BASIC FACTS ABOUT NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING
Monday, March 23, 2009 | 4:16 amWhat is Natural Family Planning? Natural Family Planning, or NFP, is based on the idea that if you understand your own menstrual cycle you can predict the times when you are most likely to be fertile. It is called Natural Family Planning because you do not use any artificial devices or chemical hormones. You just pay attention to the natural changes in your body and only have sex when you feel that all the signs tell you that you are very unlikely to become pregnant You may hear natural methods called Fertility Awareness Methods, or FAM. Being fertile means that you are quite likely to become pregnant if you have sex without using any contraception. Most women are fertile for up to eight days of each menstrual cycle. This may surprise you, because generally we think that women only get pregnant when they ovulate, but although the egg only lives from about 12 to 24 hours, sperm can live for several days inside a woman’s uterus and Fallopian tubes. In fact, it is possible for sperm to survive there for up to seven days, and if that happened, you just might become pregnant even if you had not had sex for nearly a week before you ovulated.
Are there different types of Natural Family Planning? There are four ways to work out when you are likely to be fertile. They are the Calendar method, the Temperature method, the ‘Billings’ (Mucus) method and a combination of these which is usually known as the Sympto-thermal method.
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