natural family planning

1. 1.

   any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs; coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle

   Broaderbirth control

   Narrowerbasal body temperature method of family planningovulation method of family planningrhythm method of birth control

Questions about natural family planning

What does natural family planning mean?

natural family planning means "any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs; coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle".

Is natural family planning a common word?

natural family planning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.