This is the place where women finally get the health info they deserve (and should have been given as preteens).
This is where men actually get to be involved in the process of shared fertility.
And this is where couples are given the tools and resources to discern God's will for their family.
If you've looked around my site and thought, "Why did no one teach me all this before?!", then you are in the right place.
We currently have providers offering:
All of our BCC and FEMM instructors offer free discovery calls. For a more in-depth, personalized Method Matching Session, reach out to Tori Franke to learn more.
Our current Pearl & Thistle team members are certified NFP providers who operate their own independent practices and would LOVE to consult with you to find out if their method would be a good fit.
teach NFP according to the standards of their method
adhere to Catholic moral teaching with NFP (i.e., no barrier or back up methods)
respect the instructor/client relationship by honoring the discernment of the couple and maintaining professional standards of privacy
happily refer potential or current clients to a different method.
Method: Boston Cross Check
Method: FEMM
Method: Boston Cross Check
Natural Family Planning (NFP) is a large umbrella term for any method of regulating pregnancy that uses natural fertility markers to determine when a woman is capable of getting pregnant (as opposed to blocking pregnancy altogether with contraception or barrier methods).
All NFP methods follow the same general pattern of observing and tracking fertility cues and using those cues to interpret whether or not a woman could conceive that day. Couples then follow guidelines regarding intercourse depending on whether or not they want to avoid or achieve a pregnancy. The differences among methods lie in which fertility cues they employ, how detailed the observations of those cues are, and which rules are used to determine the start and end of fertility each month (the couple’s “Fertile Window”).
If our team and/or methods don't seem like the right fit, check out these other methods, to see if one of them is right for you!
Billings
Boston Cross Check
Couple to Couple League
Creighton (Fertility Care)
Cycle Beads
Family of the Americas
Marquette Model
NFP International
Sensiplan
Symptopro
Please note: Pearl & Thistle is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to any specific Natural Family Planning (NFP) method or its training organizations. Our educators are independently trained and certified in the methods they teach.