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

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

2. Susan E. Fleming MN, RNPerinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist

3. Make Posters from a PowerPoint Slide How to make an Economic Poster? • Go to PowerPoint • Use Graphics and Make a Poster • Take a thumb drive or disc to a Print Shop and make a poster.

4. Natural Family Planning Poster Poster Making Tips • Go to File • Go to Page Set-up • Choose Vertical or Horizontal Layout. • Use Graphics to design poster • Save as a PowerPoint or JPEG for print. • Make small versions for handouts

5. Post-Class Quiz Quiz Tips • Use this slide to help with questions after your presentation. • Can be attached to back of the poster.

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

7. Welcome

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

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

10. Methods of Natural Family Planning. • 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.

11. Women have eggs ~ Men have sperm. • 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.

12. What do we do? • Men are always fertile and women are fertile once a month. Answer = When is a women fertile?

13. Three Methods • Calendar • Temperature • Fertile Mucous.

14. Calendar Standard Days Method • 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. Natural Family Planning: The Standard Days Method ® Georgetown University http://www.natural-family-planning.info/standard-days-method.htm

15. Calendar Standard Days Method • Day 1 = Start of Period • Day 1-7 = Intercourse is ok, low risk of conception • Day 8-19 = Abstain from intercourse • Day 20-30 = Intercourse is ok, low risk for conception • Natural Family Planning: The Standard Days Method ® Georgetown University http://www.natural-family-planning.info/standard-days-method.htm

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

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

18. Fertile MucousAround day fourteen you will have fertile mucous • Vaginal mucous is like egg whites. • Mucous should stretch and be clear.

19. Three Methods Fertility Bracelet • Calendar • Temperature • Fertile Mucous.

20. Natural Family PlanningHow can it Prevent Pregnancy How to conceive a baby: A sperm of a man unites upon ovulation of a woman during intercourse. = It begins with the first day of your period, and continue with the three beads as the figures indicate. White= are days when you are fertile, when you ovulate. You should not have sexual relations if you do not want babies. Red = are the days of your period 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

21. Fertility Beads are as easy as 1-2-3 • Twenty-eight beads on the bracelet = Twenty- eight days of a month. • Start at knot or safety pin

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

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

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

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

26. Quiz • 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?

27. Best Wishes… • …as you plan your family

28. References • Natural-Family-Planning (2010) http://www.natural-family-planning.info/standard-days-method.htm • Natural Family Planning (2008). http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/women/contraceptive/126.html