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This is Fertility Awareness / Natural Family Planning[1], branded in a way that will be more palatable to a secular Silicon Valley audience. My wife and I use
by nsxwolf 13y ago
This is Fertility Awareness / Natural Family Planning[1], branded in a way that will be more palatable to a secular Silicon Valley audience.
My wife and I use NFP. This is actually the slickest app I've ever seen.
It's pretty reliable if you want to use it for birth control, provided the woman has at least somewhat regular cycles. Even with irregular cycles, there's useful information that can be gleaned from cervical mucus and basal body temperature.
It's probably not for people who absolutely cannot tolerate one or two "surprise" children, but it will at least prevent you from becoming the Duggars if that's not your thing.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_family_planning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_family_planning
- ntaso 13y agoSorry to say so, but you're wrong about two things: 1. A women doesn't have to have a regular cycle for this method to be safe. Why? Because if the cycle is irregular, the cycle cannot be evaluated / charted and you have to assume fertility. 2. The method is as safe as the pill. The risk for getting "surprise children" is the same as with the pill.
- nsxwolf 13y agoFor your objection to (1), you'd be right if we were talking about the rhythm method, but we aren't. There are other signs of impending fertility that can be tracked.