Family Planning - 1
Family Planning - 1
Family Planning - 1
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
Advantages:
Disadvantage: