roesbeck FertilityCare Center is so excited to share that Dr. Kathleen Stenlund of Bloom and Balance Clinic in East Lansing is able to support women who are using the Creighton Model with her expertise as a NaPro Medical Consultant!

Season of Waiting With Christmas two days away, I find myself reflecting on Seasons of Waiting we experience in life. For the longest time, waiting has always sounded like such a passive thing, like you're just sitting around and waiting for something to happen when the reality is seasons of waiting are some of the most active times of life! Look at Mary: as soon as she finds out she is expecting Jesus, Mary sets out "in haste" to go visit her cousin Elizabeth to help he

A beautiful prayer for any difficulty.

How to extend yourself grace during the postpartum period.

How VRPM can wreak havoc on charts and what you can do about it.

Our Mama Mary      As an adult woman, life can just be so dang hard and miserable sometimes. And while you tell yourself you’re a grown-up and can handle anything, sometimes you just can’t do it all on your own and you wish you could just go crying to your mama. In those tough moments, that’s exactly what you need to do: go crying to your Mama Mary! Jesus gave us such a beautiful gift in giving us Mary as our own Mother, and like any good mother, she is always ready to interc

I really am not a fan of pain. Like not at all. I like to think I have a decent pain tolerance, but I still despise it all together. I think that’s why when pain comes along in any aspect of life- physical, mental, emotional, spiritual- I prefer to try to ignore it (horrible nursing advice!) or even fight it. After years of walking around in this broken world, I tell myself these gray hairs must come with some sort of insight or wisdom…or at least an idea closer to the Truth

The second part to Natalie's first blog on why being called the wrong name has impacted her work as Creighton Model Practitioner.

A client shares her experience with the Groesbeck FertilityCare Center and NaPro Technology during Worldwide FertilityCare Week.

How a personal experience in prayer has impacted by practice as a CFCP.

The Groesbeck FertilityCare Practitioners This past Saturday, December 7th, the lovely FCPs and CFCPs met for a day of professional development for the Groesbeck FertilityCare Center at our yearly in-person retreat day for professional development at the beautiful St. Mary’s in Williamston. This year marked our fourth year of meeting in person to discuss the vision of GFCC for the year all while sharing plenty of fellowship, support, and good food.  Today’s blog will

I work mostly with clients walking the path of infertility. I am not really sure how this started, but these are the clients God consistently sends my way, and I am happy to participate in His work for me this way. While each one of their experiences is unique, there are sometimes certain phases that emerge along the journey through infertility. These phases or moments can occur at various times depending on the client’s own experience, whether it be going full steam ahead wi

After the Introductory Session, clients are usually feeling excited about the information they have just learned, a little overwhelmed, or a combination of the two. We end the Introductory Session by stating that the next step in learning the Creighton Model is to attend follow-ups. Follow-ups are crucial to learning the Creighton Model , and for learning it well. During a follow-up, very specific questions are asked about how observations are made and the chart is reviewed i

I am writing this blog (or at least beginning to write it) from the cry room of my parish’s church. After another fast and furious Monday morning full of Vacation Bible School drop-off, Aldi’s, tutoring, and more VBS, I am hoping to receive some unmerited grace and Divine inspiration from our Lord ever-present in the tabernacle (grace is always unmerited and unearned as it is pure gift from God, but this time perhaps a little more “unmerited” since I have known that I needed

It’s the day after Memorial Day, which means summer has officially started! And while I am a huge fan of long, lazy summer days with a lot less crammed into my schedule, charting still remains, and that is something I do not like to be lazy about! Here are my top 3 tips to help your charting stay on point during the summer heat: 1.      Always keep to the observational routine.  Known as Instruction A on the back of your chart, this one is listed first for a reason! With the

The emotions of infertility, Creighton chart, and marriage

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

On behalf of all the wonderful Fertility Care Practitioners at the Groesbeck Fertility Care  Center, happy New Year’s! As fate would have it, I have the privilege of writing the first blog of the Groesbeck Fertility Care  Center for 2024, an honor I also received last year for 2023.  While I reviewed some helpful tips to turn over a new leaf in the new year last year, I thought it would be helpful this year to explore how motivation makes all the difference to sticking to n

It was a typical Monday night bedtime routine. I was attempting to lead the kids through their bedtime prayers while my husband was retrieving our oldest from her Monday night activity. Per usual, I was wiped out from a day that became busier than it needed to be and was consequently short on patience, thinking of all the things I still needed to finish before the day was over. So while my other three littles were busy with their typical bedtime antics, I was hustling throu

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