Why go natural?
When it comes to monitoring your fertility, the information is already at your fingertips. Further additions usually serve to confuse or obstruct. Natural Family Planning or fertility awareness is inexpensive, healthy, reversible, and effective.
It doesn't cost you anything to notice what your body is doing. Ideally, you have paid to take a class, because brilliant as we are, there is much we do not cover on this site. Other than that you need a basal thermometer, toilet paper (you probably already paid for this), and a set of clean hands (soap and water not included). Basically, what you need to become an expert on your fertility is pretty cheap and readily available.
The CDC has reported that 11.8% of women have impaired fecundity. And others are estimating that 30-50% of men are sub-fertile. Your fertility is not a disease that has to be regulated by pills, patches, injections, implants, surgeries, and barriers. All of these artificial interventions have a myriad of unpleasant or dangerous side-effects, just read the package; all drugs do. Your fertility is a display of a functioning you! If you are noticing problems with your cycle (pain, irregularities, abnormally long or short) you owe it to yourself, your spouse, and/or or kids to find an answer and not cover your symptoms up. Many fertility problems are caused by underlying health and nutrition issues that can be remedied by improving our general health and diet.
NFP is 100% reversible, each and every cycle. If you decide to avoid pregnancy, you use your body’s natural signs to determine when to abstain from sexual intercourse. If you change your mind, you change your actions. Chemical methods of contraception can take months to years to clear out of your system or require a medical reversal. With NFP, you have maximum control your fertility, instead of being at the mercy of your contraception.
The sympto-thermal method of NFP has a 99% effectiveness at delaying pregnancy. This is as effective as a number of other contraceptives, and significantly better than most. NFP gives you more control over whether or not you conceive.
Going natural is cost effective, promotes and protects your health, is completely reversible, and is exceptionally effective. Observing your fertility, cooperating with ordinary functions, and still having the power to decide how you use it, is the beauty of NFP.