Here are 5 things you should know about menstrual cycles. Actually, I think everyone should know these!

Trusting in God is hard. For me, at least. It can feel easier to trust in our own plans and desires for our lives, rather than in God's. While God's plans are better than ours, it doesn't mean they will fulfill all of our earthly desires. Today, I want to address how we can grow in trust in God while avoiding pregnancy. Some people will say that trusting God and his plans for your family means always trying to conceive or trying to whatever . While some couples may be called

Breaking up is hard to do—especially with something as ingrained as the birth control pill. But more and more women are doing just that!

There are so many NFP terms that I have decided to create a part 2 to explain more NFP jargon. Let's jump in!

There are many terms and acronyms associated with Natural Family Planning. For starters, you've got NFP as well as TTC, TTW, TTA, BBT,...

Deciding which form of Natural Family Planning (NFP) to use can be a daunting task. With so many options available, it’s important to find t

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If you have been following our blog for a while it may be no surprise we talk A LOT about cervical mucus. It is literally the foundation...

It’s no secret that there are a lot of particular and personal questions a Fertility Care Practitioner asks a client during a follow-up. And it’s not because practitioners are nosey or don’t understand personal boundaries; on the contrary, a good practitioner is able to professionally inquire about personal topics in a thorough manner. This intense attention-to-detail during a follow-up allows a practitioner to properly assess how well a woman or couple is learning the meth

Many women and couples come to the Creighton Model Fertility Care System to achieve a pregnancy, to find answers to why they haven't...

Picture this: six women walk into a room, each at a different stage of life's journey. One is a single gal, another just got engaged,...

The Holiday Season is in full force which means things can be crazy. All the school programs. The cooking and baking. Parties and family...

"Can we have sex" on such-and-such day? This question pops up in follow ups all the time. Spoiler alert: if you're married and you're both interested in intercourse on a particular day YES you are perfectly capable and you don't have to ask my permission. (Phew!) Our role as Fertility Care Practitioners is not to tell you when you are or are not "allowed" to have sex with your spouse. Our role is to help you gain a full understanding of your fertility so that you know which

The holidays can be a very beautiful time of the year with all the traditions, time with family and delightful meals. The holidays also...

Happy Halloween! I hope that you have fun spending time with your children, handing out, eating candy, etc. or wherever you find yourself this Halloween. Much like Halloween, the Sunday Scaries can be....well...scary. You know the feeling: Sunday afternoon rolls around and you've got a knot in your stomach thinking of all of the things that need to get done throughout the week. Maybe it's the project you've been procreating at work, that difficult conversation with your frien

If you're looking for the right "fit" Natural Family Planning method... here's a bunch of information all in one place about Creighton Model System to help you make the best decision for YOU! What does the term "Creighton Model System" (CrMS) or "Creighton Model Fertility Care " mean? CrMS is a method of Natural Family Planning. Different methods use different signs, symptoms and/or devices to help you track and understand your times of fertility and infertility. At a very ba

Let’s take a trip down memory lane, to the time of my first follow-up after attending the Creighton Model Introductory Session. This is when Introductory Sessions and Follow-up Sessions were conducted strictly in-person, in that wild time of life known as “pre-Covid”. My husband and I showed up at our FertilityCare Practitioner’s home with our two weeks’ worth of hard-charting effort. He was as annoyingly calm and confident as he always is while I had butterflies in my sto

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

In the world of reproductive health and family planning, the landscape is constantly evolving with new developments. One such development...