The Benefits of Natural Family Planning

nfp3Couples who choose to use Natural Family Planning experience many Benefits and Blessings as NFP is:
  • HEALTHY
    • No harmful or unwanted side effects from drugs, devices or chemicals that alter the reproductive system
    • Promotes self-awareness and can alert couples to potential health and/or fertility problems
    • Doesn’t endanger future fertility as some contraceptives do
  • EASY To learn and use
    • Takes just a few minutes a day to observe and chart the signs of fertility and interpret those signs
    • Three classes and personalized follow-up
    • Based on scientific principles and utilizes the latest reproductive science
    • Does not require regular cycles and can be used during breastfeeding and pre-menopause
  • EFFECTIVE
    • 99% method-effectiveness — when properly understood and practiced by a motivated couple
    • Recent studies in the US and other countries have yielded this rate
    • Same range of effectiveness as the Pill and IUD and more effective than barrier methods (condoms, diaphragms, spermicides) and the old Rhythm method
  • HELPFUL To couples desiring a pregnancy
    • Couples become aware of the most fertile days that helps increase the chances of conception
    • Natural strategies to optimize their mutual fertility are presented
  • LIFE RESPECTING
    • NFP doesn’t do anything to destroy life once it has begun
    • No early abortion effects, as with the Pill, IUD, Depo-Provera, implants, etc.
  • MORALLY ACCEPTABLE
    • Consistent with 2000 years of Catholic Church teaching and of other Christian churches up until 1930.
    • A balanced teaching encouraging couples to be neither selfish, nor careless, in the responsible planning of their families
  • ECOLOGICAL
    • No synthetic hormones are released into the environment to affect wildlife
    • No excess packaging and devices are disposed of
  • COMMUNICATION ENHANCING
    • Promotes communication on many levels—spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional
    • Encourages development of a larger vocabulary of love during the times of abstaining
    • Helps couples not take each other and their sexual relationship for granted
  • GOOD FOR MARRIAGES
    • Both husband and wife share the responsibility for family planning and learn to communicate about their sexuality in new ways
    • Couples discover that by accepting their fertility and living in harmony with it, they are rewarded with deep intimacy and peace of mind
    • Surveys show that the divorce rate among NFP-using couples is less than 5%
  • GOOD FOR CHILDREN
    • Helps parents appreciate children as gifts from God
    • Helps parents communicate healthy sexual attitudes to their children
    • INEXPENSIVE
      • Only $135.00 per couple for the full NFP course including all of the materials needed to successfully learn and use NFP and a year’s subscription to the bi-monthly Family Foundations Magazine
      • The payback vs. contraceptives is less than a year

    Best of all, by working with—instead of against—the way a woman’s body is designed, you’re also cooperating with God, in His plan for your marriage.

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