Also known as fertility awareness, natural family planning, and the rhythm method, this approach entails not having sexual intercourse on the days of a woman's menstrual cycle when she could become pregnant or using a barrier method (such as a condom, the diaphragm or a cervical cap) for birth control on those days. Because a sperm may live in [..]

Not having vaginal intercourse during the “unsafe days” of a woman’s fertile phase in order to prevent pregnancy.

A class of natural Contraceptive Methods in which Sexual Abstinence is practiced a few days before and after the estimated day of Ovulation, during the fertile phase. Methods for determining the Ferti [..]