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Georgea
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Hi,
My husband and I attended a class on NFP when we were engaged, and decided that we didn’t have a really good reason not to have children right away, should God bless us with them, so we didn’t continue with the class. Four children later, I’d like to try NFP. My husband is currently using barrier methods (I’m not totally comfortable with this, but I think not having intimacy in our marriage is more of a detriment than using barrier methods). He has said he’d like to have a vasectomy. He knows I don’t approve and at least for now, he is holding off on this. (A little background…. I’m a practicing Catholic and I’ve come a long way since I was married 8 years ago. My husband was baptized Catholic and he attends Mass each week with our family, but right now, he’s somewhere between agnostic and atheist. He’s a really great man, though, and I’m praying he’ll come around
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If I can get up and running with NFP, I think he will be okay with using that as birth control and it will stop the vascetomy talk. Our oldest is six, and our youngest is 9 months. I’m awake at so many random hours throughout the night (i.e. baby has to eat, someone has a bad dream, someone wet the bed) that I don’t know if NFP will work for us right now. How can I go about starting NFP when it seems like every night I’m waking up at all different hours? Life with 4 little ones is wonderful, but it’s really hectic and we don’t live close to any where that offers a class, (besides, I don’t think I’d be able to get my husband to go again and we don’t have babysitters anyway) so retaking the class really isn’t an option right now.
Any advice would be helpful.
My husband and I attended a class on NFP when we were engaged, and decided that we didn’t have a really good reason not to have children right away, should God bless us with them, so we didn’t continue with the class. Four children later, I’d like to try NFP. My husband is currently using barrier methods (I’m not totally comfortable with this, but I think not having intimacy in our marriage is more of a detriment than using barrier methods). He has said he’d like to have a vasectomy. He knows I don’t approve and at least for now, he is holding off on this. (A little background…. I’m a practicing Catholic and I’ve come a long way since I was married 8 years ago. My husband was baptized Catholic and he attends Mass each week with our family, but right now, he’s somewhere between agnostic and atheist. He’s a really great man, though, and I’m praying he’ll come around
)If I can get up and running with NFP, I think he will be okay with using that as birth control and it will stop the vascetomy talk. Our oldest is six, and our youngest is 9 months. I’m awake at so many random hours throughout the night (i.e. baby has to eat, someone has a bad dream, someone wet the bed) that I don’t know if NFP will work for us right now. How can I go about starting NFP when it seems like every night I’m waking up at all different hours? Life with 4 little ones is wonderful, but it’s really hectic and we don’t live close to any where that offers a class, (besides, I don’t think I’d be able to get my husband to go again and we don’t have babysitters anyway) so retaking the class really isn’t an option right now.
Any advice would be helpful.
