Natural Family Planning is the best! It is 99.9% effective! My husband and I are NFP practicing...it does wonders for the sex life too! :) Check out the Couple to Couple League...plus all those birth controls are dangerous for you...there are things that your doctor might not be telling you...do your research...its your life don't let others decide it for you! Good luck...remember bring a life is a blessing....something only you and your husband can truly, fully, honestly, enjoy! :)

I'm a newlywed as of January 2009. My husband and I have as well been using the Sympto-Thermal Method with much success! We use condoms on days where I'm most fertile. I feel confident not having to put additional chemicals in my body and emotionally I feel confident concerning some of the pill's unpublicized side effects like its method of at times preventing implantation of a fertilized egg (a baby in my opinion). A few of the many medical sites this is noted: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a
601050.html; http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/birth-control/BI0
0014; http://www.medicinenet.com/oral_contraceptives_bir
th_control_pills/article.htm. Some helpful sites/resources I've found for learning about the Natural Family Planning Method: http://www.ccli.org/. We used the book "The Art of Natural Family Planning® Student Guide" to learn the techniques. The down sides include a bit of work taking my temperature in the morning and having to use condoms or abstain during portions of my cycle.

My fiance and I are talking about practicing NFP, but I would like to read a good book about it. We are planning to attend a class in April. Does anyone know how long you need to chart before you can safely practice sex? We are getting married in June and I want to know if I should start now or wait until after the honeymoon. Thanks guys!

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Like many other responders I am using a natural family planning method. We choose to use the Billings Method. It's simple to follow and now I'll know be confident when we decide to try. Just make sure your hubs is ok with abstaining or using a condom for about a week and a half each month (including your period) I couldn't be happier with our success so far.

I have been using the pill for about three months now and get nauseous my first week on a new pack every time. My husband and I have been married for a month but really want to use another method because both he and I hate that I spend some late nights on the couch trying to fall asleep since I am nauseous (past 2 nights and the entire week before the wedding). The pill just doesn't make me feel normal and I think decreases my drive on that week. When we went through marriage classes my husband and I were really interested in NFP but were scared to try it at the time. We were not sexually active before marriage and wanted to make sure I wasn't on my period during the honeymoon...so the pill was the only answer. My sisters tried NFP be admitted to not restraining themselves when they should have at times haha......the only reason it resulted in "unplanned children". Anyone here switch from the pill to NFP? Do you ever use condoms during the fertile time? or would you recommend it? Know of any online classes? I do also feel guilty being a good Catholic girl and all.

my husband's mom and dad practiced NFP and the result was 9 children. sorry guys. i'm against the pill and all those unnatural things too, but condoms work for us, not to mention im a fertile mertile and get pregnant the first night we try to have a baby (we have 2 children, and planned their due dates to the day)...NFP doesn't work for everybody!