Family Planning Notes: Birth Spacing, the Medical Eligibility Criteria and a Guide to Every Method

Family planning class notes that open with the definitions, the birth-spacing recommendations and the risks of a pregnancy within twelve months of giving birth, then work through the methods in detail. Each carries its medical eligibility criteria categories, the timing for starting or insertion, the instructions given to the woman afterwards and the side effects with their management, from implants, injectables and oral pills to the intrauterine device, the barrier methods and fertility-awareness methods such as the TwoDay and the Billings cervical mucus methods. A closing guide to family planning tables the pregnancy rates of each method at typical and perfect use, its protection against infection and the delay before fertility returns.