:: Article: Awareness of Family Planning Methods among Pregnant Women
:: Author(s): Ashwini Bhalerao, Mandakini Purandare, Ajit Mehta
:: Keyword : Awareness of Family Planning Methods among Pregnant Women

:: SUMMARY : - : Two hundred lower middle class pregnant women were inter-viewed regarding their medical, family planning and socio-economic aspects. It was found that 92% women had never used any contraceptive method in their life. The concept and importance of spacing of births was not at all clear to them. They had reduced family planning to only two procedures-MTP and female sterilisation. 29% women did not desire to have present pregnancy; but still had not used any contraceptive method to prevent unwanted conception. There was reluctance to use IUCD in future due to misconceptions and fear of side effects. These findings emphasize the necessity of premarital, antenatal and postnatal counselling on temporary family planning methods and the need to develop the concept of spacing of births. We have to go a long way to make the lower socio-economic population accept family planning as a way of life

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