Family planning

What is FAMILY PLANNING?

- Aims to assist to assist parents to arrive at mature and intelligent decision on the number of children whom they can provide quality life

3 Main aspect of Family Planning

Responsible Parenthood Proper Spacing of Children Birth Control

NORMS ON FAMILY PLANNING

Sociological Norms Ecclesiastical Norms

Family Planning is the process whereby through interaction, married couples arrive at an intelligent decision on the number of children they could provide with quality life.

All the major religions of the world believe in the guiding principle that a couple has a right to limit family size. However, continuing disagreements are still present over which methods are acceptable

Medical Norms

Family Planning, through the use of contraceptive provides protection against unwanted pregnancies

NORMS ON FAMILY PLANNING

Psychological Norms Legal - Juridical Norms

Family Planning has Psychological bearing on problems which confront the youth today brought about by their developmental stage and the sexual revolution in the present times.

Government support of Family Planning is reflected in Article XV Sec. 10 of the Philippine Contitution to achieve and maintain population levels most conducive to the national welfare. Measures to its implementation have made in law and pratice

contraception

What is CONTRACEPTION?
Deliberate prevention of conception or inpregnation

Birth control method and techniques

Pill or Oral Contraceptive

Tablet made of man-made hormones mimicking the one your produces monthly on its own

Morning-After Pill

Form of emergency birth control.

Implants
Six matchstick-size containing progestin or progesterone

2.Sterilization or Surgical Method

The eggs or sperm are prevented from going any where by cutting, knotting or blocking the tubes along way w/c they normally travel

Kinds of sterilization
TUBAL LIGATION

A female sterilization which involves tying, cutting or searing the two fallopian tubes via surgery to block the passage way of uterus.
VASECTOMY

Male sterilization involves tying, cutting or searing the two deferens to prevent the sperm from mixing with the seminal fluid.

TUBAL LIGATION

VASECTOMY

3.MECHANICAL OR BARRIER METHOD

Putting a physical barrier between sperms or egg, so that they cannot meet.

KINDS OF BARRIER METHOD

MALE CONDOM/ PROPHYLACTIC LATEX

Synthetic latex sheath worn over the penis during copulation to prevent its entering in womans womb

KINDS OF BARRIER METHOD

FEMALE CONDOM

Elongated as polyurethane sheath about 6.5 inches long, with a flexible ring at each end .

KINDS OF BARRIER METHOD

DIAPHRAGM

A thin rubber cap with flexible rim that fits into the top of the vigina and covers the cervex, the neck or entrance to womb.

KINDS OF BARRIER METHOD

SPONGE

A soft , donut-shaped device, which is made of spongy material that contains spermicide

4. Natural Family Planning Methods

Also called fertility awareness, refers to methods for planning and preventing pregnancies by observation of the naturally occurring signs and symptoms of the fertile and infertile phases of the menstrual cycle

natural family planning

Rhythm or Calendar method

Cervical Mucus Method Billings Method

Withdrawal or Coitus Interruptus

Prolonged Lactation or Lactational Amenorrhea

Basal Body Temperature (BBT)

The Douche

Sympto-thermal method

Abstinence

Rhythm or Calendar method

---Known as the safe period. It is a fertility tracking method using a calendar.

Cervical Mucus Method

---Method relying on a womans familiarity with her body and its processes. The vaginal discharge after a womans period is used as the indicators of fertility.

Basal Body Temperature (BBT)

Involves the daily recording of the temperature changes in the womans body with special thermometer.

SYMPTO-THERMAL METHOD
Combination of BBT and the cervical mucus method and other physiological indicators of ovulation, such as tenderness of the breast and mid-cycle pain.

Withdrawal

The man withdraws his penis from the womans vagina just before the sperm containing fluid ejaculates.

Prolonged Lactation
KNOWN TO PROTECT WOMEN FROM PREGNANCY FOR THE FIRST 6 MONTHS AFTER GIVING BIRTH.

Prolactin- suppressed ovulation on the nursing mother, also increased the supply of breast milk.

The Douche

Involves the washing out of the sperm and semen deposited inside the women vagina

Abstinence

Avoidance of any sexual activities that could cause pregnancy

5. Intra- uterine Devices or IUD

Made of small flexible plastic of metal a few centimeters long that is placed inside the uterus.