Saturday, November 25, 2006
Billings Ovulation Method: Teacher Training Programme
Date: 22nd Nov 2006 to 24th Nov 2006.
Training Hours: 9am to 5pm.
What the hell is that? In simpler words, if you or your female partner (if you are a guy) does not wish have babies without the use of condoms (and other contraceptive methods), then please read on.
Natural Family Planning is defined as “Methods of achieving or avoiding pregnancy by observing the natural signs and symptoms of the fertile and infertile phases of menstrual cycles in women”. There are many methods of doing so, such as calendar rhythm method, standard day method, basal body temperature method, Billings Ovulation Method (BOM), FAF-OM, Creighton model method, symptom-thermal method, 2-day method, technological approaches (PERSONA and CLEARPLAN), Marquette model method, and lactation-amenorrhea method. -Lecture notes, Reproductive System, Semester 5, BPharm (Hons)-
I highlighted BOM because it was what we have been trained on. For your information, BOM is very reliable comparing to other methods, with the success rate of more than 99% in avoiding pregnancies. Besides that, it also helped a lot of sub-fertile couples to achieve pregnancies ALL OVER THE WORLD… Great salute to Dr. John Billings and his wife- Dr. Evelyn Billings.
Well, we have been charting different women’s menstrual cycles in these 3 days, with variable length of cycles and also the pattern of discharge. For more information on BOM, please click HERE to proceed to Chi Fei’s blog. He has written a thorough overview on BOM. =)
Something worth to mention is that the food served was NICE!!! Everyday we will have a tea-break and breakfast in the morning, lunch buffet and another tea-break in the afternoon. I guess I can easily gain weight provided the programme last for 1 month. Ha-ha. 