FFP 569 | Why Your Doctor Isn’t Recommending Fertility Awareness-Based Methods | FAMM Research Series
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🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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If you’re still wondering why your doctor isn’t recommending fertility awareness methods, I’m sharing a study that explains it all — in their own words too!
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| 0:23.6 | fertility friday dot com slash f a mw l this is the fertility friday podcast episode number |
| 0:30.6 | 569 in today's episode, I'm covering an interesting question. |
| 0:43.0 | Why your doctor isn't recommending fertility awareness-based methods? |
| 0:48.0 | And also why your doctor may not be as open to fertility awareness-based methods. |
| 0:56.8 | So one of the challenges with discovering fertility awareness is that when you start charting your cycles and you start becoming |
| 1:02.1 | more literate about your body, have more body literacy, you have a better understanding of your cycles, |
| 1:08.4 | many women have this naturally, seemingly natural inclination to then |
| 1:12.9 | race to their doctor. And whether it's that they were, you know, taking the pill before and they're |
| 1:17.8 | wanting to come off. And this is something I've talked about before, feeling the need to ask |
| 1:22.5 | permission from your doctor or inform your doctor that you're coming off hormonal contraceptive. |
| 1:26.4 | So going there and kind of expecting to have your doctor that you're coming off hormonal contraceptive. So going there and kind of |
| 1:28.5 | expecting to have your doctor's blessing or something for either having your IUD removed or coming |
| 1:34.4 | off of hormonal birth control. And often that is not, you know, the response that the doctor's not |
| 1:40.4 | giving you their blessing or happy about it. They're often really concerned, actually, |
| 1:44.8 | and wanting to discourage you. And I've spoken to many women who've even said their doctor |
| 1:50.6 | laughed at them and told them that, you know, fertility awareness doesn't work. And you know |
| 1:55.6 | that there's something we call people who use fertility awareness, parents, right? That old |
| 2:00.7 | joke that's not that funny. And a lot of |
| 2:03.5 | women are really alarmed by this, really confused by this. And often they had a really good |
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