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Fertility awareness methods (FAMs) are ways to track your menstrual cycle and fertile days so you can prevent pregnancy. FAMs are also called "natural family planning” and “the rhythm method.”
Does tracking your menstrual cycle and ovulation schedule work as a sufficient method of birth control? Tracking ovulation — the release of an egg — in order to prevent pregnancy is also known as a fertility awareness-based method (FAM) of birth control.
Fertility awareness involves tracking your menstrual cycle to determine when you are most fertile. This method requires discipline and consistency but can be 77-98% effective when done correctly. There are several methods of natural family planning, including the basal body temperature method, the cervical mucus method, and the calendar method.
Natural family planning involves a woman tracking her monthly cycle from her period through ovulation to determine when she is most and least likely to get pregnant. When used correctly, this method prevents pregnancy 77-98% of the time. 24 out of 100 women who use natural family planning will have a pregnancy if they use the method correctly.
To use the Cervical Mucus Method to prevent pregnancy, you check out your mucus every day and write the results on a chart. The changes in your mucus help you figure out when you’re going to ovulate and are able to get pregnant.
The better you are about using the pull out method correctly — keeping any ejaculation (cum) away from the vulva and vagina every single time you have sex — the better it will work to prevent pregnancy. For every 100 people who use the pull out method perfectly, 4 will get pregnant.
The calendar method helps you predict your fertile days by tracking the length of your menstrual cycles over several months to create a fertility calendar.
The temperature method (aka, basal temperature method) helps you predict when you’re going to ovulate by tracking the changes in your body temperature during your menstrual cycle.
FAMs are ways to track your ovulation so you can prevent pregnancy. The three main FAMs are: The Temperature Method: you take your temperature in the morning every day before you get out of bed. The Cervical Mucus Method: you check your cervical mucus (vaginal discharge) every day.
How does breastfeeding prevent pregnancy? When you exclusively breastfeed — meaning you nurse at least every 4 hours during the day and every 6 hours at night, and feed your baby only breast milk — your body naturally stops ovulating .