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Post-ovulation methods (i.e., abstaining from intercourse from menstruation until after ovulation) have a method failure rate of 1% per year. The symptothermal method has a method failure rate of 2% per year. Cervical mucus–only methods have a method failure rate of 3% per year. Calendar rhythm has a method failure rate of 9% per year.
The League was the first organization to teach a symptoms-based method of fertility awareness that relied on all three primary fertility signs: temperature, mucus, and cervical position. [1] CCL has grown to be the largest natural family planning provider in the United States, teaching the sympto-thermal method to almost 8,000 couples in 2004. [2]
If two or more signs are tracked, the method is referred to as a symptothermal method. Two popular symptothermal systems are taught by the Couple to Couple League and the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) with Toni Weschler. A study completed in Germany in 2007 found that the symptothermal method has a method effectiveness of 99.6%. [56]
Methods of identifying infertile days have been known since antiquity, but scientific knowledge gained during the past century has increased the number and variety of methods. Various methods can be used and the Symptothermal method has achieved success rates over 99% if used properly. [33]
Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent pregnancy. [1] [2] Birth control has been used since ancient times, but effective and safe methods of birth control only became available in the 20th century. [3]
Charting of basal body temperatures is used in some methods of fertility awareness, such as the sympto-thermal method, and may be used to determine the onset of post-ovulatory infertility. [4] When BBT alone is used to avoid a pregnancy, it is sometimes called the Temperature Rhythm method.
Feig's study employed three methods — clinical exam, mammography and thermography — to screen 16,000 women between the ages of 40 and 64 for breast cancer and found that mammography detected ...
The safety of the symptothermal method can be compared to the pill. Dokiwi 15:30, 1 June 2008 (UTC) For symptothermal methods that use the Five Day Rule or the modified Doering Rule used in the recent German study, the failure rate is under 1%. For symptothermal methods that use the Dry Day Rule the failure rate is 3%.