PIP: The symptothermal methods include all those that identify the woman's fertile period
through the basal body temperature and the periovulatory signs. Research conducted following …

Women experienced in cervical self-palpation recognize fertile characteristics when the
cervix is high, open, soft, and straight; this happens under estrogenic influence. The cervix is …

This prospective study was conducted among experienced users of periodic abstinence
methods in Sydney, Montreal, and Birmingham (England) in order to describe the relationship …

Identifying the return of fertility with cervical mucus observations is challenging during the
postpartum period. Use of urinary measurements of estrogen and progesterone can assist in …

OBJECTIVE: To examine bleeding between 6 and 8 weeks postpartum in fully breast-feeding
women and its association with fertility as assessed by hormone analysis. METHODS: …

Methods of natural family planning are sometimes difficult for women to use during lactation.
When this is so, the lactational amenorrhea method may prove useful. Researchers agree …

In the Sympto-Thermal Methods of natural faJDily planning, several cyclical signs and
symptoms are combined with the variations in waking temperature to help define the maximum …

THE PURPOSE of our study was to correlate the clinical signs of the return of fertility—as the
woman observes them in the Sympto-Thermal Method—with the breast-feeding variables. A …

… We reach a low point indeed when the distinction between preference and prejudice is
blurred to the extent that even the most innocuous of choices brands one as being phobic about …

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