What can you expect when you achieve a pregnancy while using Creighton Model? First, contact your practitioner! As part of our education...

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...

In recent years the MTHFR (pardon my language) gene mutation has gotten a lot of notoriety in the fertility world. It turns out that...

I hear quite a few myths about NFP, and as a practitioner intern, I want to counter these myths and provide accurate information about...

I've heard a million response about why FertilityCare will never work. For example: -"there is no rhyme or reason to fertility" -"my...

Infertility is not only something which hurts the hearts of women as they struggle to get pregnant or carry a pregnancy to full term. The...

We reached out on social media asking what questions you have about Creighton Model, or Natural Family Planning more broadly. Below are your questions and our answers. As always, you can contact one of our Practitioners for more information! "What does using/practicing NFP really mean?" If you are "using" NFP in the most basic sense that means that you are not using any artificial means to regulate or control your fertility (whether physical or chemical ). Rather, you have a

It seems like food is a theme for Groesbeck practitioners isn’t it? What we have is a glimpse into the life and reality that a lot of our...

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

What is a "chemical pregnancy" and is it a miscarriage?

Volumes have been written on this topic and a blog post can only barely scratch the surface, but hopefully this can be a first step in deepening your understanding of the purpose of our human sexuality. Sexual intercourse was designed by God and like everything He made, it was designed to be very, very good. As with anything God created, it is most beautiful and fulfilling when it’s used the way God designed it to be used. There’s a concept in philosophy called “teleology”. T

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

Some may wonder what it’s like to be a FertilityCare Practitioner Intern (FCPI). As an FCPI, I have had the opportunity to learn so much...

It’s FertilityCare Appreciation week which means its a great week for Groesbeck FerilityCare Center to get the word out about the highest...

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