Nursing Care for Reproductive Life
Planning
1. Reproductive Life Planning: Includes all decisions an individual or a couple make about having children, including if and
when to have children, how many children to have, and the length of time between having children.
2. Contraceptives: An ideal contraceptive should be safe, ettective, compatible with religious and cultural beliefs
and personal preferences of user and partner, free of bothersome side ettects, convenient to use and easy to obtain, attordable and needing fe
instructions for use, and free of ettects on future pregnancies after discontinuation.
3. Natural Family Planning: Also called 'periodic abstinence methods', it has a failure rate that ranges from
2% to 25% and requires the couple to be conscious of the time period when the female partner is most likely to be fertile.
4. Abstinence: Has a 0% failure rate and is the most ettective method to prevent sexually transmitted infections
(STIs).
5. Lactation amenorrhea method (LAM): A safe method with a failure rate of 1% to 5% if the infant is under 6 months of
age, breastfeeding with no supplements, and menses has not returned.
6. Coitus interruptus: 82% ettective; does not prevent STIs.
7. Postcoital douching: Inettective.
8. Fertility Awareness Methods: Includes the calendar (rhythm) method, basal body temperature (BBT)
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Planning
method, cervical mucus (Billing's) method, two-day method, symptothermal method, standard days method: Cycle- Beads, and ovulation
detection.
9. Barrier methods: Methods that place a chemical or latex barrier between the cervix and advancing sperm.
10. Hormonal contraceptives: Hormones that cause fluctuations in the normal menstrual cycle to prevent
ovulation or normal transport.
11. Combination oral contraceptives (COCs): A type of oral contraceptive that combines hormones.
12. Intrauterine Devices (IUDs): A small plastic device inserted into the uterus to prevent fertilization
and/or decrease sperm motility.
13. Copper T380: A type of intrauterine device.
14. Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (Mirena or Liletta): A type of IUD that
releases levonorgestrel.
15. Emergency Postcoital Contraception: For use in emergency only (such as rape), includes high-dose
progestin-based pills, insertion of copper IUD, and Ulipristal acetate (known as ella).
16. Elective Termination of Pregnancy (Induced Abortion): Termination of pregnancy per- formed by a
knowledgeable healthcare provider to end a pregnancy before fetal viability.
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Planning
1. Reproductive Life Planning: Includes all decisions an individual or a couple make about having children, including if and
when to have children, how many children to have, and the length of time between having children.
2. Contraceptives: An ideal contraceptive should be safe, ettective, compatible with religious and cultural beliefs
and personal preferences of user and partner, free of bothersome side ettects, convenient to use and easy to obtain, attordable and needing fe
instructions for use, and free of ettects on future pregnancies after discontinuation.
3. Natural Family Planning: Also called 'periodic abstinence methods', it has a failure rate that ranges from
2% to 25% and requires the couple to be conscious of the time period when the female partner is most likely to be fertile.
4. Abstinence: Has a 0% failure rate and is the most ettective method to prevent sexually transmitted infections
(STIs).
5. Lactation amenorrhea method (LAM): A safe method with a failure rate of 1% to 5% if the infant is under 6 months of
age, breastfeeding with no supplements, and menses has not returned.
6. Coitus interruptus: 82% ettective; does not prevent STIs.
7. Postcoital douching: Inettective.
8. Fertility Awareness Methods: Includes the calendar (rhythm) method, basal body temperature (BBT)
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Planning
method, cervical mucus (Billing's) method, two-day method, symptothermal method, standard days method: Cycle- Beads, and ovulation
detection.
9. Barrier methods: Methods that place a chemical or latex barrier between the cervix and advancing sperm.
10. Hormonal contraceptives: Hormones that cause fluctuations in the normal menstrual cycle to prevent
ovulation or normal transport.
11. Combination oral contraceptives (COCs): A type of oral contraceptive that combines hormones.
12. Intrauterine Devices (IUDs): A small plastic device inserted into the uterus to prevent fertilization
and/or decrease sperm motility.
13. Copper T380: A type of intrauterine device.
14. Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (Mirena or Liletta): A type of IUD that
releases levonorgestrel.
15. Emergency Postcoital Contraception: For use in emergency only (such as rape), includes high-dose
progestin-based pills, insertion of copper IUD, and Ulipristal acetate (known as ella).
16. Elective Termination of Pregnancy (Induced Abortion): Termination of pregnancy per- formed by a
knowledgeable healthcare provider to end a pregnancy before fetal viability.
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