What Is Family Planning?

 

What Is Family Planning?

Too often, you might hear the words, “family planning” and have a flashback to the days of middle school sex education. What sounds like a bit of a stiff term to define such a life-altering decision is actually a large part of our mission as fertility experts.

Family planning is the process of preparing yourself for getting pregnant in the short and the long-term. It depends on a few things:

• Where you are in your reproductive timeline.
• If you have children already or not.
• If you’re not sure if you want children, but you might want the option in the future.

Whether you’re actively trying to conceive or just beginning to dream about a future family, you’re in the throes of family planning.

Modern medicine has given us the incredible technology to freeze both eggs and embryos, which means family planning services today are a much different landscape than a few decades ago. Your fertility doctor can’t tell you exactly what the best path for your family will be as you choose when and how to have children, but as you begin planning for your family, there are many things you’ll want to consider.

In this guide, we’ll walk through a few of the key parts of family planning, procedures you might choose based on your situation, and how technology has shaped our ability to have the families we’ve dreamed of within reach.