New Approaches to Fertility Awareness-Based Methods: Incorporating the Standard Days and TwoDay Methods into Practice
| Autor: | Elaine Germano, Victoria Jennings |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Cervix Uteri Body Temperature Nursing Pregnancy Maternity and Midwifery medicine Humans Natural family planning Menstrual Cycle Menstrual cycle Sexual Abstinence media_common Ovulation Detection Fertility awareness business.industry Obstetrics and Gynecology Natural Family Planning Methods Patient Acceptance of Health Care medicine.disease Sexual abstinence Fertility Family planning Natural fertility Family medicine Cervix Mucus Self-Examination Female business Developed country |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. 51:471-477 |
| ISSN: | 1526-9523 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jmwh.2006.05.002 |
| Popis: | Helping clients select and use appropriate family planning methods is a basic component of midwifery care. Many women prefer nonhormonal, nondevice methods, and may be interested in methods that involve understanding their natural fertility. Two new fertility awareness-based methods, the Standard Days Method and the TwoDay Method, meet the need for effective, easy-to-provide, easy-to-use approaches. The Standard Days Method is appropriate for women with most menstrual cycles between 26 and 32 days long. Women using this method are taught to avoid unprotected intercourse on potentially fertile days 8 through 19 of their cycles to prevent pregnancy. They use CycleBeads, a color-coded string of beads representing the menstrual cycle, to monitor their cycle days and cycle lengths. The Standard Days Method is more than 95% effective with correct use. The TwoDay Method is based on the presence or absence of cervical secretions to identify fertile days. To use this method, women are taught to note everyday whether they have secretions. If they had secretions on the current day or the previous day, they consider themselves fertile. The TwoDay Method is 96% effective with correct use. Both methods fit well into midwifery practice. |
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