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Should spontaneous or timed intercourse guide couples trying to conceive?
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ziekenhuis Walcheren, Vlissingen, The Netherlands
Present address: 78, boulevard Tixador, 66140 Canet en Roussillon, France. E-mail: herman.snick@freesbee.fr
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Sir,
Natural family planning (NFP) methods to conceive, based on timed intercourse in the fertile window, are promoted as reducing the time to pregnancy and improving the chances of conception.
This view is promoted in the lay press and in a multitude of websites and was recently put forward in this Journal (Brosens et al., 2004
; Gnoth et al., 2003![]()