There is no religious doctrine which morally objects to the Ovulation Method as a means to avoid pregnancy. Also, while many in developing countries object to foreign attempts to control population growth through contraceptive and surgical intervention, international teachers of the Ovulation Method find a great deal of acceptance among these people. The ability to determine family size is given to the couple to make their own decisions. Menu No Need for Regular Cycles Older methods of natural family planning, including the rhythm method, could not account for cycle irregularities which every woman experiences. These methods would predict the infertile time of the cycle based on previous cycle history.
Any woman can experience an unusually short or long cycle at any time.
Sometimes cycling can stop altogether due to stress or illness or, more naturally, during a time of breastfeeding. It is also very common for cycles to become very irregular as a woman approaches menopause. Older natural methods could not help in these situations. The Ovulation Method, on the other hand, identifies fertility and infertility day by day on the basis of the observations for the presence or absence of the mucus discharge. There is no guesswork or forecasting.