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Natural Family Planning Relies on Knowing Your Fertility Cycle
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios


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If a woman wants to use natural family planning as her method of birth control, then it is important that she is very aware of her fertility cycle. This is best done by a woman who has a regular cycle. The key issue is when a woman will ovulate. She should understand that this happens fourteen days before her period. That means if she has a twenty eight day cycle, she will ovulate on day fourteen, but if she has a thirty two day cycle, it will not happen until day eighteen. Taking into consideration that sperm will live as long as seven days after a couple make love this shows when abstaining is necessary.

In a woman’s fertility cycle there are safe periods. The safe period usually begins the first day a woman’s period starts. This safe period ends when it comes close enough to the fertile period that the seven day survival of the sperm could cause pregnancy. Therefore this first safe period is quite short. Consequently, when using a natural planning method of birth control, abstinence during much of the first half of a woman’s cycle is necessary. If abstinence is not the choice, then some method of contraception must be used.

From the end of period when a woman is fertile until the beginning of her next period is the other safe time. This is a considerably longer period of time. Having unprotected intercourse during this time should not result in a pregnancy. However, there are no guarantees. This method of birth control is not without its risks, since for it to work, a woman must have very regular cycles and be able to closely read what her body is telling her. Taking her temperature in the morning before getting out of bed can offer hints to when her fertile period begins, since at that time, her temperature will rise anywhere from a half a degree to three quarters of a degree. Charting the results of this any other signs a women notices during the fertility cycle can useful in helping the process of a natural method of contraception. But, if this is what you are thinking about trying, you should know that of one hundred women who use this method, six will become pregnant when they were not trying to.

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