2/13/09
I couldn't sleep last night...
So I went on my message board and there was something that really interested me. I am a pretty open person so I will tell you what interested me. If any of you readers don't know, I have had horrible reactions to all forms of hormonal birth control that I have been on. The worst being Depo. Anyway, over a year ago Endrit and I looked into the Sympto-Thermal natural family planning. We have used it successfully for avoiding for 19 cycles now. I have never felt better in my life. It is awesome! Anyway, the message board I am on is for NFP support. There was a case study that a university is doing to research the use of a fertility monitor for pregnancy avoidance. Endrit and I signed up for it! It will be approximately a year of trying to avoid based on this method of natural family planning. I wanted to write this here because I just wanted to tell people about this in case anyone else wanted to join in on the study. Here is the link to the site to sign up. It is for pregnancy avoidance. I know that natural family planning isn't right for everyone, but it has been amazing for Endrit and I. It would be nice to have other people in real life to talk to about it if anyone is interested. If you are in the monitor group, you get a free $200 monitor and an initial supply of test strips, then you buy them for ~$1 each where you use 10 per cycle. Cheaper than any other BCP that I have used. I am doing this because I really want to be a part of a group that can show that NFP really does work when people are committed to it. If you are interested in any part of fertility I would have you read Toni Weschler's "Taking Charge of Your Fertility". It has been the most freeing book I have ever read.
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I have also had bad reactions to hormone based birth control methods! We even tried the NuvaRing which supposedly uses the lowest effective does of hormones - the lowest of any product on the market - and I still couldn't handle it.
So, just to keep me from being sick, we've used condoms and the rhythm, or avoidance method, and got two kids that way ;)
To be in the study how long to you have to do it?
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