Trying To Conceive
Optimize Your Reproductive Health
Knowing your fertile window can help you confidently plan your family - avoiding times that would be unnecessarily stressful for you, your family, or your growing babe. Being aware of your menstrual cycle and the changes that occur during your fertile window will help you have a better idea of when you are most likely to get pregnant and therefore optimize your chances of conception.
Even if you're not ready to start a family yet, using a natural and healthy way to avoid pregnancy prepares your body for the healthiest (eventual) pregnancy.
Factors That Affect Fertility
Age
A woman’s fertility consistently decreases after the age of 30, a man’s after 40. We spend most of our reproductive life trying NOT to get pregnant, with no thought about the our future fertility. Let a Femme Fertility professional equip you to start a family with honest expectations and open eyes. Optimize your chances of conception by starting naturally and only escalating to artificial intervention if it becomes beneficial or necessary. Learn to preserve your fertility.
Health Conditions
Factors that effect your overall health can also effect your fertility. Conversely, your fertility can be a helpful indicator of underlying health issues. Regular ovulation is only possible when your endocrine and reproductive systems are functioning normally.
Lifestyle
Set yourself up for success! Learn how to chart your menstrual cycle - giving you key insights into the subtle effects that food, travel, sleep, exercise, toxins in your environment, and previous contraceptive use have on your health.
Infertility
Before you decided to start trying for a baby, things may have seemed pretty straightforward: have sex; get pregnant. Unfortunately, according to one study, 1 out of every 5 couples take more than 12 months to conceive. Clinical infertility is defined as the inability to conceive or carry a pregnancy to term after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse. That's a long time to wait!
With NFP, you can start gaining valuable insight right away. Cycle charting creates an accurate record for you and your physician.
With Marquette Method NFP, you'll be able to identify the days of your cycle with the highest chances of conception, allowing you to focus your efforts at the optimal time.
If after 6 cycles of intercourse within the fertile window you haven’t conceived, you should seek assistance from an NFP-friendly physician.
Infertility diagnostics and treatment can be expensive. NFP provides a less expensive self-directed method that has been shown to increase fertility.
NFP can be used to help determine the cause of infertility, from mistiming of intercourse, to ovulatory dysfunction, to a short luteal phase. Couples with sub-fertility, with unknown reasons for infertility, or with mild male factor infertility might benefit from focused intercourse.
Awesome restorative reproductive technology exists and should be used when necessary. And while NFP alone may not be the sole solution to your infertility, it can help engender a holistic approach to achieving pregnancy. The woman and couple learn to approach fertility with a philosophy of total giving, mutual respect, and true love.
NFP can help a couple feel empowered to have an educated discussion with their physician about their infertility issues.
NFP engenders an acknowledgement that our fertility and children are gifts. This holistic approach acknowledges that we are more than a sum of our parts; our physical, psychological, mental, and spiritual health are not isolated from one another and must be considered as a whole.
You Are Unique
Your story, your grief, your background. All are as unique as you are. You may be feeling frustrated, stuck, or left behind. Primary infertility? Secondary infertility? Male factor infertility? Sub-fertility? Your infertility does not define you. Would you like to discuss your particular circumstances to see if Marquette Method NFP could be helpful for you?