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What is Fertility Awareness?

Women’s emotional and physical realities naturally shift and sway just as the tides of the sea rise and fall. Our fertility is one such wave we experience the ebb and flow of for a good share of our lives. We are fortunate to have continually changing body signals that indicate the times of our fertility, the times we are capable of conceiving a child or not. By listening to our bodies, charting our cycles and having a basic sense of our hormonal systems we can know on any given day if we are fertile or infertile. We can watch our cyclical wave of fertility and learn to trust in it and enjoy it.

The Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) is a way of learning and keeping track of these changes and using this information to care for our hormonal health and to consciously choose when and if we would like to be pregnant.

The FAM has evolved out of past methods of Natural Family Planning (NFP) and is highly effective in preventing pregnancy as well as for conception purposes. It involves an initial commitment of learning and then entails only a few moments a day as an on-going practice.
The FAM is based on the recognition of 3 main signs of fertility; cervical fluid changes, cervical position changes and basal body temperature.
Charting these as well as secondary fertility signs can help you make a decision each day as to whether you are fertile or not. For maximum effectiveness the method recommends abstinence during the fertile times if you are not wanting to conceive.

This information is not generally offered in the mainstream educational system and is often misunderstood and not trusted because of its absence from modern cultural practices. Congratulations for having the natural curiosity and wisdom to seek more connection to your body and the mysteries of life.

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