 days later
property that makes the mucus feel slippery and stretches at least 1 inch before the strand breaks.
-cervical mucus is thin, watery and can be stretched into long strands
Spinnbarkeit test
why is there change in cervical mucuos?
High levels of estrogen: ovulation is about to occur
Combines the cervical mucus and BBT methods
SYMPTOTHERMAL METHOD