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Friday podcast, episode number 600. Today I have what I think is an exciting episode, only because it's one of the topics that I love getting into, which is, is fertility awareness too difficult for women?

This is an important episode for you if you are using the method personally.

We'll talk about a few very important things to consider in order to ensure that you get the

highest efficacy when using fertility awareness-based methods. But this episode is also important

if you are a provider, if you are a woman's health professional.

It's really important to face some of the challenges that result in unintended pregnancy head on if you want to engage with fertility awareness-based methods.

This study, I find to be so fascinating because it does show a lot of the

trends that I've seen working with clients over the years. It does give some insight into

the relationship between how well that user effectiveness number correlates with your

client's actions and intentions. And it really

touches on the complexity of this topic of either avoiding or trying to conceive.

So before I get into it, let me share a little bit about the study. So the title of the study is really long. I'll just read a portion of it.

Pregnancies, intentions, and fertility behaviors during use of the Creighton model fertility care system after initial intention to avoid pregnancy. So that's a mouthful, but the Creighton model is a mucus only

method with a very detailed charting system, similar to the detailed charting system that we

teach our practitioners in the FAM program. But it is a mucus only method. And so as we'll talk about

in this study, they had several users. So they gathered nearly

300 users of this method. And in the study, they had them identify each cycle if their intention

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