Sympto-Hormonal Method: FEMM
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- Tell us a little about yourself.Married in January, ended up starting our married with being thrown into infertility, I am a biomedical engineer so I have been trying to use ALL the tech to get pregnant and am now under NaPro care because I couldn’t get my progesterone to increase. I am a recent convert who did a 180 and now 100% agrees with the churches teaching on birth control based on our experiences with infertility.
- What effects has fertility awareness had on your relationship?Not going to lie targeted intercourse puts a lot of stress on a marriage. I feel like that is the one thing no one tells you about infertility or talks about. Sex has become a chore.
- How did you find your instructor?Through my doctor’s office. My doctor bills my insurance.
- Describe your daily charting routine.I take oral BBT every morning. I sync my temp drop every morning. The first half of my cycle I take an insane number of LH tests to try to determine my peak, we have targeted intercourse and because I am supplementing progesterone vaginally the second half of my cycle we abstain. It is really stressful.
- What made you choose this method?FEMM is through my doctor’s office otherwise I would just go by LH testing and BBT to determine my peak. I still like less subjective methods than mucus but I gotta do what the doctor wants.
- Has charting helped you to understand your overall health?We immediately realized I have a luteal phase defect. I produce hardly any progesterone myself unfortunately and it also greatly affects my mood the second half of my cycle.
- Did you switch to this method from another one? If so, why?I only switched because my doctor’s office asked me to. Don’t tell them I said this but I think trying to decipher my mucus is like reading tea leaves.
