Natural Family Planning

Finding a Natural Family Planning (NFP) Class

Currently, there are distance learning methods approved by the USCCB that can be found here: NFP Distance Learning. Please note, if you choose to use one of these methods, you would register and pay directly with the organization you choose.

Articles, Links, and Resources for NFP

Do you want to learn about Natural Family Planning? Are you currently practicing NFP and have questions or need information? Watch these helpful videos!

Why We Love NFP	Why we don't use contraception in our marriage
Why you should get off the pill	Desiring to grow in holiness

Additional Resources

What Is NFP?	Isn’t NFP Just Catholic “Birth Control?”	NFP is a Low-Profile But Best-For-You Method	NFP and Contraception (the difference)
The Nitty-Gritty of NFP	The Top Ten Reasons To Use NFP	Green Sex: What is it?	How Knowing Your Fertility Can Catch Diseases
Jason Evert - Natural Family Planning	Why NFP?	NFP: The Best Worst Thing Ever	VIDEO What Is NFP?
This Is Your Cycle In 2 Minutes	Pure - Live the Love	What Is NFP?	sn't NFP Just Catholic Contraception?

What Are Men Saying About NFP?

12 Reasons Men Should Use Natural Birth Control	What Practicing NFP is Like: One Man Shares His Thoughts	A Nod To the Five Love Languages	A Letter From a Father to His Daughter
Be Her Joseph	12 Reasons Men Choose Natural Birth Control	Burned by NFP	NFL QB Philip Rivers Talks About NFP

Relationships & NFP?

No Better Aphrodisiac: Why NFP?	Is Natural Family Planning Unnatural For Relationships?	NFP Uncensored: Self-discipline	How To Ruin Your Marriage With NFP
The Catholic Bedroom: Learning to Love Through NFP	A Couple Shares Their Change of Heart	How A 90 Day 'Sex Fast' Changed Terry Crews' Marriage

Natural Family Planning Organizations and Practitioners

Creighton Fertility Method Instruction

Sympto-Thermal Method Class

illings Ovulation Method Instruction

NFP for Single Women and Teens

Teaching Your Teen to Chart Her Cycle Could Literally Save Her Life	Cycle mindfulness: What Happens When You Teach Fertility Awareness to Teen Girls	Does Breastfeeding Prevent You From Getting Pregnant?
Women Speak on NFP: Navigating NFP Post Partum	I’m Single and I Love NFP. Here’s Why…	Uncensored: Single and Charting
Who Will Teach Fertility Awareness to My Daughter?	Teen STAR	Five Reasons Teen Girls Should Learn to Chart

Struggles Using NFP

The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Burden of Natural Family Planning - Part 1	Not For The Perfect: How I Came To Accept, And Value, NFP
The Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Burden of Natural Family Planning - Part 2

Efficacy & NFP

FACTS Research About Fertility Awareness Methods WEBPAGE	The Performance of Fertility Awareness-based Method Apps Marketed to Avoid Pregnancy
How We Rewrote Planned Parenthood's page on Fertility Awareness by Gerard Migeon	When Condoms Actually Increase the Likelihood of Pregnancy: Wait, what?!
New Cycle Tracking App Study Risks Misleading Many

NFP Witness

Simcha Fisher Speaks on Her Experience With Natural Family Planning for N.F.P. Awareness Week	Catholics Matter: Natural Family Planning- A Witness	NFP Couples Share Their Stories
The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning	Med School Pregnancies AND IUDs	YouTube Star Explains What Convinced Her the Church is Right on Contraception
Teaching Couple Says Natural Family Planning Offers Theological, Environmental and Relational Benefits	What NFP Looks Like for Our Family Right Now

Unplanned Pregnancy and NFP

Mistaken Conception (Or The Time I Thought NFP Let Me Down)

My Unintended Joy Is My Greatest Gift

Infertility, IVF, NFP

Endometriosis, Infertility, and the Church	Hope for Married Couples Who Want to Have a Child	When You Should See a Doctor for Infertility
Unexplained Infertility is Not Always Unexplainable	How Fertility Awareness Reduces Risk of Miscarriage	The Hidden Costs of IVF: Heartbreak, Health Risks, and Helplessness
Dr. Anne Nolte - Infertility and NaPro Technology	You Me and NFP - Infertility & NaPro

Perimenopause and NFP

Surviving Perimenopause: A Guide for Couples

Premenopause Online Classes Information

The Natural Survival Kit to Perimenopause

Postpartum & Breastfeeding with NFP

How to Manage Breastfeeding and Natural Family Planning	Couples Speak About Postpartum NFP	SymptoPro Blog Article - Practicing NFP and Breastfeeding
How Do I Speak to PostPartum NFP When ... I Got Pregnant?	Postpartum is Unpredictable - Even for NFP Teachers	This Couple Went A Year Without Sex (and lived to tell the tale)
Does Breastfeeding Prevent You From Getting Pregnant?	Women Speak on NFP: Navigating NFP Post Partum

Contraception Issues and NFP

Can the Copper IUD Harm Your Health and Fertility?	Hormonal Contraceptives Increase Breast Cancer Risk: A Doctor’s Report on Why	Effects of the Pill (Including Cervical Aging)
Oral Contraceptives Cause Low Vitamin B6 and Zinc, Reduce Serotonin Levels and Increase Anxiety	The Crucial Difference Between Progesterone and Progestins	Those Catholic Women Who Use Contraception
Contraception: Why Not? A Transcript of Dr. Janet Smith's Talk	9 Ways Non-Catholics Are Turning Against Contraception	9 Reasons Catholics Oppose Contraception
Contraception and IVF Have Damaged Our society. Humanae Vitae Offers a Better Answer	What an Irregular Period Means, and How the Pill Doesn’t Help	The Economics of Sex

The Pill

Getting Off the Pill: 4 Key Ways to Achieve a Healthy Transition	Coming Off the Pill into Fertility Awareness: Prepare for These Symptoms	Coming Off The Pill With Good Nutrition
Can I Chart When I'm On The Pill?	Is The Pill Wrecking Your Gut?	How the Pill Switches Off Hormones and Why That Matters
Women Want to Know: Does The Pill Cause Abortion?	What Is the Problem With Contraception

Humanae Vitae

Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI, 1968	Humanae Vitae: 50 Years Later by Ellen Gable Hrkach	How “Humanae Vitae” Helped One Nun Find Her Feminist Voice
The Cost of Contraception and the Joy of the Gospel of Life	'Humanae Vitae' Saves Marriages, Says Minneapolis bishop	Keep Love Loving and Open to God
An Evangelical’s Guide to Humanae Vitae	3 Ways Humanae Vitae Changed This Protestant’s Views On Sex And Family	50 Years Ago A Pope Predicted That Because Of Birth Control These Things Would Happen
Because of Humanae Vitae..." Couple Witness	Bishop Robert Barron - The Prophesies of Pope Paul VI

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