Many new clients that practitioners see are engaged couples. These couples may have found the Creighton Model System on their own, or it...

"When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place" - C.S. Lewis In the post, Infertility (Part I), I...

Women who are on the birth control pill come to a Fertility Care Practitioner for a variety of reasons. The most common include: They are unhappy with the side effects of the pill and want to continue avoiding pregnancy without the artificial hormones They have been taking it to “manage” a health condition and need help For moral/ethical reasons To achieve pregnancy In our experience, women are very often prescribed the birth control pill as means to manage a health condit

This post is the first of a 2 part series on the birth control pill (“the pill”). I’ll explain how the pill works in your body to prevent you from becoming pregnant and what types of other effects come along with that. Next week, in part 2 , we’ll dive into why and how to come off of the pill. Most birth control pills are a combination of estrogen-like and progesterone -like artificial hormones, called Endocrine Disrupters, that are not human identical. A few (sometimes calle