RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD Flashcards
- Planned childbearing
- Prenatal care and support
- Parent education support
3 AREAS OF RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD
• Personal values
• Ability to choose a method correctly
• How the method will affect sexual enjoyment
• Financial factors
IMPORTANT THINGS TO CONSIDER IN CHOOSING CONTRACEPTIVES
• Status of couple’s relationship
• Prior experiences
• Future plans
IMPORTANT THINGS TO CONSIDER IN CHOOSING CONTRACEPTIVES
• Safe
• 100% effective
• Free of side effects
• Affordable
• Acceptable to the user and sexual partner
• Free of effects on future pregnancies
CHARACTERISTICS OF IDEAL CONTRACEPTIVES
• No chemical or foreign material being introduced into the body
• Safest way for the body
NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING
Abstain from sexual intercourse
The most effective way to protect against conception and prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STD)
Abstinence
• No chemical or foreign material being introduced into the body
• Safest way for the body
Natural Family Planning
Rely on detecting when the woman will be capable of impregnation (fertile) and using periods of abstinence or contraceptive use during that time
Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM)
- Calendar (Rhythm) Method
- Basal Body Temperature
- Cervical Mucus (Billings) Method
- Symptothermal Method
- Ovulation Awareness
- Lactation Amenorrhea Method (LAM)
- Coitus Interruptus
NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING
Requires a couple to abstain from coitus on the days of a menstrual cycle when the woman is most likely to conceive (3-4 days before until 3-4 days after ovulation)
Calendar (Rhythm) Method
• Woman should keep a diary of sex menstrual cycles
Calendar (Rhythm) Method
Basis is just before the day of ovulation, a woman’s BBT falls about half a degree. At the time of ovulation, her BBT rises a full degree because of the influence of progesterone.
Basal Body Temperature
Woman takes her temperature each AM immediately after waking, before she undertakes any activity
Basal Body Temperature
She refrains from sex for the next 3 days.
Basal Body Temperature
Predicting ovulation by using changes in cervical mucus. Before ovulation, the cervical mucus is thick and does not stretch when pulled between the thumb and finger (spinnbarkeit). Just before ovulation, mucus secretion increases
Cervical Mucus (Billings) Method
• With ovulation (peak day), cervical mucus becomes copious, thin, watery, and transparent; it feels slippery and stretches at least 1 inch before the strand breaks. All the days mucus is copious and the 3 days after the peal days are considered to be fertile days, or days the woman should abstain from sex to avoid conception
Cervical Mucus (Billings) Method
• Combines the cervical mucus and BBT methods
Symptothermal Method