Why family planning is important for you?

If you are trying to adopt family planning, Dr. Parul Jain, the best gynecologist in Gurgaon, can guide you very well. Read below all about the importance and tips of family planning.

What is family planning?

It involves having the wanted number of children and when you choose to have them with effective and safe advanced methods. Appropriate birth spacing involves childbirth 3-5 years apart as optimal for the health of the child, mother, and father. 

Why family planning is important for you?

Family planning comes with numerous benefits for the children, mothers, fathers, and thereby their families.

For the children:

• They will receive all the care, love, security, and attention they deserve. 

• Adequate birth spacing will ensure lower infant mortality risks since conceiving consecutively deprives the next baby of the mother’s sufficient nutrients.

• Planned pregnancies with mindfulness of sexual health lower the risks of having a disabled baby. Healthy kids are borne of healthy mothers.

For the mother:

• Allows her enough time for regaining her health after childbirth in case of birth spacing.

• Provides her with sufficient opportunity and time to pay attention to and love her kids and spouse. 

• Provides her with more time for her advancements and family.

• Provides her with adequate time for treatment and healing if the mother is affected by a disease.

• Prevents adolescent pregnancies and thus takes care of her health.

• Most importantly, the use of suitable pills and contraceptives for avoiding unintended pregnancies prevents sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) like AIDS, Syphilis, etc.  

For the father:

• Reduces the responsibility or burden to support the family.

• Allows him to supply his kids their necessities like good shelter, food, education, and a better future.

• Provides him with enough time for his progress and family.

• If he suffers from a disease, he would get sufficient time to be treated and recover. 

• Prevented from sexually transmitted diseases by using sexual barriers like condoms.

Family planning tips

• Abstinence

Abstinence from random sexual activity is the primary way. Having planned intercourse being mindful of the sexual health of both the partners is highly necessary to avoid risks like sexually transmitted diseases or consecutive childbirths. 

• Sexual barriers

These include spermicides, contraceptive sponges, cervical caps, diaphragms, and female and male condoms. They can prevent the couple from HIV and STDs.

• Hormonal methods

Try regulating or preventing ovulation to prevent an undesired pregnancy. These methods including implantable rods, intrauterine devices, vaginal rings, skin patches, contraceptive pills, and injections also thicken cervical mucus. They help in regularising cycles, decreasing blood loss, decreasing dysmenorrhoea, and benefitting in various disorders like endometriosis, PCOD, etc.

• Intrauterine devices

These include tiny T-shaped tools for you to insert into your uterus for avoiding pregnancy.

• Permanent contraceptive methods

Permanent surgical procedures can allow long-term contraception if your family is complete and you want no more kids. Here, we may perform vasectomy by cutting and tying your partner’s vas deferens (tubes) or tubal ligation for closing both of your fallopian tubes. However, remember that these methods are irreversible.