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Contraception - Management
What natural family planning methods are recommended for use in the UK?
- Natural family planning methods (techniques to avoid conception) that are recommended fall into two categories: fertility awareness–based methods (which involves abstinence), and the lactational amenorrhoea method (that does not involve abstinence).
- Fertility awareness–based methods monitor changes in one or more indicators of fertility such as basal body temperature, cervical secretions, hormone levels, and/or estimating the fertile days of the menstrual cycle.
- The lactational amenorrhoea method can be used provided:
- Complete amenorrhoea, and
- Fully or very nearly fully breastfeeding, and
- No longer than 6 months since birth of the baby.
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