Natural family planning offered

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Easy-to-use natural family-planning methods are a good fit for the holistic healthcare approach practiced by nurse-midwives, say U.S. researchers.

Traditionally, natural methods have been under-represented among the family-planning options offered to women by nurse-midwives because these methods require lengthy instruction and are difficult for many women to learn and use, according to researchers at Georgetown University's Institute for Reproductive Health.

Offering natural family planning methods to their clients fits well with the philosophy of nurse-midwives and the needs of the women they serve, says senior author Victoria Jennings and co-author Elaine Germano.

"Our goal in developing new natural methods is to meet the needs of the many women who want to manage their own fertility without hormones or devices but without the burden of daily monitoring and charting required by older natural methods," said Jennings. "These new methods are effective as well as easy to teach, learn and use."

The findings are published in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health.

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