I want to start this post by saying, this is no way to bash other methods of Natural Family Planning. I am simply relating to you all...

Isn’t NFP just for engaged and married couples? It’s just for avoiding and achieving pregnancy, right? While the Creighton model can reliably be used to avoid and achieve pregnancy, those are not the only reasons why women begin charting. There are many benefits to charting as a single woman . But how can this method help teenage girls specifically? Teenage girls have just begun cycling. When I was younger, I learned about my period, including how to manage the bleeding and

As a Creighton Practitioner, we are trained to help couples to both achieve AND avoid pregnancies. As a lot of people know, Creighton has...

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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