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Hannah has a passion for teaching women to interpret their fertile signs. She is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator who trained with Grace of the Moon, she has a wealth of knowledge in the field of Fertility Awareness and hormone health, and I am happy to have her on the show today!
In today’s episode, we talk about using the Fertility Awareness Method to prevent pregnancy and how the Fertility Awareness Method can be used in conjunction with other forms of non-hormonal birth control methods such as condoms, withdrawal, and the diaphragm among others. We discuss how the Fertility Awareness Method can be the perfect birth control option for control freaks, and how being able to identify your fertile window can put the control back into your hands!
Topics discussed in today’s episode
- How to overcome your fears and get started with the Fertility Awareness Method
- How does the Fertility Awareness Method work as birth control to prevent pregnancy?
- What are some of the challenges that women face when they learning to use Fertility Awareness?
- How do you know if the Fertility Awareness Method is right for you?
- Why women can use Fertility Awareness even if they have irregular cycles, or are not in “long-term” or “committed” relationships
- How does a typical user use the Fertility Awareness Method in combination with other non-hormonal birth control options? (i.e. barrier methods like condoms and withdrawal)
- What does “perfect use” of withdrawal look like and how effective is withdrawal as a method of birth control?
- Why does using barrier methods or other forms of birth control during the fertile time lower the effectiveness of the method?
- How using Fertility Awareness can minimize the need for the “morning after pill” if you have an “accident”
- If you know that you want to get pregnant in the next few years when should you get off the pill?
Connect with Hannah!
You can connect with Hannah on her website: holistichormonalhealth.com on Facebook, and on Twitter:
Resources Mentioned
- Hannah Ransom | Holistic Hormonal Health
- Grace of the Moon – Fertility Awareness
- Justisse Method – Fertility Awareness
- What to expect when coming off hormonal contraceptives and how to speed up your return to healthy cycles – Hannah’s blog
- Herbal birth control – Hannah’s blog
- Kindara charting app
- Groove charting app
- Basal body thermometer
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Music Credit: Intro/Outro music Produced by Sirc of (The Nock)
Thanks for these podcasts! I’ve listened to all of them and really enjoy them. Unfortunately you cannot add a coverline to your chart in the Kindara app but you can add a coverline to your chart in the Kindara web portal. When you add it to your chart in the Kindara web portal it will not translate to the app though.
Thanks for listening! So glad you’re enjoying the podcast episodes 🙂 I’ve never tried the Kindara web portal, so that is great to know that I can draw the cover line that way. I’m hoping that at some point they’ll add that functionality to the app. I think it would help women to better interpret their charts especially when first starting out with FAM.
This is so great! Thanks!
Thanks Melissa!
I just began listening to your podcast and am really enjoying it; thank you for the great information! I do have a quick question: what is this visual/tactile difference between “sticky” mucus and your natural internal moisture? The difference wasn’t very clearly explained.
If you are checking for mucus internally you will see moisture every day, and that makes it harder to tell the difference. I teach a method that involves external checking. When you check externally you know it’s mucus if you can pick it up off the tissue and test it with your fingers.