Fertility Awereness
Understand your body and your fertility , Be empowered by recognizing what is happening in your body through your cycles.
Breastfeeding period can be especially challenging to recognize your body. Our Fertility Awareness or Natural Family Planning ( NFP) programs are here to help you to achieve or avoid a pregnancy with the Marquette Method.
What does Fertility Awereness or NFP consist of?
Fertility Awareness helps you determine the fertile and infertile periods of your female menstrual cycle. Getting this information can help you get pregnant or avoid pregnancy.
When used as natural contraception, it will be necessary to abstain from sexual intercourse and genital activities during the fertile period of the cycle. You will need to develop your creativity to develop non-genital ways of expressing intimacy during fertile times.
Importantly, this information is based on scientific research and can help women better understand their menstrual cycle and make informed decisions about family planning.
There are different methods for monitoring and interpreting natural biological markers of fertility in a woman's body:
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CALENDAR METHOD: The oldest of the methods or sometimes called Calendar rhythm or just rhythm. This method is based on knowing the length of the past 6-12 menstrual cycles and using a simple mathematical formula to determine the beginning and end of fertility.
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BASAL BODY TEMPERATURE or more commonly called BBT : is based on tracking the daily waking temperatures of the woman throughout the cycle. After a woman ovulates her body temperature heats up 4 to8 tenths of a degree. This is called the temperature shift and is a biological marker for ovulation. BBT is often combined with the calendar method and other natural biological indicators.
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OVULATION METHOD: is based only on cervical mucus changes. Cervical mucus is produced as a response to a female hormone called estrogen. The changing pattern of the cervical mucus indicates the beginning, peak and end of the fertile time of a woman’s cycle.
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SYMPTO-THERMAL METHOD or STM: is based on a combination of BBT and cervical mucus change observation.
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HORMONAL MONITORING used in the MARQUETTE METHOD: is based on a combination of multiple natural biological indicators and the hormones change detected in the urine.
Courses
Natural Family Planning Class
Virtual and In-Person
The fertility awareness class with Marquette Method is a comprehensive and evidence-based program designed to educate women on their reproductive health.
This courses online and in person teach women how to track their menstrual cycle and identify the most fertile days of their cycle, using the Marquette Method's unique combination of fertility signs
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Natural Family Planning Class in person
Comprehensive program designed to educate individuals about their reproductive health and promote natural family planning methods
This class covers:
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menstrual cycle tracking
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understanding ovulation
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fertility signs and symptoms
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how to effectively use fertility awareness methods to either achieve or avoid pregnancy during special time of your life like post-partum, breastfeeding