Chapter 10: Special Instructions and Applications

coming off birth control pills and learning fertility awareness, withdrawal bleeding after stopping the pill, anovulation after discontinuing hormonal contraception, teaching natural family planning to former pill users, post-tubal ligation syndrome symptoms and treatment, breastfeeding and return of fertility, total versus partial breastfeeding fertility guidelines, dry days and mucus patches while nursing, lactational amenorrhea method effectiveness, first 56 days postpartum infertility window, variable return of peak-type mucus during weaning, double peak cycles caused by stress, split peak versus double peak distinction, premenopausal cycle irregularity and hot flashes, early ovulation detection during menstruation, infertility charting and cycle targeting for testing, postcoital test timing with cervical mucus, mid-luteal progesterone draw peak plus 7, limited mucus cycles and inadequate estrogen, dry cycles with no cervical mucus discharge, premenstrual spotting and corpus luteum dysfunction, post-peak non-peak mucus yellow stamp instruction, seminal fluid instruction after intercourse, arousal fluid versus cervical mucus differentiation, post-abortion fertility return and charting, recurrent miscarriage grief support and charting, adolescent cycle charting for medical reasons, teaching chastity and body literacy to single women, continuous discharge from cervical eversion, pasty cloudy discharge post-peak management