What is Natural Family Planning?
Natural Family Planning (NFP) is a general term for fertility awareness-based methods of family planning that are science-based, accurate, natural, healthy and effective.
The Catholic FertilityCare™ Center of WNY provides instruction in the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System (CrMS) of Natural Family Planning. When using this system, a woman observes changes in her cervical mucus and menstrual patterns to determine when she is fertile and infertile.
To be effective in avoiding pregnancy, couples choose to engage in intercourse during the infertile phases of the woman’s cycle and abstain from intercourse during the fertile time.