NFP

Ok to start from the very beginning... I think it's pretty much safe to say that DH (dear husband) and I practice natural family planning, specifically the Couple to Couple League's version of the sympto-thermal method. No, this is NOT the rhythm method!!! It is completely in line with the Catholic Church's teaching on the Theology of the Body, and has truly been a blessing in our marriage (all 11 months of it!). Not only do we practice NFP to avoid conceiving children during serious times, but we used it to conceive our first baby on our first try. :-)

The running joke is that my family does *not* have fertility issues (I have 5 siblings!) so it was no surprise really that we conceived on our first try! I think though, after doing research and realizing that many people have fertility issues initially, that it really was a miraculous that things have worked out so well so far.

I really, firmly believe that a woman should understand what she does to her body when she uses artificial birth control, and that each woman should understand the cycles of her own body. It is NORMAL for a woman *not* to have 28 day cycles- something I didn't know until after I learned NFP. I thought I was broken, or that something was wrong with me, and that wasn't the case at all! Instead, each woman has a unique way in which they were made, which makes each and every woman's cycle different from the next womans. Yes, some could set their clock by their period, but it doens't mean there's nothing wrong if others can't.

I'm not trying to evangelize here. This is my blog, you're choosing to read it. That said, I hope you enjoy following along with DH and I during our first pregnancy!