What is Fertility Awareness?

by Devon Mason on April 18, 2010

If you are trying to conceive, it will benefit you greatly to become knowledgeable about fertility awareness.

What is Fertility Awareness?

According to Wikipedia, fertility awareness:

“refers to a set of practices used to determine the fertile and infertile phases of a woman’s menstrual cycle. Fertility awareness methods may be used to avoid pregnancy, to achieve pregnancy, or as a way to monitor gynecological health.”

Are Fertility Awareness Methods Right for You?

If you are trying to get pregnant, or trying to avoid getting pregnant, then yes…fertility awareness methods are right for you!

What are Fertility Awareness Methods?

Fertility Awareness methods provide you with valuable information about when your body is ovulating. When ovulation occurs in a woman’s body, an oocyte, or egg, is released. These methods are also commonly referred to as Natural Family Planning.

How do Fertility Awareness Methods Work?

If you are trying to avoid getting pregnant, fertility awareness methods allow you to know which days to avoid having sexual intercourse, or alternatively, practice some method of birth control such as condoms, which are a barrier method.

On the other hand, if you are trying to get pregnant, fertility awareness methods let you know when your body is at its most fertile and conception is most likely to occur if you have sexual intercourse.

What are the Methods of Fertility Awareness?

There are three methods of fertility awareness:

  1. Cervical Position Method
  2. Cervical Fluid Method
  3. Basal Body Temperature Method

These three methods combined are called the “symptothermal method.”

How Effective are Fertility Awareness Methods?

Studies have shown that women who practice the fertility awareness methods conceive 6X faster than the norm!

Are Fertility Awareness Methods safe?

Absolutely! Fertility Awareness Methods are 100% safe and natural.

What are the Benefits of Fertility Awareness Methods?

  • They are safe and natural
  • No drugs are used
  • They’re almost free, just the cost of a thermometer to record basal Body Temperature


Are There Disadvantages to Using Fertility Awareness Methods?

Fertility Awareness Methods might not work for you if you are:

  • Breastfeeding
  • In your teens
  • Have a sexually transmitted disease or unusual vaginal discharge
  • Have irregular periods
  • Are unable to keep accurate records

Natural family planning using fertility awareness methods can put you on the fast track to pregnancy!

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