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Fertility Awareness Method Essentials
A 12-week training in body literacy, cycle charting, and the science of fertility awareness
EVIDENCE-BASED METHOD · LEARN OVER 3 CYCLES · SELF-PACED
LEARN MOREWHAT THE METHOD IS
A science-based way to read your body's signals.
The Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) is a body literacy practice built on tracking three physical signs, cervical fluid, basal body temperature, and bleeding, to identify the fertile and non-fertile phases of your cycle.
The specific approach taught in this training is the symptothermal double-check method, the same method used in the most robust long-term research on fertility awareness to date.
This is not a calendar method, a rhythm method, or an app making predictions. It's based on reading your own real-time data, cycle by cycle.
EFFECTIVENESS, SOURCED
Up to 99.6% effective, with perfect use.
This figure comes from a 20-year prospective study of 900 women across more than 17,600 menstrual cycles, using the Sensiplan symptothermal method (Frank-Herrmann et al., Human Reproduction, 2007).
With perfect use and abstinence during the fertile window, the method was up to 99.6% effective at avoiding pregnancy. For couples who used condoms during the fertile window instead of abstaining, effectiveness was 99.4%. Typical use, where the method isn't followed exactly every cycle, brings the real-world number down, the same pattern seen with any contraceptive method, hormonal or otherwise.
Source: Frank-Herrmann P, Heil J, Gnoth C, et al. "The effectiveness of a fertility awareness based method to avoid pregnancy in relation to a couple's sexual behaviour during the fertile time." Human Reproduction, 22(5), 1310–1319 (2007). PMID: 17314078.
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