Couples should consider the following factors, maturity, financial support, accommodation, changing lifestyles.
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Maturity
Couples need to be mature enough to cope with parenthood and to be able to make decisions together over matters such as discipline and education.
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Financial support
couple are to maintain an adequate standard of living, essential equipment, for example a cot and clothing, must also be taken into account, as well as the cost of feeding and providing for a growing child.
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Accommodation
A child needs to be provided with a clean, safe environment within a warm and secure home.
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Changing lifestyles
Couples need to consider the role each of them will take after the birth of the baby.
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Choosing when to have a baby
With the wide variety of methods of contraception available, couples can choose when to begin a family and how many children they would like
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Pre-conceptual care
the care of the mother-to be’s health before conception must be considered. Folic acid should be taken by a woman who hopes to become pregnant and during the early months of the pregnancy.
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Genetic counselling
Many couples who are planning for a baby may require genetic counselling to seek advice on the risk of disease being passed on from parents to children.
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Inherited diseases
Some diseases are caused by faulty genes which can be passed down to generations of the same family: cystic fibrosis—thick mucus blocks the lungs, haemophilia—the blood fails to clot, thalassaemia-–a type of ana
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Conception
When a couple have sexual intercourse, the sperm from the father may fertilize an egg from the mother and a baby will be conceived.
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The female reproductive system.
parts of the reproductive system and the functions
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Menstruation
The average menstrual cycle takes 28 days to complete. The purpose of the cycle is to produce an egg and to prepare the uterus to receive the egg if it is fertilized.
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The menstrual cycle
Menstruation: day 1 – 5 Lining of the uterus grows: day 6 – 15 Ovulation occurs around day 14 Uterus is ready to receive an egg: day 16 – 21 Lining of the uterus starts to break down: day 22 – 28.
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The male reproductive system
parts of the reproductive system and the functions
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Card 2
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Couples need to be mature enough to cope with parenthood and to be able to make decisions together over matters such as discipline and education.
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Maturity
Card 3
Front
couple are to maintain an adequate standard of living, essential equipment, for example a cot and clothing, must also be taken into account, as well as the cost of feeding and providing for a growing child.
Back
Card 4
Front
A child needs to be provided with a clean, safe environment within a warm and secure home.
Back
Card 5
Front
Couples need to consider the role each of them will take after the birth of the baby.
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