Why Is NFP the best in family planning?
NFP provides a medically safe, healthy, highly effective and very low cost method of planning your family. It is convenient (no birth control devices to use), and it’s immediately reversible for achieving or avoiding pregnancy. It is increasingly available throughout the world, it tells you when you have achieved pregnancy, and it’s morally acceptable. What’s the basis for NFP? It is scientifically established that during each menstrual cycle a woman normally becomes fertile and then naturally infertile. The fertile time is the part of her cycle when sexual intercourse can result in pregnancy. Her body provides certain physical signs to indicate her fertile and infertile times. What are the signs of fertility and infertility? The primary signs are a normal discharge of cervical mucus and changes in a woman’s waking temperature. Secondary signs include changes in her cervix and a feeling called “ovulation pain.” Cervical mucus is nature’s way of helping a man’s sperm to reach a woman’s
