MCN (Nursing Care for the Family in Need of Reproductive Life Planning)

•Includes all decisions an individual or a couple make about having children, including
o If and when to have children
o How many children to have
o The length of time between having children
•Counseling may include the topics of avoiding conception, increasing fertility, and/or what to do if contraception has failed.

called "periodic abstinence methods"

• No chemical or foreign material into body
• Failure rate ranges from 2% to 25%
• Need for couple to be conscious of time period when woman is most likely to be fertile

• 0% failure rate
• Most effective method to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

•Lactation amenorrhea method (LAM)

Safe method with failure rate of 1% to 5% if
> Infant under 6 months of age
> Breastfeeding with no supplements
> Menses has not returned

82% effective; does not prevent STIs