What Women Wish They had Learned about Their Bodies

“A magnificent symphony,”[i] has been used to describe the interplay of hormones in the woman’s body which allows for a “fertile window” in which conception of a new life as possible each month.

Listen as Sister Anna Marie McGuan, RSM, speaks with Sister Mary Gretchen Hoffman, RSM, MD.   Dr Hoffman describes the advances in the use of knowledge of signs and symptoms to predict fertility to allow couples to use these rhythms to achieve or to avoid conception when necessary.  Dr. Hoffman is a provider for Fertility Education and Medical Management (FEMM), which teaches women to use both physiologic signs and hormone levels to predict the fertile window.  This is a frank discussion that may help answer all the things you ever wanted to ask about “natural family planning.”

July 23, 2023 – July 29, 2023 is National NFP Awareness Week in the United States.  See the links below.

Women’s Health and Reproduction | Listen to the Podcast

 

 

Learn about FEMM

 

 

Check out the FEMM APP

 

 

 

 

 

National NFP Awareness Week | #NFP

 

 

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Featured image credit:

“Plasma Levels of Estradiol, FSH and LH during Menstrual Cycle.” Wikimedia Commons, September 27, 2009. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hormones_in_menstrual_cycle.png.  From Stricker R, Eberhart R, Chevailler MC, Quinn FA, Bischof P, Stricker R. Establishment of detailed reference values for luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, estradiol, and progesterone during different phases of the menstrual cycle on the Abbott ARCHITECT analyzer. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2006;44(7):883-887. doi:10.1515/CCLM.2006.160.

[i] McGuan, Sr Anna Marie, hosts “Women’s Health and Reproduction.” Scripture and the Spiritual Life (podcast), July 17, 2023, accessed July 24, 2023 dokchristianformation.libsyn.com/womens-health-and-reproduction.

 

 

Posted for National NFP Week 2023

July 25, 2023