Natural Family Planning (NFP)

The best way to understand CycleBeads, a fertility awareness birth control method that is part of the Natural Family Planning (NFP) group, is to look at it in the context of all the other NFP methods.

I don't have time at the moment to review each method, but here's a list of all the NFP methods. I'll add more information as time permits. [ETA: Natural Family Planning II, and III.]

1. CONTINUOUS ABSTINENCE

2. OUTERCOURSE

3. COITAL TECHNIQUE

Coitus Interruptus (Withdrawal)

Coitus Reservatus

Coitus Obstructus

4. FERTILITY AWARENESS METHODS (FAM)

a) Calendar Method

Rhythm (Ogino-Knaus)

Standard Days Method (SDM)

CycleBeads

b) Basal Body Temperature (BBT) Method

(Bioself 110/Mini-Sofia, LadyComp/BabyComp, Cyclotest-2)

c) Ovulation Method

Billings Method (Cervical Mucus)

Creighton Model

TwoDay Method

d) Cervical Changes Method

e) Sympto-Thermal Method

f) Personal Hormone Monitoring Method

Persona

5. LACTATIONAL AMENORRHEA (Breastfeeding)