In Senegal, Women Count Beads as Contraception

[gam197]

unfpa.org/news/news.cfm?ID=1111

Ourousse’s own husband works in the Senegalese capital Dakar during the week. “It is difficult if I am on the white beads during the weekend, when my husband is home,” she says. Nevertheless, he fully supports of her use of CycleBeads.

 

[Spirithound]

Better title: In Senegal, Women Count Beads to Aid in Natural Family Planning

 

[consumedconvert]

Better title: In Senegal, Women Count Beads to Aid in Natural Family Planning

Indeed. I wonder if my wife would like beads…

 

[Spirithound]

Indeed. I wonder if my wife would like beads…

I think that would be a really nice gift, although perhaps the city boy in me can’t help but think that a calendar is more reliable for keeping track

 

[deb1]

Isn’t this just the rhythm method?

 

[Holly3278]

Is the beads a form of natural family planning that is approved by the Catholic Church?

 

[gam197]

In third world countries where thermometers may be scarce, often they use the Billings methods which is essentially checking mucus and the cervix.

I hope there are more instruction than just giving them the beads. It does seem questionable especially coming from the United Nations?

 

[Mirdath]

Is the beads a form of natural family planning that is approved by the Catholic Church?

I can’t think of why it wouldn’t be fine by the Vatican (with all the usual caveats about intent and so on), any more than counting days on your fingers would be. It’s a calendar, it just doesn’t look like a sheet of paper with a numbered grid. I know I’ve seen threads raving about much more complicated and, dare I say it, artificial methods like LadyComp (which I understand to be an electronic calendar with a thermometer stuck on it or something like that ).

 

[mmyers]

In third world countries where thermometers may be scarce, often they use the Billings methods which is essentially checking mucus and the cervix.

I hope there are more instruction than just giving them the beads. It does seem questionable especially coming from the United Nations?

I think that it said that it came from Georgetown ( a Catholic university, whatever that may mean)…but I know that they have done some positive studies on the rhythm method, so maybe this is just a result of those studies.