NFP Success Story #4: Catholic Commitment

After receiving further training in the method, we were recruited to make introductory presentations to engaged couples in the Toronto area.

We returned to the US in 1993. We now have two beautiful children, ages 10 and 7 years. We have stopped keeping daily records of signs of fertility. Veronica’s cycles tend to be very regular, which makes for easy observations of the times of fertility and infertility. We find that charts are no longer necessary. True teachers of the Billings Ovulation Method would probably say that we are not strict adherents to the method because we are not charting. We do, however, still use the principles learned over the past several years. It’s nice to be in the position of not trying to conceive, while remaining open to the possibility of having more children.”

For more information about the Catholic Church’s teachings on NFP, please see the links under the heading of “Catholic Connection.”

For more information on the Billings Ovulation Method, please see the links under the heading of “Billings Method.”

(1) These figures come from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth done by the National Center for Health Statistics and reported in the article “How Many Couples Use NFP?” by John F. Kippley on the website www.ccli.org in January 2002.

(2) I compiled this list generally from the many “testimonials” of Catholic couples that I have read or heard over the last year.

(3) This research is reported in the article “Marital Duration and Natural Family Planning” published on the website www.ccli.org in February 2002.

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