Nfp - How often

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Wow. I thought it usually followed a pattern like this to AVOID pregnancy: (keep in mind it’s not exact)
Day 1 - 6: period of few days and YES marital act
Day 7 - 17: fertile time, NO marital act
Day 18 - 28: not fertile, YES marital act
 
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We use device called LadyComp that tracks/charts cycle with daily temperature readings. Will inform of fertile and non-fertile days.
 
As often as you want when you’re NOT fertile if you’re trying to AVOID pregnancy.

As often as you want when you ARE fertile if you’re trying to ACHIEVE pregnancy.
 
no1special said:
Wow. I thought it usually followed a pattern like this to AVOID pregnancy: (keep in mind it’s not exact)
Day 1 - 6: period of few days and YES marital act
Day 7 - 17: fertile time, NO marital act
Day 18 - 28: not fertile, YES marital act
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An egg can remain viable for up to 3 days. Sperm can live for multiple days. Don’t assume you ovulate exactly on day 15, because not everyone does. This is how NFP fails.

You need more than a predictor - you need to know your body’s signs. It’s more than just looking at a calendar - that’s why the rhythm method went the way of the dodo. It didn’t work, and counting days is nothing more than the rhythm method.

If you’re ovulating on day seven, it’s too soon, and you have a problem. Most women ovulate around day 15, but some are day 18, some are 14, some are 19 (although that’s considered the long end of normal, and speaks to a different issue). When the signs of ovulation are there, the woman has either ovulated in the previous 24 hours or will within the next 24 hours.

Wanted to add this is both medical and personal knowledge talking. We worked for the better part of a decade to get pregnant, and I can’t. Basically I did this in reverse trying to get pregnant.
 
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I use a fertility device as well as chart my temps. I did say that the pattern was not exact in terms of days, but that it followed this general pattern (with me).
Almost a week of being non-fertile, then about week and a half of being fertile, followed by a week and a half of being non-fertile.

It sounds like OP was not clear on how the general cycle was broken down.
 
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I used one of those. Absolutely fascinating to me still that we have the power to have that in our bathrooms.

The danger in posting such a generality is we’re all very, very different. There’s a massive scale of “normal” as well. I just want to be sure folks know that.

In reality you’re only fertile for about 72 hours a month. Not weeks at a time.
 
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It should be noted that the goal of NFP is not to prevent pregnancy but to space out and time pregnancies due to just causes. My wife and I practiced NFP after our first child just to space him a little from the next one. When we got pregnant about a year later that was good for us. Married couples are called to be open to life. If you are trying to use NFP to completely contraception then you are not using it with the right mindset.
 
But as we both know, sperm can live within the body for up to 5 days which in essence extends our chances of pregnancy.
 
Which is what I said above. But the egg itself dies within an average known time of 72 hours. Once it’s gone, you’re clearly no longer capable of pregnancy. You can get pregnant on the front or the back - but the reality is, you’re fertile for 72 hours.
 
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I’ve been an RN for close to 15 years and have seen more fertility specialists in the last 12 years than I care to discuss. You and I aren’t the only people who read this forum, either. I want to be sure correct information gets out.
 
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My apologies. I’ll step aside for the specialists to give the info.
 
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My apologies. I’ll step aside for the specialists to give the info.
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Again, no need to be that way - as I said, more than the two of us post here. As I didn’t stomp on what you posted, I’m not sure about your second remark.

You had originally stated you’ve been doing NFP for twenty years, and so I shared my experience.
 
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Don’t assume you ovulate exactly on day 15, because not everyone does. This is how NFP fails.
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I think you’re thinking of rhythm, not NFP. NFP does not teach that you ovulate on a certain day, but teaches you how to figure out when you are ovulating.
 
No, I’m not thinking of rhythm method. That’s not even used anymore. Rhythm didn’t even calculate that precisely because we didn’t have the knowledge then that we do now and it had about an 80% failure rate.

How do you think fertile time is being calculated? It’s based around the day of ovulation.

Knowing the day of ovulation is key to NFP. It’s the exact same thing.
 
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Exactly. Rhythm isn’t used anymore. With NFP you track bbt, cm, cervical positions and other symptoms to determine when ovulation is. Different for every woman. Sometimes different cycle to cycle.
 
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You need more than a predictor - you need to know your body’s signs. It’s more than just looking at a calendar - that’s why the rhythm method went the way of the dodo. It didn’t work, and counting days is nothing more than the rhythm method.
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I’ll quote myself.
 
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