In addition to the lower typical use effectiveness rate, some disadvantages of
fertility awareness as contraception include:
I'm sharing a special solo episode all about using
fertility awareness as your primary birth control method.
She is also the founder of the FertilityFriday Podcast — a weekly radio show where she conducts in depth interviews with professionals working in the field of
fertility awareness as well as professionals who specialize in helping women to restore their fertility primarily through natural or holistic methods of care.
Give books about
Fertility Awareness as gifts.
Not exact matches
As part of National (In) Fertility Awareness Week (2 - 8 Nov), Steph Cottam shares her story of struggling with infertility as a Christia
As part of National (In)
Fertility Awareness Week (2 - 8 Nov), Steph Cottam shares her story of struggling with infertility
as a Christia
as a Christian.
As the Church teaches: «A healthcare professional's role may be to remove obstacles to conception, restore
fertility, assist in
fertility awareness, advise, comfort, listen, guide — but never to violate the exclusive prerogative of wives and husbands to become mother and father only through each other.»
According to Mayo Clinic, 24 percent of women who use
fertility awareness - based methods to prevent pregnancy — such
as the basal body temperature method — for one year will get pregnant.
I have been teaching this method, known
as «
Fertility Awareness» for over 20 years.
This view of the menstrual cycle has found its own terminology in the movement
as «
fertility awareness» and «body literacy.»
Many women, especially those who are actively trying to get pregnant and having some trouble — or who are using certain
fertility awareness methods — track other
fertility indicators
as well.
Also called
fertility awareness, natural family planning (NFP) is an umbrella term for various ways to forecast the time in your cycle when you are most likely to get pregnant — such
as monitoring your daily temperature, checking for changes in cervical mucus and counting the days since your last period.
As part of a
fertility awareness - based method of birth control, on the other hand, BBT charting has a success rate of just 76 %, according to Planned Parenthood.
What's it really like to use «
fertility awareness»
as birth control?
In addition to her work
as a
Fertility Awareness Educator (FAE), Ilene has contributed to several books about fertility awareness and given numerous presentations to the general public as well as in professional
Fertility Awareness Educator (FAE), Ilene has contributed to several books about fertility awareness and given numerous presentations to the general public as well as in professional
Awareness Educator (FAE), Ilene has contributed to several books about
fertility awareness and given numerous presentations to the general public as well as in professional
fertility awareness and given numerous presentations to the general public as well as in professional
awareness and given numerous presentations to the general public
as well
as in professional settings.
Since then she has been serving
as a resource and spreading the word about
fertility awareness in the Boston, Massachusetts area, and also is currently the Chair of the AFAP Membership Committee.
Your experience
as someone who uses a
Fertility Awareness - Based Method (FABM), but has not been trained to teach it, definitely has value!
However you choose to integrate
Fertility Awareness into your practice, we encourage you to join AFAP
as an Ally member.
As mentioned above, when used correctly the
fertility awareness method has been shown to be 99.4 % effective, making it a formidable alternative to hormonal contraceptives.
She was trained
as a Justisse Body Literacy Advocate through Justisse Healthworks for Women, an organization that teaches the
Fertility Awareness Method to women, and offers professional training for women to become
Fertility Awareness Instructors.
Fertility Awareness offered on an
as needed basis (ie one can be scheduled with enough participants).
You can read more about them
as well
as the
Fertility Awareness Method, if you are interested.
As a method of contraception,
Fertility Awareness is not for everyone.
Sexuality and
Fertility Awareness (FA) education
as part of «body literacy» is a core area of Tathapi's work, involving not only bodily experience of the reproductive system but also the socio - cultural and political experience of women's health.
The lack of uniform standards has been just
as confusing for people intent on becoming highly qualified
Fertility Awareness Educators (FAEs).
The Justisse Method was developed back in 1986
as a «standardized system for learning
fertility awareness», therefore facilitating the opportunity for women to explore, understand and manage both their reproductive and birth control needs.
The rhythm method,
as part of the
fertility awareness method (FAM), is a birth control strategy that involves tracking your body's natural
fertility...
Fertility awareness methods don't work
as well
as other types of birth control because they can be difficult to use.
For someone having menstrual cycles,
fertility awareness involves monitoring cycle signs and symptoms — predominantly cervical fluid and basal body temperature, though these are often supported or «cross referenced» by tracking other signs
as well — in order to determine when a person is approaching ovulation and / or to confirm when ovulation has already taken place.
However, for many people,
fertility awareness is useful knowledge to possess, whether it's used
as part of a contraception plan or not.
If
fertility awareness has such a low typical use rate, why would people choose it
as a method of contraception?
Some have built on this line of reasoning by suggesting that oral contraceptives should be given over-the-counter status too,
as a replacement for comprehensive insurance coverage of contraception.1 Similarly, social conservatives seeking to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs such
as Medicaid have argued that less - specialized health care providers, such
as federally qualified health centers, could fill the void this would create.2 And in October, a leaked White House memo recommended that funding for the Title X national family planning program should be cut by at least half and suggested that money could be better used for teaching adolescents about
fertility awareness methods exclusively.3
In 2014, 25 % of female contraceptive users relied on oral contraceptives and 15 % relied on condoms
as their most effective method (see figure 1).4, 5 That means that six in 10 female contraceptive users relied on other methods: female sterilization or a male partner's sterilization; hormonal or copper IUDs; hormonal methods including the injectable, the ring, the patch and the implant; and behavioral methods, such
as withdrawal and
fertility awareness — based methods.