Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Family planning

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Postpartum and postabortion contraception

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Immediate postabortal insertion of intrauterine devices
  • Immediate post-partum insertion of intrauterine devices
  • Education for contraceptive use by women after childbirth
  • Combined hormonal versus nonhormonal versus progestin-only contraception in lactation

South Africa

• Maternal Care Manual - Perinatal Education Programme
  • Family planning after pregnancy [2006]

United States of America

• Academy of BreastFeeding Medicine
  • Contraception during breastfeeding [2005]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Update to CDC's U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2010: Revised Recommendations for the Use of Contraceptive Methods During the Postpartum Period [2011]

WHO

• WHO Reproductive Health Library
  • Immediate postpartum insertion for intrauterine devices [2010]
  • Combined hormonal versus nonhormonal versus progestin-only contraception in lactation [2009]
  • Immediate postabortion insertion of intrauterine devices [2005]
  • Education for contraceptive use by women after childbirth [2003]

• World Health Organization
  • Technical consultation on hormonal contraceptive use during lactation and effects on the newborn : summary report, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 October 2008 [2010]
  • Combined hormonal contraceptive use during the postpartum period: 26 January 2010, Geneva, Switzerland: statement [2010]
  • Progestogen-only contraceptive use during lactation and its effects on the neonate [2009]

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• Guidelines
  • Postpartum (puerperium)
  • Induced abortion
  • Family planning, contraception