Natural Family Planning
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lnauertzcatholicdos.orgAssociate Director of Evangelization & Missionary Discipleship
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Natural Family Planning (NFP) is the general title for the scientific, natural, and moral methods of family planning that can help married couples either achieve or postpone pregnancy. NFP methods are based on the observation of the naturally occurring signs and symptoms of the fertile and infertile phases of a woman's menstrual cycle. No drugs, devices, or surgical procedures are used to avoid pregnancy. Since the methods of NFP respect the love-giving (unitive) and life-giving (procreative) nature of the conjugal act, they support God's design for married love!
People of every generation and of every culture have understood that the marriage between a man and a woman is the central pro-child social institution and the rock of the natural family. The union of husband and wife is the awesome call to participate with God in the incredible adventure of creating a new human being, welcoming that child into the world, and forming him or her on the cornerstone of marriage. Watch the video and find out why.
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What to expect
Fortunately, options for learning NFP have become widely available. Please see the links below to learn more about these options.
The Diocese of Superior has partnered with Northland FertilityCare to offer Creighton NFP classes to any registered parishioner in the diocese!
Hear one young person’s experience with the Creighton Model here.
FEMM (Fertility Education and Medical Management) is a comprehensive, science-based program designed to help women track their hormonal health, understand their fertility, and monitor their overall health.
To receive training in this method, go to Created on Purpose where certified FEMM instructor Jenna Robach, a joyful Catholic from the Rice Lake area, will help you “understand the body God gave you.”
Online Courses: This course allows you to learn on your own schedule, from anywhere with internet access. It is broken up into short, video-based modules with interactive exercises, and is a complete course in NFP.
What is the Billings Ovulation Method®?
The Billings Ovulation Method® is a simple yet scientific method of Natural Family Planning. To learn more, please explore our web site or visit http://www.billings.life/ for more of the scientific basis behind the Billings Ovulation Method®.
Contraception, Why Not? By Dr. Janet Smith -
natural Family Planning Apps
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Read Your BodyThis app is used by observing bodily signs of fertility or infertility, recording these signs in the app, and then learning how to interpret the signs given by the body. All of the data in Read Your Body is stored only on devices, to ensure privacy. Although this app is not free, it is fairly inexpensive, costing $2.69 a month and $20.99 annually.
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CycleProGoThis app is an electronic charting app that can be accessed from multiple devices. It is the official Couple to Couple League app and is meant to be used as a tool for the Sympto-Thermal Method of Natural Family Planning.
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FEMMThis app is used to track fertility and infertility by learning to understand and monitor hormonal activity naturally. It is a free app.
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Fertilitycare AppThe FertilityCare App can be integrated into the Creighton Model FertilityCare System. This app includes check-ins with a FertilityCare practitioner. While the FertilityCare App is available to any practitioner affiliated with FertilityCare Centers of America, the only other place this app is available is from the St. Paul VI Institute’s Publication Department.
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KindaraAlthough Kindara is not an explicitly Catholic NFP app, it can be used to track fertility by taking a woman’s basal body temperature and by a woman’s cervical fluid. The app can also be synced to a blue-tooth based Wink BBT thermometer.
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TempDropTempdrop sells fertility tracking armbands that connect to an app. The armband is worn during sleep to take the basal body temperature, and then the temperature as well as other symptoms can be filled out in the app. While this app is effective on its own, Tempdrop can also be used at the same time with an NFP method of choice.