This post explains why the new Pope will not overturn the Church's teaching on birth control.

Empowering couples in sharing responsibility for family planning

We’ve talked a lot in our previous blogs about the birth control pill , and for good reason - there’s certainly lots to talk about ! However, there is an almost equally popular form of contraception - the IUD - that you may be wondering about.  What is an IUD? IUD stands for “intrauterine device”. It’s a small T shaped device that’s placed by a doctor in a woman’s cervix. The cervix is the opening from the vagina into the uterus. The device is made to stay in the cervix for u

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It’s no secret that there are a lot of particular and personal questions a FertilityCare Practitioner asks a client during a follow-up....

This is a question I get all so often, most especially in the Catholic world. In case you aren’t familiar, normally when people ask me if Natural Family Planning can be used with a ‘ contraceptive mindset ’ or ‘contraceptively,’ what they’re really asking is if NFP can be used with bad intentions. Or, if NFP can be used faithfully by a Catholic to avoid a pregnancy. Sometimes I get asked by people with a half raised skeptical eyebrow, others with a curiosity of how NFP actual