{"id":3560,"date":"2007-03-26T21:35:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T21:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/26\/3560"},"modified":"2007-03-26T21:35:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T21:35:53","slug":"modified-rhythm-method-shown-to-be-as-effective-as-the-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2007\/03\/modified-rhythm-method-shown-to-be-as-effective-as-the-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Modified Rhythm Method Shown to Be as Effective as the Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/pregnant-belly.jpg\" alt=\"pregnant belly\" class=\"pic_100px\" \/>Any reliable birth control option that doesn&#8217;t require pumping your body with synthetic hormones resulting in a permanently grotty mood, lowered libido and health problems later on, gets a big thumbs up from me.<!--more--> For those couples who use condoms all the time as a hormone free method but who wish for more physical intimacy, this method could be the holy grail &#8212; condom free fun for two weeks each month.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The World Health Organization reports that on average, women practicing periodic abstinence for a year have a one in four chance of becoming pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>A new German study, however, has found that, when practiced correctly, <strong>a method of periodic abstinence known as the sympto-thermal method (STM) leads to an unintended pregnancy rate of only 0.6 percent annually.<\/strong> This rate is comparable with that of unintended pregnancies in women who use birth control pills, the most popular method of contraception in the U.S. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&#038;articleID=80D25E2D-E7F2-99DF-39F66842EB6BE952&#038;pageNumber=1&#038;catID=4\" rel=\"external\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goaskalice.columbia.edu\/0741.html\" rel=\"external\">Go Ask Alice! Natural Birth Control<\/a><br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irh.org\/resources-SymptothermalMethod.htm\" rel=\"external\">Getting started on the STM<\/a> (includes charts you can print out and use)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any reliable birth control option that doesn&#8217;t require pumping your body with synthetic hormones resulting in a permanently grotty mood, lowered libido and health problems later on, gets a big thumbs up from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}