Natural Family Planning自然计划生育.pptVIP

* Obviously if a couple is trying to achieve pregnancy they should have intercourse during the fertile window. NFP is very helpful at pinpointing the days most likely to conceive. Couples assume when they get married they will get pregnant easily; however, 15% of American couples are infertile. Charting your fertility can be a tremendous help in the evaluation and treatment of infertility. To avoid pregnancy a couple would avoid intercourse and genital contact during the fertile phase. * There have been numerous studies to determine the effectiveness of the various systems of NFP to avoid pregnancy. When systems of NFP are taught and used correctly they range in effectiveness to avoid pregnancy (based on 100 women over 12 months of use) from 85% with calendar formulas to close to 99% with double indicator methods. The effectiveness in typical use drops to a range of 84% to 90% largely due to the lack of compliance in following basic instructions. OPTIONAL Robert Kambic (formerly of Johns Hopkins University with expertise in NFP effectiveness studies), published a short article in Current Medical Research, a publication of the USCCB. Kambic reviewed the results of effectiveness rates of 15 Sympto-Thermal (multiple index methods) studies and 23 OM (single index) studies since 1974. He found that the unplanned pregnancy rate among the OM studies were significantly higher than the STM if not done perfectly. Based on these studies, on average the STM is about 90% effective and OM about 85% effective in avoiding pregnancy. You should also realize, that unlike contraceptive methods, methods of NFP can also be evaluated to see how effective they are in helping couples to achieve pregnancy. * When couples have accurate charting, accurate observations, consistent use, mutual and loving motivation, NFP can be very effective in both achieving and avoiding pregnancy. The following slides will illustrate some of the classic methods of NFP that have been developed in