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  2. Fertility awareness - Wikipedia

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    The term natural family planning is sometimes used to refer to any use of fertility awareness methods, the lactational amenorrhea method and periodic abstinence during fertile times. A method of fertility awareness may be used by natural family planning users to identify these fertile times.

  3. Couple to Couple League - Wikipedia

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    The League was the first organization to teach a symptoms-based method of fertility awareness that relied on all three primary fertility signs: temperature, mucus, and cervical position. [1] CCL has grown to be the largest natural family planning provider in the United States, teaching the sympto-thermal method to almost 8,000 couples in 2004. [2]

  4. Creighton Model FertilityCare System - Wikipedia

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    For avoiding pregnancy, the perfect-use failure rate of Creighton was 0.5%, which means that for each year that 1,000 couples using this method perfectly, that there are 5 unintended pregnancies. The typical-use failure rate, representing the fraction of couples using this method that actually had an unintended pregnancy, is reported as 3.2% ...

  5. Natural family planning - Wikipedia

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    The "safe period" method of fertility awareness is the most common family planning method used in India, although condoms are used by some. [35] Of all American women surveyed nationally in 2002, only 0.9% were using "periodic abstinence" (defined as "calendar rhythm" and "natural family planning") compared to 60.6% using other contraceptive ...

  6. Family planning - Wikipedia

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    Family planning, as defined by the United Nations and the World Health Organization, encompasses services leading up to conception. Abortion is not typically recommended as a primary method of family planning. [7] Family planning is sometimes used as a synonym or euphemism for access to and the use of contraception. However, it often involves ...

  7. Family planning in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The objective of family planning in the United States is to enable individuals to determine the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by which that target may be achieved. Doing so can bring many benefits including improved maternal health, the prevention of the spread of STDs , and decreased infant and child mortality rates.

  8. Billings ovulation method - Wikipedia

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    Typical use of this method is associated with a pregnancy rate of 1 to 22%. [1] A World Health Organization study found that 15% is caused by a conscious departure from method rules. [1] The percentage of people who stop using the method after a year is 1–24%. [1] Perfect use has been estimated to result in pregnancy in 0.5–3%.

  9. Calendar-based contraceptive methods - Wikipedia

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    Methods accepted by this church are referred to as natural family planning (NFP): so at one time, the term "the rhythm method" was synonymous with NFP. Today, NFP is an umbrella term that includes symptoms-based fertility awareness methods and the lactational amenorrhea method as well as calendar-based methods such as rhythm. [ 7 ]