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nodito
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If you scroll down that link I posted you’ll find a fertility chart for low temperatures. Mine are low too! The chart I use starts at 95.9 degrees F.
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Truly_Beloved
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I have low temps as well, and since everything else checks out okay, I just re-label my charts. I bring all of them down by 1 degree to better accommodate my temps.
NFP is information. You can use the information to avoid pregnancy or achieve it. I like to use it for due date estimates.
The difference between NFP and contraception/sterilization is that NFP preserves God’s intent for sex to be both procreative (openness to children) and unitive (becoming one with your spouse/bonding).
I just saw 1ke’s post… I am slow today.
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forever_always
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Ah thank you, i read that wrong the first time… i thought the lowest on the chart was 96.9… yeesh, i’m a little slow today I think
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forever_always
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Okay this makes sense, thank you. I have no desire to use artificial birth control by any means… i was just wanting more clarification. =] (I just wanted to clear that up haha!)I have low temps as well, and since everything else checks out okay, I just re-label my charts. I bring all of them down by 1 degree to better accommodate my temps.
NFP is information. You can use the information to avoid pregnancy or achieve it. I like to use it for due date estimates.
The difference between NFP and contraception/sterilization is that NFP preserves God’s intent for sex to be both procreative (openness to children) and unitive (becoming one with your spouse/bonding).
I just saw 1ke’s post… I am slow today.
Thank you also to 1ke =]
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katillac1
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Can someone describe what it actually takes to practice NFP. I’m just not sold on the fact on having a strict schedule and having to examine cervical mucus. That just makes me sick to my stomach. My schedule is never the same so how does this work for a working woman or one with an unpredictable schedule? Also, I’ve read that sickness or other factors can change temps and the characteristics of the muscus, so how is this method trustworthy?
I’m single and not planning on anything for a long time, I’m just really curious. The whole thing sounds like something I would have a very hard time keeping up with.
Thoughts, observations, advice, tricks from the pros would be helpful!
I’m single and not planning on anything for a long time, I’m just really curious. The whole thing sounds like something I would have a very hard time keeping up with.
Thoughts, observations, advice, tricks from the pros would be helpful!
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ChristinaM
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Why should that make you sick to your stomach? Cervical mucus is natural and normal. I have heard this many times and I am always puzzled by this aspect of womens’ reaction to their own bodies. Personally I find it much more “gross” to flood my reproductive system with fake hormones by way of ABC (not saying that you would, just putting things in perspective here).Anyhow, it is really not as hard as it seems. In Billings Method we do not do any internal observations of any kind. We simply take note of the sensations at the vulva throughout the day and when we wipe after using the restroom. There is no schedule or anything like that. It takes a while to become aware of it but once you learn, you can’t help but notice. Even if you choose to use a method that incorporates temperature taking, that is an easy habit to get into as well and cervical mucus is the primary sign.
Generally if I am ill and taking a medication that would affect my mucus (some cold and sinus medications “dry you out”), I take note of it on my chart and am extra careful. I usually try not to take those medications around the time when I would be fertile, so as not to get confused. I know that’s not really helpful, but that’s what I do.
You may want to look back through the thread, some very helpful links about the ins and outs of NFP have been posted.
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Thorny
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It really doesn’t take any more effort than other, non-permanent, forms of birth regulation. It is all in how you adapt.
We use (and teach) CCL’s Sympto-Thermal Method. After learning the rules, all it takes is for the wife to take her temperature when she wakes up in the morning, and observing her mucus signs when she uses the restroom, and write it down at the end of the day. We recommend the husband help with the temps and charting, but it is not strictly necessary. So that’s 5 minutes of lying in bed in the morning and about 3 minutes total spread out the rest of the day. Keeping track isn’t that hard–no harder than remembering to take a pill in the morning or to put on a condom in the moment of passion.
Sickness can affect the signs, but rarely will that happen without noticing that you are sick. In other words, you are very unlikely to have sickness invalidate a sign without warning from other symptoms. All we do is note the sickness and disregard the days of sickness in applying the rules.
As far as schedules go, the only schedule is that the temperature has to be taken at the same time every morning. Note, this doesn’t mean you have to actually get up then–if you want to sleep in (like on a Saturday), you simply take your temperature and go back to sleep. If you have an excessive variety in your wake-up time, you can rely on the mucus only methods as ChristinaM described.
As Truly Beloved said, NFP is information. I highly recommend gathering information on your body and how it works–you will be healthier for it. The reliabilty of NFP is well documented fact, even if the women’s magazines refuse to acknowledge it.
Peace.
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