Natural Family Planning Susan E. Fleming MN, RN Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist

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Fertility Bracelets Supplies per bracelet 5 Red beads 12 Yellow beads (or any color you choose). 11 white beads Stretch cord 1 safety pin

Anticipating a new baby is one of life's most unique and precious experience.

With Natural Family Planning, you decide when is a good time for you and your family to have a baby.

Abstinence is the only method that is effective a hundred percent. Natural Family Planning (NFP) can be 90-98% effective. Approved by many religions and ethnic groups throughout the world.

Women have one to two eggs that travel to woman’s uterus once a month. An unfertilized egg can live up to 12 hours. Men have millions of sperm Sperm live for forty-eight to seventy-two hours, no egg they die.

Men are always fertile and women are fertile once a month. Answer = When is a women fertile?

1. Calendar 1. Temperature 1. Fertile Mucous.

Natural Family Planning: The Standard Days Method ® Georgetown University SDM is 95% effective when used correctly. The 95% means that 5 out of 100 women practicing this method correctly for one year will get pregnant.

Day 1 = Start of Period Day 1-7 = Intercourse is ok, low risk of conception Day 8-19 = Abstain from intercourse Day = Intercourse is ok, low risk for conception Natural Family Planning: The Standard Days Method ® Georgetown University

Your temperature will rise the morning that you ovulate. This will be around day fourteen.

After your menstrual period is finished, take your temperature the same time every morning.

Vaginal mucous is like egg whites. Mucous should stretch and be clear.

Three Methods 1. Calendar 1. Temperature 1. Fertile Mucous. Fertility Bracelet

How to conceive a baby: A sperm of a man unites upon ovulation of a woman during intercourse. Red = are the days of your period ovulate White= are days when you are fertile, when you ovulate. You should not have sexual relations if you do not want babies. It begins with the first day of your period, and continue with the three beads as the figures indicate. mucus The days you are fertile, your vaginal mucus has the aspect of the clear of the egg. = Susan E. Fleming, MN 2007; Brigham Young University, Provo UT

Twenty-eight beads on the bracelet = Twenty- eight days of a month. Start at knot or safety pin

Five red beads = the five days of menses, intercourse is okay. You are at a low risk for conception.

Three yellow beads = Three days intercourse is okay, you are at a low risk for conception.

Eleven White Beads = No intercourse, you are at a high risk for conception.

Nine yellow beads = Nine days intercourse is okay. You are at a low risk for conception.

When are you the most fertile? When is one physical way you can tell you are fertile? Where do you begin on the bracelet? What direction do you follow? How do you prevent pregnancy?

…as you plan your family

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