Reproductive life plan
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A reproductive life plan is a plan
for when, how and whether to have children. The plan is based on a person's priorities and goals with regards to life and children. The plan may take into account their resources, commitments and values. Reproductive life plan serves as a basis for acting to help realize the plan. For instance: it can help in selecting appropriate birth control
if have sex before ready to have children; or seeking Pre-conception counseling
and care, to improve health of mother
and child. Family planning
professionals can help in formulating and implementing a reproductive life plan.
People often delay having children to gathering necessary resources, to gather social support, until career or other goals are met, or to improve health outcomes for mother and child.
Although many people who desire children do so through childbirth
, some adopt children, become foster parents, or use other arrangements to achieve their desires (co-parenting, surrogacy
).
Many people decide not to have children (childfree
).
Plan
A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with timing and resources, used to achieve an objective. See also strategy. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal...
for when, how and whether to have children. The plan is based on a person's priorities and goals with regards to life and children. The plan may take into account their resources, commitments and values. Reproductive life plan serves as a basis for acting to help realize the plan. For instance: it can help in selecting appropriate birth control
Birth control
Birth control is an umbrella term for several techniques and methods used to prevent fertilization or to interrupt pregnancy at various stages. Birth control techniques and methods include contraception , contragestion and abortion...
if have sex before ready to have children; or seeking Pre-conception counseling
Pre-conception counseling
Pre-conception counseling is based on the medical theory that all women of child-bearing years should be pre-screened for health and risk potentials before attempting to become pregnant...
and care, to improve health of mother
Maternal health
Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. It encompasses the health care dimensions of family planning, preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care in order to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality.Preconception care can include...
and child. Family planning
Family planning
Family planning is the planning of when to have children, and the use of birth control and other techniques to implement such plans. Other techniques commonly used include sexuality education, prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections, pre-conception counseling and...
professionals can help in formulating and implementing a reproductive life plan.
People often delay having children to gathering necessary resources, to gather social support, until career or other goals are met, or to improve health outcomes for mother and child.
Although many people who desire children do so through childbirth
Childbirth
Childbirth is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus...
, some adopt children, become foster parents, or use other arrangements to achieve their desires (co-parenting, surrogacy
Surrogacy
Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman carries and delivers a child for another couple or person. This woman may be the child's genetic mother , or she may carry the pregnancy to delivery after having an embryo, to which she has no genetic relationship whatsoever, transferred to her uterus...
).
Many people decide not to have children (childfree
Childfree
Childfree also known as "voluntary childlessness" is a form of childlessness. The term was coined in the English language late in the 20th century and is used to describe people who have made a personal decision not to have children. The term childfree also describes domestic and urban...
).