What are the kinds of family planning?

When you say "family planning," do you mean natural family planning, as in non-hormonal, non-barrier types of contraception? If so, then you will be monitoring your ovulation to avoid sex during that time to avoid pregnancy and then to have sex during that time to increase your chances of getting pregnant: 1. Temperature: You take your basal body temperature each morning with a standard oral thermometer before getting out of bed each day and/or smoking your first cigarette. Ovulation will cause your temperature to rise .4-.8 degrees F, so you will need to write it down each day to know when the spike occurs. 2. Cervical mucus: Each day you will need to reach insider your vagina and examine your cervical mucus. Most days your mucus will be thick and cloudy, but when you are ovulating your mucus will thin out and become stretchy (to help sperm swim). Keep a journal of your daily mucus so you will know when a change has occurred. 3. Cycle Beads: You can buy "cycle beads" which is a sort-of necklace of brown and white beads. The first day of your period is marked with a red bead and you start the "marker," a circular indicator that you will move each day with an arrow on it to remind you which direction to move it, then each day after the first day of your period you will move the marker one bed over. You will move through a series of brown beads, those are the days it is "safe" to have sex. Then you will move into a series of white beads, and these are the days you are most likely to get pregnant. It is imperative that you 1) avoid sexual intercourse if you are trying to avoid pregnancy or 2) use a back-up method like a condom or a diaphragm. Then once you are past the white pills, it is once again safe to have sex as you are past ovulation. 4. Breast feeding: This method works so long as you breast feed around the clock every four hours. You won't know when this method stops working, but it ceases to work when you ovulate for the first time postpartum. General guidelines say this is about 6 months, but since it varies so widely it is very important to not rely on this method to avoid another pregnancy. 5. Pee-on-a-Stick Ovulation Kits: These work similar to a pregnancy test where you pee on a stick. The stick measure the level of your LH, luteinizing hormone. Although LH is always present in your urine, it spikes during ovulation. If the stick comes back with a positive signal in the window, you'll know you should either have sex then to get pregnant or avoid it at all costs to avoid pregnancy. 6. Calendar method: Check this one out on www.plannetparenthood.com. It wants you to put your shortest cycle length and your longest cycle length into a simple addition/subtraction type equation. Then from this number you will know what days during your cycle to avoid having sex. If you're serious about using natural family planning as your method of contraception, it's imperative your partner is as committed to it as you are. It's also a good idea to use multiple strategies to reduce/increase the effectiveness as desire. Good luck!