What is Natural Family Planning?
Natural Family Planning (NFP) provides information so that you, as a couple, can learn to understand and appreciate your fertility. During each cycle a woman experiences times of fertility and infertility accompanied by specific signs. Natural Family Planning is the practice of observing and charting these fertility signs to determine accurately when a woman is fertile and when she is infertile. When you want to achieve pregnancy, NFP helps you identify the most fertile time. When you want to avoid pregnancy, you abstain from genital contact during the fertile time.
NFP can be used in ANY cycle regardless of the woman's circumstances, including regular cycles, irregular cycles, breastfeeding, pre-menopause, or low fertility. Natural Family Planning is up to 99% effective in spacing births. To learn more about NFP visit the link below.
U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops: Myths & Realities
How to Learn Natural Family Planning
Learning to observe and interpret the signs of fertility is not difficult. Observations take only a few minutes each day. However, it is important that you learn NFP from qualified instructors.
Three different methods of NFP are taught in various locations in the Diocese of Fort Worth: 1) The Billings Ovulation Method 2) The Couple to Couple League Sympto-thermal Method and 3) Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System. Visit the links in the Resources page to learn more about these methods, and contact the diocesan NFP coordinators (listed below) to determine which method is right for you. Engaged and married couples are encouraged to attend the sessions together.
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Contact
Tony Abadie
Natural Family Planning Coordinator
(817) 560-2452 Ext. 252
Cell: (972) 746-5085
aabadie@fwdioc.org