Family Planning Tool

A hands-on visual tool used by millions of women worldwide, CycleBeads is the original way to identify your fertile days using the Standard Days Method® of family planning. CycleBeads is a color-coded string of beads representing a woman’s menstrual cycle. It helps a woman track her cycle, identify when are fertile days and non-fertile days, and monitor that her cycles are in range for effective use of this family planning method. A woman can plan or prevent pregnancy easily and effectively with this easy to use tool.

How to use CycleBeads

The day a woman starts her period she places the rubber ring on the red bead. Each day she moves the ring one bead forward, always in the direction of the arrow. When the ring is on the red bead or a colored bead, there is very low likelihood of pregnancy, so she can have intercourse on these days without getting pregnant. When the ring is on a white bead – Days 8 through 19 – she is in her fertile period and there is a high likelihood of getting pregnant if a woman has unprotected intercourse. If a woman wants to prevent pregnancy, she should avoid having unprotected intercourse on Days 8 through 19 (days represented by glow-in-the-dark white beads) as this is her potentially fertile period. If a woman wants to achieve a pregnancy, she and her partner should have intercourse during these white bead days as these are days when a woman is most fertile.