Natural Family Planning and Newborn Assessment

Vocabulary terms covering natural family planning methods, oral contraceptive warning signs, menopause, and newborn physiological assessment and reflexes.

Natural Family planning

Also known as fertility awareness; includes types such as Basal body temp, Cervical mucus (Billings Method), Spinnbarkeit, and Calendar or rhythm method.

Spinnbarkeit

Stretching Characteristics of the mucous.

Calendar or rhythm method

A method based on the fact that ovulation occurs around $14$ days before the next menstural period.

Marquette method

Incorporates use of an electronic hormonal fertility monitor that tracks changes of levels of Urinary metabolites of estrogen & LH.

ACHES

Warning signs to Report when taking Oral Contraceptives: Abdominal pain (severe), Chest pain (dyspnea, bloody sputum), HA (severe, weakness, numbness), Eye problems (blurring, double vision, vision loss), and Severe leg pain or swelling (speech disturbances).

Female Sterilization

Includes tubal ligation and hysteroscopic Sterilization; requires use of BC for $3$ months until tubal fibrosis occurs.

Menopause

No menstural periods for a $12$ month period because of changes in estrogen production.

Climacteric

Change of life AKA perimenopausal period, occurring $2-8$ years before mensturation ceases.

Dyspareunia

Painful intercourse.

Moro (Startle)

A normal neurological reflex response in full term infants.

Rooting

A reflex that mothers are taught to use when breastfeeding.

Tonic neck

A stepping/dancing reflex found in full term infants.

Caput succedaneum

Swelling of soft tissues of the scalp caused by the delivery process; it crosses the suture line.

Cephalhematoma

A collection of blood beneath the periosteum of the cranial bone; it does not cross the suture line.

Fontanels

Soft spots that protect the head during delivery and allow for further brain growth.

Glomerular flow

The rate of this flow is decreased in newborns, limiting the kidneys' ability to concentrate urine and maintain fluid balance.