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This comprehensive text brings together the scientific background, methodology and teaching skills to support health professionals in providing fertility awareness methods. It offers an ideal reference for general practitioners, practice nurses, and sexual health doctors and nurses.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of figures
List of tables
Images and permissions
- Overview of fertility awareness
- Male fertility
- Female fertility
- Temperature: first indicator
- Cervical secretions: second indicator
- Cervix: third indicator
- Calendar calculations: fourth indicator
- Minor indicators of fertility
- Home test kits and monitors
- Combining indicators
- Simplified methods
- Factors affecting the menstrual cycle
- FAMs for women of normal fertility
- Contraception and returning fertility
- FAMs after hormonal contraception
- Breastfeeding, LAM and returning fertility
- FAMs during the peri-menopause
- Planning pregnancy
- Conception delays and assisted fertility
- Teaching fertility awareness
Appendix A. Normal fertility chart
Appendix B. Instructions for use
Appendix C. Planning pregnancy chart
Appendix D. Chart summary sheet
Appendix E. Autonomy checklist
Appendix F. Body mass index chart
Appendix G. Drugs which affect the menstrual cycle
Appendix H. Further reading
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Jane Knight is a fertility nurse specialist with over 30 years' experience teaching fertility awareness in both NHS and private practice. She was the UK Principal Investigator for the European multi-centre study on the probability of conception on different days of the menstrual cycle. She trains health professionals in the UK and internationally.
Summary
This comprehensive text brings together the scientific background, methodology and teaching skills to support health professionals in providing fertility awareness methods. It offers an ideal reference for general practitioners, practice nurses, and sexual health doctors and nurses.
