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FAMILY PLANNING

After completion of this lesson, you


are expected to:
1.Define key terms
2.Gain knowledge and
understanding of reproductive life
planning/Family Planning
3.Describe common methods of
family planning and the
advantages, disadvantages, and
risks associated with each.
FAMILY PLANNING
The conscious process
by which a couple
decides on the number
and spacing of children
and the timing of
births

• Avoiding unwanted pregnancies


OBJECTIVES OF • Regulating intervals between pregnancies
FAMILY PLANNING • Deciding on the number of children in the family
• Preventing pregnancy for women with serious illness
CONTRACEPTION
voluntary prevention of pregnancy

the deliberate use of artificial methods or other techniques to prevent


pregnancy

Important considerations:
• Personal values
• Ability to use a method correctly
• If the method will affect sexual enjoyment
• Financial factors
• Prior experiences with contraception
• Future plans
Characteristics Of An
Ideal Contraceptive Method

100 %
Safe
effective
Free of Convenient to use
undesirable and Easily
side effects obtainable
NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING METHOD
Methods that involves no introduction of chemical or foreign material
into the body or sustaining from sexual intercourse during a fertile period.
2. LACTATIONAL AMENORRHEA METHOD(LAM)
Safe birth control method if:
relies on
• Infant is <6 months old
exclusive
• Infant is Breastfed every 4 hours at day and every 6
breast hours at night
feeding. • No supplementary feedings
• Menstruation has not returned

Effective while
Advantage: infant is totally
breastfeed
3. COITUS INTERRUPTUS (WITHDRAWAL)
requires withdrawal
of the penis from
the vagina before
ejaculation
Advantages: • inexpensive
• medically safe

• unreliable
• interrupts sexual
Disadvantages: excitation or plateau
• diminishes satisfaction
4. CERVICAL MUCUS METHOD (BILLING’S METHOD)
uses the appearance, characteristics, and amount of cervical mucus to
identity ovulation

Preovulatory and postovulatory periods: thick,does not stretch thereby


safe

Ovulation: copious,thin,watery and transparent,slippery(like eggwhite)


and stretches at least 1 inch before the strand breaks(spinnbarkeit)

Advantages:

• Inexpensive; no side effects

Disadvantage:

• not as effective as other methods

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