In my previous post, I talked about Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM) with detailed explanations, in this post, I am going to address some of the most commonly ask questions about conception methods.

 
Most of these questions are subjects of discussion among Married women. There are some of them,
          1. How likely is a woman to become pregnant when she has sex during monthly period? Click here for answer.
This is a frequently asked question among school girls, the answer to this question is yes, and I am going to explain how it happens.
During monthly period, the chance of pregnancy is low but not zero. 
Bleeding dose not interfere with pregnancy, it does not promote or prevent pregnancy. The chance of pregnancy is lowest during the first few days of the bleeding, for example, on day 2 of the cycle, the chance of getting pregnant is less than 1%, but as the day progresses, the chance increase.
Whether or not the period continues as some girls menstrual cycle last less than three days, the chances increase and continue to rise until ovulation.
This is why fertility awareness methods that relies on cervical secretion (mucus discharge from the vagina), advise against unprotected sex during period as secretions cannot be detected at this time but there is a high risk of pregnancy. 
However, after ovulation, the chance of pregnancy begin to drop steadily
          2. Can only Educated couple use FAM?
The answer is NO, couples regardless of educational background can use FAM, the only thing required here is the interest of the couple in the method they have chosen, thus, they must be motivated and well trained and committed to avoiding unprotected sex during the fertile period. 
         3. Are fertility awareness methods reliable?
The methods are reliable but, a method that work for one couple might not work for another couple, Also, using spermicidal or withdrawal are not advisable during fertile period.
 3. How long will the use of other methods or assistance be needed for each FAM?
The length of time or number of days varies based on the woman’s cycle length. The average number of days a woman could be considered fertile, and would need to abstain or use another method, with each method is: standard days method. 12 days; two day method, 13 days; symptothermal method, 17 days; ovulation method, 18 days.
4. What is new about the fertility awareness method, the standard days method and the two day method?
These new fertility awareness methods are easier to use than some of the older ones. They are more appealing ad effective. They are similar to older methods because they rely on the same ways of judging when a woman might be fertile by keeping tracks of the days of cycle for the two day method.  So far, there are few studies of these methods. A clinical trial found that as the standard day method was commonly used by women who has most cycles between 26 to 32 days long, there were 12 pregnancies per 100 women over the first year of sue in a clinical trial of the two day method as it was commonly used, there were 14 pregnancies per 100 women over the first year of use. This rate is based on those who remained in the study. Women who detected secretions on fewer than 5 days on more than 14 days in each cycle were excluded.
How Effective is
 Effectiveness of FAM depends on the user: Risk of pregnancy is greatest when the man does not withdraw his penis from the vagina before ejaculating.

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