November 19, 2009

What do you know about Cyclebeads?

  

What are they?
CycleBeads is an easy way to plan or prevent pregnancy naturally.  By using the color-coded string of beads, women can track their cycle and know if she is on a day when pregnancy is likely or not.  Each bead represents a day of a woman's cycle and the color helps a woman to determine if she is likely to be fertile that day.

CycleBeads are popular among women because they are a completely natural birth control method with no side effects that is effective.  Many women don't want a birth control method involving hormones or surgical procedures - so CycleBeads is the perfect solution.

So how do they work?
The day a woman starts her period she puts the rubber ring on the red bead.  Each day she moves the ring one bead, always in the direction of the arrow.  When the ring is on the read bead or a dark bead, there is a very low likelihood of pregnancy, so she can have intercourse on these days without getting pregnant.  When the ring is on a white bead, days 8 through 19, there is a high likelihood of getting pregnant if a woman has unprotected intercourse.

CycleBeads utilizes the Standard Days Methodof tracking a woman's menstrual cycle.  This means that CycleBeads works best for women with regular menstrual cycles that are between 26 and 32 days long.

How effective is it?
In studies conducted by the Institute for Reproductive Health, CycleBeads was found to be more than 95% effective.  However, the study also found that women who do not keep careful track of their cycle days or have unprotected intercourse on days 8 through 19 of their cycles are much more likely to get pregnant.

In addition to preventing pregnancy, CycleBeads can help women who are trying to get pregnant as well.  The research on which CycleBeads are based identifies the fertile window - the time during which most women could get pregnant - as days 8 through 19 of the menstrual cycle. 

How can I get CycleBeads?

Members of the CFHC Cooperative Purchasing Programcan purchase Cyclebeads at a discounted rate.  Contact Brittany Sovran at sovranb@cfhc.org for more information on how to become a member.

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August 11, 2008

Health Education News from CFHC

Welcome to this edition of CFHC's Health Education E-News featuring information about the Standard Days method and how to make Cyclebeads part of your practice. Know someone who would like reading Health Education E-News? Just press resend on your browser and type in their email address. Want to make sure you keep getting Health Education E-News? Click here to sign up. Read the New Article "From the Experts" Making the Standard Days Method (SDM)® and CycleBeads Part of Your Practice The Standard Days Method (SDM)® is a new, fertility awareness-based method of family planning developed through scientific analysis of the fertile time in the woman’s menstrual cycle. [Read on...] Newly updated What is Right for You booklet now available This ever popular booklet for clients features 5 new birth control methods, including Cyclebeads. Check out the revised version in English and Spanish. [Read on...] The Online Database is Up and Running Again! Looking for useful health education materials for your clients? Use our online database to search for our evaluations of hundreds of health education materials. Check out our recently updated online database. [Read on...] Take part in one of these upcoming trainings and conferences! Save the dates for the Women’s Health Update This annual CME conference offers up-to-date information and skills training to clinicians each fall. Save the dates for WHU: October 15-17, 2008 at the San Francisco Airport Marriot. [Read on...] Family Planning Health Worker Certification Course Don’t miss the Family Planning Health Worker Certification Course. Register for one of our fall sessions. [Read on...] To subscribe to CFHC’s Health Education E-News click here.  Technical problems?  Call us at 1-800-428-5438.  CFHC respects your privacy.  We will not sell or otherwise disclose your email address to any third party.

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