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BASIC FACTS ABOUT NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING: THE BILLINGS (MUCUS) METHOD?

During your menstrual cycle your cervix produces mucus that changes from dry to wet and stringy, and then back to dry again. When you know what these changes mean, you can tell when you are likely to be fertile, and can avoid having sex at that time.

How do you use the Billings (Mucus) method?

The Mucus method relies on you noticing changes in the mucus at the opening of your vagina every morning when you wake up. You feel just outside the vaginal opening with your finger and notice if you feel wet or dry. If there is any mucus on your finger you can see what it looks like. Depending on what the mucus looks and feels like, you can tell whether you are fertile or not Then you know whether it is safe to have sex that day.

There are three different types of mucus to check for. As soon as your period finishes, your vaginal opening will feel dry, and any mucus will be thick, flaky and sticky. Around the time that you are ovulating, your vagina will feel wet, and the mucus will be clear, watery and stretchy, like egg white. After you ovulate, the mucus will be cloudy, thicker, and sticky again, and your vagina will feel dry around the opening. With this method you can presume you are safe three days after you last feel the slippery wet mucus.

There are several things you must do to use this method as safely as possible. Firstly, in the early part of your cycle before ovulation, you can only have intercourse every second day because if there is any semen from the man in your vagina you would not be able to tell if there is any mucus there. Secondly, you can only have intercourse on a day when you have felt dry in the morning. Thirdly, if you have any bleeding or spotting during the cycle you must treat that as the same as fertile mucus.

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