Natural Birth Control Made Simple
Edition: Seventh edition edition
Publisher: Hunter House
Published: May 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780897934039
Subjects: Birth control, contraception, family planning; Sex & sexuality; Popular works; Health & Fitness; Consumer Health; Health/Fitness; Women's Health - General; Pregnancy & Childbirth; Sexuality; Health & Fitness / Women's Health; Diet / Health / Fitness; Natural family planning
First sentence: What is your family planning goal right now?
Table of contents: title: Natural family planning and fertility awareness methods : what are they? -- The evolution of natural family planning and fertility awareness methods. How have people attempted to prevent pregnancy? -- What is the history of natural family planning? -- How effective are these methods of natural family planning? -- The man and his fertility -- The woman and her fertility. External female reproductive anatomy -- Internal female reproductive organs -- Puberty and the fertility cycle -- Events of the fertility cycle -- Menstruation through history -- Your fertility signs. Cervical mucus changes -- Basal body temperature -- Changes in the cervix -- Secondary fertility signs. Possible secondary fertility signs as ovulation approaches -- Signs and symptoms of PMS -- A word about the major and secondary fertility signs -- A last word about observing fertility signs -- Charting the way to awareness. Recording cervical mucus changes -- Recording basal body temperature (BBT) -- Recording cervical changes -- Recording secondary fertility signs -- Completing the fertility chart : an example -- Using fertility awareness information to become pregnant. Instructions for planning a pregnancy -- Becoming pregnant -- Infertility -- Scientific advances to help couples achieve pregnancy -- The natural family planning method. NFP rules used to determine the infertile phase before ovulation : the most conservative rules -- NFP rule used to determine the beginning of the fertile phase -- NFP rules used to determine the infertile days before ovulation : less conservative rules -- Short cycle calculations -- One more situation to think about -- NFP rules used to determine the infertile phase after ovulation -- Summary of the infertile and fertile times of the fertility cycle -- The basic infertile mucus pattern -- Sympto-thermal method choices -- Using the cervical mucus method to prevent pregnancy -- Applying the sympto-thermal NFP rules -- When can you begin using these rules to prevent pregnancy? -- Special circumstances : the later years, breastfeeding, illnesses, etc. Ovulation on time -- Late or delayed ovulation -- No ovulation -- The basic infertile patterns of cervical mucus -- Special circumstances rules -- Causes of anovulation -- Other special circumstances -- Some final tips on special circumstances and mucus -- The fertility awareness method -- The advantages and disadvantages of natural family planning and fertility awareness methods. Should you use natural family planning? -- What does sexuality mean? -- Do you want a pregnancy? -- How does natural family planning fit into all of this? -- The advantages of the fertility awareness method -- A few last words -- Sample NFP contracts -- Sample contract for the woman -- Sample contract for the couple -- Blank fertility awareness chart.