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They do have a distance options, but it is not a “self taught” option. You still meet with an instructor over the phone (or mabye Skype these days, technology is great).
They have a book, but you can only get it through your instructor. Don’t worry too much about the fees. It depends on your instructor. My instructor let us purchase the original kit (book, first few charts, stamps) but offered her instructions for free because she felt this should be freely available knowledge. I ended up making an excel spreadsheet that does most of the work for me. I just hit a bunch of drop down menus and that’s it. It saves me from having to continue to buy the charts. Even if you don’t have advanced excel skills, you can still make a basic chart on excel. That’s a lot easier to send back and forth on emails.
Thank you for this! I was told to learn Creighton specifically because it can help p(name removed by moderator)oint hormonal imbalances and other problems (which apparently you can’t do with symptothermal method). So in other words, it’s not just about fertility, although that is important too. Does author of the book deal with these issues as well?
Toni Weschler’s TCOYF is the Sympto-Thermal method. However, she instructs in Fertility Awareness Method (FAM), not Natural Family Planning (NFP). FAM utilizes barrier contraception during fertile periods. While it is a good book on charting Sympto-Thermal, you indicated you already know STM. I don’t think this book will give you anything new.
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Creighton is a wonderful method the in depth knowlage of detailed mucus charting can be more helpful than bbt temps athough, you can p(name removed by moderator)oint hormonal inbalances using stm. not seeing a temp shift is a hormonal inbalances, or seeing temps to low or to hight etc. I have my training in Creighton and stm. I currently use stm but I don’t need the detail mucus info at this time and need the bbt temps more. I do think its a shame that Creighton makes it hard to buy the book cheeper and self teach, but I understand most people would get confused easy and need a instructor. I also wish they would teach bbt temps when needed. sometimes the instructor can view your charts online and talk on the phone. finding a Creighton doctor is a great idea if you can afford it. the creighton book will explain the method but not much on hormonal inbalances. thats were the instructor comes in cheeper than a doctor but more knowlage then us. you can teach it all to yourself but it takes a lot of research and practice with the method.
I wish I could just keep using STM, but my new doctor know Creighton and wants me to learn that. I was hoping she would be able to interpret my STM charts better but she didn’t seem to know much about the temperatures. I hope I will be pleased with Creighton. I’m just a little grumpy about learning it because I already put time, money, and effort into one form of NFP and now I have to do the same for another
Thanks,joanofarc. It’s really nice to have some positive feedback. I’ve always had bad menstrual pain and PMS depression and mood problems, so it will be really nice if the method can shed some light on those things.
Temperature is ONLY a secondary sign, it is not the main sign. cm is the main sign of ALL nfp methods. If you are relying on temps more than mucous, you are doing the method incorrectly.
I know it’s a secondary sign. I don’t think I’m doing the method incorrectly. I’m just saying that my temp patterns are easier to read than my mucus patterns. Especially since I have chronic allergies and the meds interfere with the mucus signs.
I didn’t quote you when I wrote that. i quoted someone else—the person I was responding to.
I know temps are a secondary signs, but for me they’re extremely helpful. My mucus patterns can be hard to read, especially since I have chronic sinus/allergy problems and the meds interfere with the mucus.
did you know you can use bbt temp and Creighton. but you can’t use cervix checks with Creighton. Most CM instructors don’t know hardly anything about bbt temps so you may be on your own for that part of the charting. Creighton very rarely recommends bbt temp charting they think its too confusing. what a shame that Creighton Doctors don’t understand bbt temp charts. yah know mucus only method used to use bbt temps too in the beginning. they threw out there thermometers to help teach nfp in 3rd world countries (who could afford bbt thermometers). they had to teach “mucus only” in the 3rd world countries so they critiqued the mucus data so it was more reliable since they were going without the 2nd sign of fertility bbt temp. thats how the detailed “mucus only method” now called Creighton came from.
I ment to say couldn’t afford the bbt thermometers. obviously there was a divide at the time and several methods were formed over the decades. Creighton vs stm have been at “war” ever since. Creighton is the best for mucus and mucus is the main sign of fertility but bbt temps is also valuable information.
yes if you get a proper (rules aply) bbt temp shift in phase 3 than it would confirm ovulation. it has helped me with double peak and anovulatory cycles. I have really used both my knowledge from stm and Creigton and glade I learned both even though you can’t use both methods fully at the same time.