One of the ways that Natural family planning is remarkable is how it accumulates a menstrual cycle history for us that gets recorded and documented through months and years of charts. I always recommend we hold on to our old charts for at least a year because it provides us with so much data about […]
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1 ~ NFP deepens your relationship with your partner With so many other methods of contraception, we organise and action it alone without any involvement from our partners. NFP is inherently different because our partner also needs to understand it. Whether as a couple you are looking to achieve or prevent pregnancy, it is in
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I’m writing this after watching Davina Mcall’s channel 4 documentary about the pill which was very damning of the Natural Cycles app. Unfortunately, the documentary failed to recognise the pen and paper method of Natural Family Planning as a reliable method of contraception and that is very different from charting your cycle using an app.
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Understanding how to observe, chart and interpret our shifting signs of fertility is a foundational skill for feeling more at home in ourselves and our bodies as women and menstruators. Cycle charting is a powerful tool that steers us away from the pace and expectations of the external world and brings us back into what
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Natural family planning (NFP) is a method of contraception where we monitor and record our different fertility signs throughout our menstrual cycle to work out when we are fertile or infertile. Each day this tells us if we are likely to get pregnant or not. This page briefly explains how it works and what you
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At menstruation, during, pregnancy, through womb loss, in the birth space and during postpartum, I have found ways to honour and tend to my body and self. I do it because I have to ~ because having a female reproductive system in a patriarchal culture means I will not automatically be seen, respected and honoured
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Day 26.Inner autumn.When the season outside marries perfectly with my inner hormonal world, I feel at peace. Nothing to reconcile ~ a permission to simply be.As progesterone takes hormonal dominance in my body, all the doing has been done & the closing into pre-menstrum begins.All around the land is also about to surrender back into
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After a decade of reliable full/new moon bleeds, my bleed post-birth has settled its rhythm in between ~ with the waning half moon. This is my 4th cycle as a mother & I’m starting to understand what menstrual wellbeing looks like whilst caring for my baby. I know now what support I need to feel
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Each month I bleed with the full moon so right now, I’m patiently awaiting my flow. The days leading up to this monthly release can be intense. Depending how easeful life has been during my cycle so far and the external demands of me in this moment, the pre-menstrum arrives with varying degrees of tension
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As women living in a patriarchal culture, we’re likely to find ourselves in environments where consistent, linear ways of being are valued most. We may see adverts for menstrual products that show us how easily we might conceal our bleed and ‘carry on like an equal’. Sadly, the dominant cultural message is to keep the
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