While I have two kids already, most of my friends are either TTC (trying to conceive), pregnant, or are trying hard not to get to pregnant. They either belong to “cant wait to have another baby” or “I don’t want to have a baby YET” category. We all have one thing in common though: We plan. While pills are becomingly increasingly popular for birth control, most of my friends (and I) go the natural way: the Rhythm method or the Natural Planning way. A friend even has a bead bracelet depicting her cycle to help her keep track of her fertile days.
If you are most of the time online (like me), you can use the ovulation calendar at Gurgle.com to predict your fertile days. You just need to input when your last monthly period started and how long your cycle usually lasts and they will predict when you’re most fertile over the next twelve months.
They even have a contest running for a whole year supply of Comfort Pure fabric conditioner! If you want to enter, just click here.
As for us, we don’t have any plans of adding a third baby in the near future. We still have a lot of plans and we wouldn’t be able to financially support three kids with me not working and the two kids going to school next year (argh!!!!) so yes, no baby # 3 yet.
by A.M. Floyd
23 Dec 2008 at 05:32
My husband and I have been trained teachers of Natural Family Planning for 30 years, users for 38. Thus you can believe me when I assure you that the most highly effective methods of Natural Family Planning–equivalent to the pill–are the Ovulation Method and the Sympto-Thermal Method. The Ovulation Calendar, the Bead Bracelet and the Rhythm Method are all the same method: they predict when you may ovulate based on the length of your past cycles, which can be up to 80% effective for women in their twenties and early thirties whose cycles are extremely regular, who never get sick, never work night shifts and never have emotional upsets. The Rhythm Method is the Model T of NFP. If you are going shopping for a computer, do you settle for a PET? Or a TANDY? Or a 286? Naturally not, you want the ’state of the art.’ Why settle for the oldest method of Natural Family Planning developed over 60 years ago when you can choose from two modern methods supported by current, ongoing scientific research, taught by several organizations across North America? Google any of these for more info: Couple to Couple League, Serena Canada, Creighton Model, WOOMB, Natural Family Planning Organization.