NFP After a Baby

How Do We Use NFP While Breastfeeding?

My wife and I would like to know how to successfully practice NFP during the nursing phase. We have been in NFP for six+ years now and have three kids close together. The first two we planned that way, the third was a surprise due to inaccuracy with using the method. We are at a place now where we would... [Read more...]

Need Postpartum NFP Refresher

My name is Amanda and my husband and I are devout Catholics looking into starting NFP. I have 15-month-old boy/girl twins and just had another child (a boy) on the 14th of August this year. Both of my pregnancies went great. It was after I delivered the babies that I had problems. I hemmhoraged really... [Read more...]

Confused by Mucus and Temperature Conflicting

Hopefully you will be able to help me clarify my chart right now. I am nine months postpartum, and started cycling 37 days ago. I had a full period which lasted six days, followed by a normal dry period. Then I began with some sticky mucus, leading up to egg white mucus and brownish pink mucus on day... [Read more...]

No Mucus But Cervix High

I have a three month old son, and still trying to figure out how to practice NFP postpartum. I have been doing mucus checks and have very little to no mucus. I noticed that my cervix is high and open, even with no mucus. Does this indicate a time of fertility? Thank you, Erica Read More →

Continuous Mucus Post Partum

Hi, I am a fairly new user of NFP. I had my second baby six weeks ago and have been breastfeeding exclusively. For the past three weeks I have had constant peak-type mucus. Twice there have been two consecutive days of sticky mucus. I can’t possibly be fertile this whole time, right? Kelly Read More →

Breastfeeding: Can I be Fertile Before I Have a Period?

Our daughter is five months old and I’m exclusively breastfeeding on demand. We’ve been using this as our birth control but I know that it might not work as well after she starts solid foods in the next month or two. My question is, if I still don’t have a period, can I be fertile,... [Read more...]

Infertile with Short Luteal Phase?

We’re using NFP to prevent pregnancy, no other contraception. Ds is eight months old and breastfed. I have short cycles (23 day avg.) with short luteal phase (avg three to five days). Since I get my period on what would be my first infertile day post-ovulation, I don’t have any infertile... [Read more...]

NFP While Breastfeeding

My wife and I would like to know how to successfully practice NFP during the nursing phase. We have been in NFP for 6+ years now and have three kids close together. The first two we planned that way, the third was a surprise due to inaccuracy with using the method. We are at a place now where we would... [Read more...]

Pumping Exclusviely and Taking Temp Daily

My wife has been strictly pumping, and not breastfeeding, our ten week old baby girl. We’ve been charting temperature every morning, but not checking the mucus or cervix observations. I assume that the general NFP rule of the “3rd normal shift” indicates beginning of Phase III, correct?... [Read more...]

Avoiding a Pregnancy While Nursing Pre-Term Infant

Question regarding NFP and Breastfeeding I am currently seven weeks post-partum and breastfeeding exclusively, if not ecologically. I had a complicated pregnancy and c-section and my doctor warned I should not conceive for at least a year. This is my 4th baby and second c-section. I am a devout Catholic... [Read more...]