Natural Methods

What is the
Natural Family Planning

Natural family planning is a set of methods used to delay or achieve a pregnancy. It is based on the monitoring of the woman’s fertility and on bringing the rhythms of the sexual activity of the spouses to said fertility. These methods help to live parenthood responsibly for conception or limitation of births.

 

In Marital Love and Responsible Parenthood, natural methods are defined as “a way of loving each other more and better” and “a treasure available to all.”, Making it clear from the beginning that it is not a contraception technique, but “an exciting way to live, based on dignity, health and morals, which will save marriages, teaching them to live their parenthood happily and in a natural way.”

Natural Methods of Fertility Awareness

How does it work?

There are several ways to do family planning with natural methods: the symptothermal method, the ovulation method, the billings method, or all in combination. They are similar in that they all start from two scientifically verifiable facts: 1st. That the man is fertile every day of his life while the woman, on the other hand, is only a few days of the month. 2nd. That female fertility has signs that the couple can learn to recognize so that by abstaining from sexual intercourse on those days, they can avoid pregnancy or, on the contrary, responsibly plan the gestation of a new life.

Methods and marital self-giving love

The Billings and syntothermic methods

The Methods in special cases

Looking for pregnancy

Countless couples around the world are waiting to conceive a child who does not arrive, which causes them real pain and suffering. Some of them go to artificial fertilization mistakenly thinking that it is the only way. It is proven that with Natural Methods pregnancies are easily achieved without affecting the health of the baby.

Looking for pregnancy

The Church and Responsible Parenthood

The Catholic Church has never said that sex is a bad thing, but it must be ordered, within marriage, and always open to life. The Church recognizes that fertility is a gift, a blessing for marriage but also a great responsibility. The Church recalls in Humane Vitae that, “the responsible exercise of parenthood requires that spouses fully recognize their own duties to God, to themselves, to the family and society, in a just hierarchy of values.”

 

Natural methods is not a form of contraception, but open to life, marriage is adjusted to the fertility of the woman. This is a natural way to space the births of children and responsibly embrace the gift of life.

The Church and the responsible parenthood

The use of methods based on 'natural rithms of fertility' should be promoted. These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, foster affection between them, and promote the education of real freedom.

Pope Francis, “Amoris Laetitia” (pt.222)

How are the methods learned?

There are manuals, courses, workshops to inform and teach everything about natural methods. All of them are planned in such a way that the couple learn together the physiological signs of the woman’s fertility (discharge and viscosity of the vaginal mucosa, basal temperature, puncture in the lower abdomen, etc.) in order to regulate their sexual activity according to the signs that nature itself offers them.

 

Learning all this does not have any complications and carrying it out only involves two minutes a day that become a good routine that is seen as one more habit of personal hygiene.

There are many organizations that offer courses on Natural Methods, here are some.
Catholic parents have the duty to educate their children according to their faith.

Which are the natural methods

There are several ways to do family planning with natural methods: the symptothermal method, the ovulation method, the billings method, or all in combination. They are similar in that they all start from two scientifically verifiable facts: 1st. That the man is fertile every day of his life while the woman, on the other hand, is only a few days of the month. 2nd. That female fertility has signs that the couple can learn to recognize so that by abstaining from sexual intercourse on those days, they can avoid pregnancy or, on the contrary, responsibly plan the gestation of a new life.

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