Resources
Websites
- Live the Love - The Couple to Couple League's new site promoting NFP, as well as their main site.
- Living the Sacrament - A website with information on different NFP methods, as well as an active forum for women using NFP. The site is dedicated to a Catholic view of sexuality and marriage. There is also a forum for men, but it is much less active. The forums are private, but it is easy to be approved.
- Ovagraph - the website companion to "Taking Charge of Your Fertility." Features secular information and forums, although the community is more directed towards achieving pregnancy.
- Other methods:
- Billings Ovulation Method - a mucus only method (in contrast to the sympto-thermal method, that uses temperature too).
- Creighton Method - another mucus only method.
- Marquette Method - a woman tests her urine using test strips and a fertility monitor to predict ovulation. Often used along with mucus/temperature observations.
Books
- A secular guide and reference book for the fertility awareness method, with a comprehensive look at charting to prevent or achieve pregnancy.
- Includes sections on charting after pregnancy and during menopause.
- Includes discussion of using barrier methods during fertile times.
- Your local library probably has it!
- A new, short "how to" for natural family planning, including information on preventing and achieving pregnancy.
- Includes exercises and sample charts to practice your new found knowledge.
- A Catholic publication, with sections explaining Catholic teachings on marriage and sex.
- Does not include instructions for menopause or childbirth (there are two other short books for these).
- An older (1996) comprehensive reference book to natural family planning, including preventing or achieving pregnancy.
- Includes sections about charting after pregnancy or during menopause.
- Includes special rules for charting with a-typical cervical fluid or temperature patterns.
- A Catholic publication, with sections explaining Catholic teachings on marriage and sex.
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