The need for Family Planning

Family planning is a programme aimed at helping families especially couples to plan for their children in manners of spacing and numbers. Family planning today has been given more attention to than the olden days when people just give birth anyhow without adequate planning. Family planning helps in many ways that cannot be overemphasized. Every clinic or hospitals today always have a family planning unit or section whereby matters relating to families and children are being treated and managed.

Many people believe that family planning is only related to the women alone which is not so, it relates to the father or husband also. That's why it is often encouraged that both the husband and the wife go together to the family planning section because there are some questions that are often asked by the practitioners which can be best answered by both. Family planning is in two dimensions, there is one in which people do that is permanent, once you do it you can't give birth again. This is often given to those who have made up their mind not to give birth again. The second one is given ephemerally, that is for a short period of time. So  why do we do family planning?

1. Family planning helps to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Family planning also take care of this issue. There are some people who will tell you that the pregnancy they are carrying is by mistake and it is unwanted, funny right?. Either way, unwanted pregnancies can be averted if there's family planning between the partners. By proper family planning, you know when you want to give birth and when you don't want to. Another thing to note is that it subsequently prevent abortion. An unwanted pregnancy may be aborted or terminated. This may lead to serious complications for the mother. In extreme cases the mother dies sometimes when there is no good doctor to handle the abortion. Family planning prevents all these shortcomings because you won't have to be pregnant talk less of removing it because you did not want it.

2. Helps to regulate the spacing of children. Employing short term family planning will help you to determine and regulate the spacing of your children. Some are so careless that their present baby won't be up to a year before they are pregnant again. Although there are no rules against this, but abnormal spacing of children can harm the mother most especially if the present child is not up to a year before giving birth to another baby again. It can affect the mother physiologically as two babies have to be sharing milk among themselves.

That's why family planning is always employed to take care of this. With adequate family planning, one will know the correct spacing of children that will not harm the mother. In hospital, the family planning practitioners always encourage minimum of three years to give birth again after you have given birth to one initially.

3. Another need for family planning is that it will help the family to know the exact number of children they can afford to give proper care to. Many people today just give birth without having adequate resources to take care of them. But once people go to the hospital, they are given good medical advice relating to giving birth to children they can take proper care of. Sometimes some women are also advised not to give birth to many children because it can affect their health. All these can only be known if you go to the hospital, that's why going to the hospital is always ideal for medical advice.

4. Family planning also prevent unfaithfulness. A wife who has engaged in family planning will not find it difficult to give her husband sex whenever he needs it. It's only women without any family planning that will be denying their husbands sex because they don't want to become pregnant again. But with family planning, this is often averted and the couple can enjoy sex anytime they feel like. This preventing unfaithfulness since there is no denial of sex which can make the husband to look out.

Family planning is good and very affordable as Government has made it easier for everybody. Just go with your wife to the nearest hospital. Family planning helps in lot of ways. Indirectly it helps in population control too.