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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Does nature know best? Background and mechanisms of natural family planning.

AUTHORS

Norman C

SOURCE

MIDWIVES. 1995 Mar;108(1286):85-8.

ABSTRACT

Researchers at the Georgetown University's Institute for Reproductive Health, in the US, are promoting the Lactational

Amenorrhea Method (LAM) which allows mothers to follow nature's guidelines to achieve birth spacing. LAM will not

work unless the baby is fully or nearly fully breast fed. In such cases, if the mother remains amenorrheic, she has a

only 2% chance of becoming pregnant during the first six months of the baby's life. In some cases, LAM will

continue to protect against pregnancy during the first nine months, or even the first year postpartum. Of course, LAM

simply adds to the number of advantages of breast feeding, including providing immunity to the infant and protecting

the infant from contaminated food. Natural methods of fertility control also exist during normal menstrual cycles.

Recognition of the various mucus phases of a cycle can give a woman absolute control over her fertility. Colored

charting books help women to keep track of their cycles. A combined approach using many indicators, the sympto-

thermal method, can also be used. This method relies on changes in temperature as well as on changes in mucus.

Trials are also underway of devices which measure hormone levels in urine to indicate fertility. Such natural

methods are environmentally friendly and empower the women who use them as they learn how their bodies work.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2545-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Does nature know best? Background and mechanisms of

natural family planning.", is(are) Norman C. The source of this article is "MIDWIVES. 1995 Mar;108(1286):85-8.".

This article was published in 1995 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2545-06. All

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