Marriage, Family Planning, and Health

Author: Cheng Linnan
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: This booklet is based on our years of experience in reproductive health and women's health care, and is written to enhance the awareness of premarital medical health among young couples about to marry, as well as to provide essential knowledge on sexual health, fertility regulation, and eugenics. The book begins with "Women and Men" and "Love and Marriage," offering a detailed introduction to medical knowledge of mate selection, the importance of premarital medical examinations, the main content, items, and possible outcomes of such examinations. It also critiques and analyzes nine common misconceptions about premarital medical examinations prevalent in society. Additionally, the book provides comprehensive guidance on how newlyweds can achieve satisfying sexual lives in their shared world during the honeymoon phase; how to choose appropriate contraceptive methods to avoid induced abortions before their first child; how to master the key principles of conception and successfully get pregnant when desired; how to enjoy a pleasant pregnancy and childbirth period, ensuring the safe arrival of their little baby; and how to build a more harmonious and happy life in the postpartum "core family." Finally, the book introduces the advancements and challenges in human reproduction. This book is suitable for readers with secondary education, as well as medical students and grassroots maternal and child health care, family planning professionals, who may also find it valuable as a reference. May this book become a loyal friend to every newly formed family, accompanying them through beautiful times.