You’ve Mastered Your Chart — Now What? Continuing Your Creighton Journey with Long Term Follow Up

If you’ve been working with your Creighton Model FertilityCare Practitioner for about a year and have completed at least eight follow-up sessions, you’re probably feeling really proficient with your Creighton chart — hooray!

It’s such a great feeling and a massive accomplishment to have come this far. Over the course of your Introductory Session and 8+ follow-ups, you’ve invested more than 10 hours, a meaningful amount of money, and plenty of energy into truly understanding your body and fertility. You now understand your fertility in a way that far too many women and couples never do.

If you’re engaged or married, you’ve likely grown deeper in intimacy and love for one another. You’ve become a well-informed and confident advocate for your long-term health and wellness. So, what’s next?

You’re probably ready to graduate into what we call “long-term follow-ups” — and there’s a very good reason these are so important.

At Groesbeck FertilityCare Center (and most other FertilityCare Centers), you need to remain an active client in order to continue ordering your charting materials long-term. This is because we place such high value on the integrity and standardization of the Creighton Model system. We want to ensure every woman and couple is using it correctly and receiving the support they need.

Creighton is unique in that it naturally builds long-term support into the method itself. In long-term follow-ups, you’ll meet with your practitioner every 6–12 months to review your observations, charting, and instructions. She can offer support, motivation, encouragement, and helpful resources as needed. Your practitioner is a highly trained expert who continues her education and participates in regular peer review — don’t hesitate to use her knowledge to your advantage!

Even if your cycles have been stable, remember that as women, our bodies are always changing. As you age and move through different reproductive seasons, things won’t always stay the same. Your practitioner is skilled at spotting early biomarker changes on your chart that may signal health issues worth discussing with your doctor.

You should schedule a follow-up sooner than the usual 6–12 month window if you become pregnant, have a baby and enter the postpartum phase, have been trying to get pregnant for 4 cycles unsuccessfully, notice changes in your cycle, experience more or less fertility than usual, or have concerns with PMS, pain, bleeding, or any other fertility-related issues. We love hearing from our long-term clients and supporting your health!

Navigating a natural fertility system long-term can be challenging at times. While the benefits are many, the difficulties are real. Your practitioner is there to support you with marriage resources, medical referrals, and expert chart management.

If it’s been more than six months since you last checked in with your practitioner, let this be your gentle nudge to reach out today! If you’re not sure how to contact her, feel free to reach out through our website and we’ll happily reconnect you.

We want to continue this journey with you.