God made it is easy. The world has complicated it.

I have been so super swamped the past couple of weeks. When will it stop =) I am still so in awe of how all of this NFP stuff is coming together. It really is amazing. I cannot wait to start helping couples find the true beauty in their marriage.

First:

Needed prayers.

I know so many women who are all going through different circumstances right now. Some are in their 40's, desperately wanting another child and unable to conceive. Some are engaged and trying for the first time to understand their bodies. Some are nursing their babies and wondering how they are going to put a little space between their baby and their next child. Some are just now hearing about NFP for the first time ever. They are currently using artificial means to prevent a pregnancy. They are seeking out the truth and asking questions. All of these women need prayers. Al of these women need support.

Second:

My rant.

I know that the title of this blog seems like a planned parenthood term, but it is really not. It is a simple term, that planned parenthood distorted. Just like the term, feminist. That was distorted as well. We are feminists here. We are for women. We want women to be able to be the wonderful humans that God created them to be. NFP welcomes this and encourages this. It really is the mantra throughout most of the literature you read concerning NFP.

i.e. NFP is a method of family planning

that allows the husband to respect the woman's natural fertility.

All of the women that I described above are all seeking to know their natural fertility in a better way. God lays it all out right in front of us. I have always been amazed in the simplicity that God used in creating us.

Third:

I thought I would start leaving you with something that you could really share with someone else.

Is it really this easy? Yes, it is!!

Husband and wife are making observations of the wife's fertility.

She charts 5 days of menses.

Then she receives the sign that her body is dry

and her uterine lining is beginning to prepare a home for a potential new life.

At some point, she begins to notice a thick, sometimes cloudy secretion on her toilet tissue. 
The next couple of days she may notice that the secretion becomes clearer, thinner and stretchier. 
Before long it will be almost like water. 
It is at this point that she is most fertile. 


Now let's step back...

What just happened here?

As her secretions were thinning out,

her body was making all sorts of preparations for a new life.

This slippery secretion is one that sperm just love.

They get in this secretion and are having the time of their life.

It is nourishing to them and revitalizes them.

It makes them swim faster and survive longer.

Also, when sperm are inside the male's body, before they are released,

they are in an alkaline environment.

At this point in the woman's cycle

her secretions have changed her uterine environment from being acidic to alkaline.

It's kinda like when you buy a goldfish

and you have to make sure when you put it in a new tank

the water must be the same temperature, or the fish will die.

Same thing with the sperm.

When the woman is dry and acidic the sperm die within 2 hours,

but when the environment is alkaline, they not only survive they thrive.

During this time of high fertility,

the woman is also more attracted to her husband than at any other time in her cycle.

She is drawn to him like a magnetic force.

God made it this way, in His pure genius.

Folks, this is how babies are made!!!

If the couple is avoiding a pregnancy,

she would wait 3 to 4 days after her secretion has changed back to thick.

This thick secretion is the mucous plug that is released just before delivering a baby.

God puts it there after the woman has ovulated, just in case a baby is created,

as a means of protection.

When a woman notices that this pattern of secretion has taken place,

she knows she has ovulated and marital relations can occur once again.

Why is this cycle considered a disease?

Why do women feel like they must take life threatening means to prevent this from happening?

Why can't they see that making simple observations everyday

can prevent a pregnancy from occurring?

God made it is easy. The world has complicated it.

So, go out and share the simplicity of God's design!!

God Bless,

Kim