The postpartum season can be challenging for women, navigating the days with a new baby and little sleep. Many couples who hope to prevent another pregnancy or space children after giving birth face tough birth control decisions. Natural Family Planning (NFP) and Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM) are good options for natural birth control during the postpartum period, whether a woman is breastfeeding or not.
For couples using NFP or FAMs, the postpartum season can be an especially challenging time to read and interpret fertile signs. With the right support and instruction, however, the postpartum season can be an excellent time for growth in your relationship, and in confidence in your method of NFP. A trained instructor in your method can help you gain this confidence, and help ensure that you correctly identify things like your first postpartum ovulation symptoms.
Below you’ll find articles about postpartum health in general, and as it relates to fertility awareness methods of natural family planning.
Click here for information about postpartum depression.
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A guide to trace minerals for preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum health
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How does the new postpartum depression pill work?
By Kristen Curran • February 15, 2024And is medication the best treatment for PPD? -
If you developed depression after taking birth control, you might be at higher risk of postpartum depression later on
By Alex Rico • November 3, 2023Women with a history of depression on birth control may be at higher risk -
The Fourth Trimester Guidebook: Your Postpartum Mental Health Matters
By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN • February 3, 2022This article marks the third installment in our series on the “fourth trimester,” otherwise known as the first… -
The Fourth Trimester Guidebook: Postpartum Healing and Exercise
By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN • January 28, 2022Author’s Note: neither Natural Womanhood nor I personally have any connection to nor affiliation with any site or… -
The Fourth Trimester Guidebook: Postpartum Nutrition
By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN • January 21, 2022If you’re pregnant or have had a baby recently, you might have heard the phrase “the fourth trimester.”… -
Vaginal Seeding: The controversial postpartum trend for Cesarean moms
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Concerned about postpartum mental health and milk supply? Think twice about your birth control choice (especially LARCs)
By Cassondra Moriarty • October 1, 2021You just had a baby. And maybe, you’re thinking “I am definitely not ready for another one!” (These… -
Everything You Need to Know about Postpartum Bleeding, aka Lochia
By Cassondra Moriarty • December 31, 2020Some women are relieved to not have a period for the duration of a pregnancy, and for at…