What Can NFP do for You?
- Less than 5% of couples who use Natural Family Planning have marriages which end in divorce.
- Natural Family Planning is 97-99% effective when used to avoid a pregnancy and is also effective when used to achieve a pregnancy.
- Couples who use Natural Family Planning report it improves communication and adds SPICE to the relationship.
What is NFP and How does It Work?
Barring any medical problems, men are always fertile. Women altern1ate between periods of fertility and infertility. By cooperating with this cycle, couples effectively achieve or avoid pregnancy.
Billings Ovulation Method and Creighton Model Services
Women observe the external mucus that is produced when estrogen is alerting them to approaching ovulation. When progesterone is high, cervical crypts produce a thick mucus that is very difficult for sperm to penetrate and usually not visible externally.
Sympto-Thermal
Couples are taught to observe mucus and cervix signs, which signal the approach of ovulation, and the temperature sign which typically accompanies ovulation.
Marquette Method
Established in 2002, the St. Louis University Nursing Center for Fertility Education, provides professional education, research and classes in natural family planning (NFP). Included in the Marquette program: Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor, a device used at home to measure homone levels, plus instruction in observation of cervical mucus or basal body temperature.
