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Involves the decisions couples or individuals make about when (and if) they should have children, how many children to have, and how long to wait between pregnancies.
Family Planning
Also consists of choices to prevent or achieve pregnancy and to control the timing and number
Family Planning
Has many ethical, physical, emotional, religious, and legal implications.
Family Planning
deliberate prevention of conception, using a method or device to avert fertilization of an ovum.
Contraception
The most effective way to protect against conception is to abstain from sexual intercourse
Abstinence
⦁ Requires that the couple refrain from intercourse on those days the woman most likely to conceive based on MC.
⦁ Rhythm method
Has a theoretical 0% failure rate and is also the most effective way to prevent STI’s.
Abstinence
⦁ Also known as the calendar
⦁ Rhythm method
⦁ This fertile period usually last from 3-4 days before until 3-4 days after ovulation.
⦁ Rhythm method.
⦁ Over the counter ovulation, detection kits the determine ovulation by measuring luteinizing hormone (LH) in the urine
Ovulation Awareness Method
⦁ During each menstrual cycle LH Awareness level surge, causing an ovum to be released from the ovary 24-36hrs later (Ovulation)
Ovulation Awareness Method
⦁ This method can be use to determine the mid cycle surge LH which can be detected in the urine as early as 12hrs after ovulation
Ovulation Awareness Method
⦁ One of the oldest known methods of contraception.
Coitus Interruptus
⦁ Involves withdrawal of the penis from the vagina during intercourse before ejaculation.
Coitus Interruptus
Also known as birth control pills or hormonal contraceptives.
Oral Contraceptives