Creighton Model

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Ok, since pregnancy hasn’t happened yet for me, I’ve been unofficially seeing if NFP can work. I’ve centered around the Creighton Model Method because it seems like a structured method that doesn’t leave room for error, unless you are lazy about charting and observing.
My question for all who use the method and/or know something about it: what if you have unusual mucus patterns? I am very confused in trying to see when I’m beginning to be fertile and when my fertility ends. I want to try and learn how to monitor this so that after we have another baby, I’ll know how to space out the next pregnancy after that.
Any help/advice would be appreciated. 🙂
 
Do you have an instructor? Getting one will be very beneficial (in fact I don’t know if you can get the materials and info any other way). What happened for me is I had to chart for at least a month just using the basic rules. Then when I was in a follow up session with my instructor and asked the same question you have, she discussed the “esential sameness rule” in which you ask yourself if todays mucus is essentially the same as yesterdays. That extra level of interpretation was all I needed - I don’t know if there are other levels in addition. But the thing do do is start out with the basics, and then bring those questions to your instructor. So my suggestion is to go “official” with Creighton for this help.
 
Ditto from me. The impressive thing about CrM is that it’s standardized in every way–right down to the way it’s taught–around the world. In fact, I don’t know how one would learn it correctly and in its entirety on one’s own(?):confused:

Unusual mucus patterns are part and parcel of the beauty of the whole method. (Speaking from personal experience, having just weaned my son.) Definitely get in touch with an instructor: www.creightonmodel.com
and good luck! Let us know how it goes.
 
Another resource, check out the articles & boards at “Taking Charge of Your Fertility”…lots of good info and lots of other moms with interesting cycle quirks! www.tcoyf.com
 
mrs_abbott,

I third the recommendation to follow-up with a FCP. Creighton is standardized and differs from other NFP systems. I went from self-taught NFP (unless you count my pitiful lecture in NP school) to the Art of Natural Family Planning and TCOYF to Creighton. Creighton simplified mucus for me and reviewing the Picture Dictionary is sooooooooooooooooooooo helpful as well as the other info covered in the follow-ups. The follow-ups allow the FCP to tailor the system for you. Take it from a yellow stamp gal :D, you can do this!

HTH!
Autumn
 
I guess there’s no way around it. I was trying to see if I could find enough resources to do it WITHOUT an instructor. My parish always has NFP announcements in their Sunday bulletin so I guess I’ll take heart and call up the couple in charge and get registered. 🙂
 
Another Creighton user here- the instructor and instructions were extremely valuable to us. My DH attended our meetings also and though I do all of the observations- obviously, he at least knows what I mean.

I’m a yellow stamp girl too. After a few months of confusion, it does start to all make sense. Now I can look at what normally would be white baby days and know that they are yellow sticker days.

Good luck!
 
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I guess there’s no way around it. I was trying to see if I could find enough resources to do it WITHOUT an instructor. My parish always has NFP announcements in their Sunday bulletin so I guess I’ll take heart and call up the couple in charge and get registered. 🙂
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The couple listed in your bulletin likely teach the sympto-thermal method through Couple to Couple League. This is not Creighton.

I suggest you go to the Creighton website and find an instructor. If there is not one in your immediate area, they will teach long-distance.

www.creightonmodel.com and www.fertilitycare.org for info.
 
The Creighton model is excellent! After the premature loss of our son at 24 weeks and a miscarriage 4 months later, my chart was almost impossible to make heads or tails out of! I was constantly running out of yellow stickers! In fact, at one point, it was so goofy, that we had a Creighton model doctor confused and he forwarded our chart on to Dr. Hilgers himself. I am glad to report that things were finally remedied (not by doing anything different with our method…God seemed to take over and we now have a 10 month old daughter). The Creighton model allowed us to see if and when I was beginning to have problems right before our miscarriage and it also allowed us to p(name removed by moderator)oint the exact date of conception with our daughter (and totally freak out my OB! Ha!). Due to some serious medical issues, we unfortunately are not utilizing NFP anymore. However, Creighton model deepened our Catholic Faith intensely and our relationship is never void of S.P.I.C.E.!! We have become a presenting couple for NFP at our Engaged Encounter weekends here (as well as being a junior couple). We are confident that NFP saved our marriage after the loss of our son and that it helped me to understand the “workings” of my body that I never would have known had I been on the birth control my OB wanted me to do.

Don’t worry…if you find a practitioner that can help you through your first few weeks and months of charting, you will become a pro in no time! Ask to see the pictures…they helped me soooo much to understand what I was supposed to be looking at. And just keep the faith in the method…remember just how effective the model is for helping couples with possible infertility to achieve pregnancy! If you can locate a doctor who works with NFP will help, too, but it’s not necessary. But, definitely get with a practitioner. I don’t know if I would have been able to understand what I was seeing if it hadn’t been for her.

God Bless!
 
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