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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Fertility awareness methods (FAM) offer midwives a powerful, evidence-based framework to support cycle literacy, natural family planning, and postpartum care. In this episode, Lisa interviews Kate Chantry, a licensed midwife of 14 years, who shares how she integrates FAM tools and teachings from the Fertility Awareness Mastery Mentorship (FAMM) into her rural Wisconsin midwifery practice.
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| 0:00.0 | Each fertility awareness to your clients and specialize in advanced menstrual chart interpretation. |
| 0:07.2 | Registration is officially open for our fertility awareness mastery mentorship certification. |
| 0:13.3 | Classes start in January of 26, and early bird registration is open until November the 14th. |
| 0:20.2 | Head over to fertility friday.com |
| 0:22.6 | slash fam live to apply today. That's fertility friday.com slash F-A-M-L-I-V-E. This is the Fertility |
| 0:31.0 | Friday podcast, episode number 599. In 99. |
| 0:48.6 | In today's episode, we are diving into what it looks like to bring fertility awareness into your midwifery practice from postpartum charting to educating clients who prefer natural methods of birth |
| 0:56.4 | control and even dispelling myths about the rhythm method, we really cover it all. And this episode |
| 1:03.7 | really brings some insight into how our practitioners really incorporate our fertility awareness, |
| 1:09.6 | training, and strategies into their work with |
| 1:12.0 | clients. So before we dive in, let me tell you a little bit about our guest Kate Chantry. |
| 1:18.2 | Kate is a wife, mother of two, licensed midwife of 14 years, certified our Vigo Maya abdominal |
| 1:24.5 | therapist and spinning babies aware practitioner in rural southwest Wisconsin. |
| 1:30.4 | Kate is the third oldest of nine children, eight of whom were born at home, and the youngest |
| 1:35.8 | she witnessed being born peacefully at home supported by midwives. This foundation of home birth |
| 1:41.8 | midwifery with the strong belief that we are fearfully and wonderfully |
| 1:45.6 | made set a foundation for Kate in wanting to support women during the childbearing years |
| 1:50.7 | as a community midwife and body worker. Kate loves learning and adding to her toolkit of how she |
| 1:56.6 | can support women and their families, especially in ways that restore trust in how we are created to |
| 2:02.6 | be. So without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into my interview with Kate. |
| 2:12.4 | I'm excited to be here today with Kate. Welcome to the show. Thank you, Lisa. Well, I always love these |
| 2:19.9 | episodes, like a broken record over here. But I find them fascinating because by this point, |
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