We can provide you with the data about how natural family planning (NFP) strengthens intimacy. We can also tell you how it preserves and protects couples’ fertility, while still allowing them to avoid pregnancy, when desired. We can even share our NFP report with you, and describe all the ways the people we interviewed felt themselves become better spouses and parents through their practice of NFP.
But often, it’s through listening to the stories of real women and couples—told in their own words—that others can begin to see what using NFP would really look like for them. It’s our hope that if you’re considering natural family planning—or already using NFP, but struggling with it in some way—that these stories give you the confidence needed to pursue this radical, intentional way of life.
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We “failed” at NFP, but our failure brought unexpected healing
By Kathryn Casey • July 27, 2024Conceiving after losing a child to anencephaly -
NFP is for everyone: A conversation with Noelle Mering of Theology of Home
By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN • July 25, 2024It’s not just for a small percentage of highly religious women -
NFP helped us avoid pregnancy to care for our daughter’s medical needs
By Elena Tejeda • July 23, 2024We were able to be fully present when our children needed us most -
My NFP story: How I learned my migraines weren’t hormone-related
By Christina Valenzuela • July 2, 2024Here’s what my chart showed -
Why I chose the Creighton Method for family planning
By Caitlin Estes • June 6, 2024…and then became a Certified FertilityCare Practitioner! -
Why this nurse became a Marquette Method instructor
By Annie Norton • May 21, 2024And the most fulfilling part of her work -
How I Overcame Resentment toward NFP for Less Frequent Sex
By Joseph Mariston • April 17, 2019For a man, sometimes practicing Natural Family Planning can feel like a no-sex plan. In July 2018, Natural… -
Men and NFP: When the challenges of periodic abstinence feel unbearable
By Gerard Migeon • November 4, 2021Numerous studies show that the large majority of couples who practice NFP feel it improves their marital relationships,… -
Husbands Share Their Thoughts on NFP
By Lindsay Schlegel • October 19, 2018It’s fair to say that using Fertility Awareness-Based Methods (FABMs) to achieve or avoid a pregnancy will change… -
Mistaken Conception (Or The Time I Thought NFP Let Me Down)
By Jeanne Marie • February 28, 2018The most accurate results are obtained in the morning, the instructions pointed out. I clutched the unopened pregnancy…