Sympto-Hormonal Method: TCOYF temp/ FEMM mucus
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- Tell us a little about yourself.I’m a fertility awareness educator in training. By day, I work for my families HVAC business and my background is in library and information science. I used to work the youth services and then at a college. I have a great partner and a cat. We are looking to conceive in the next year. We enjoy being outside, going to the beach, and exploring local breweries and restaurants.
- How did you find your instructor?In a FAM fb group. She charged $150 for three sessions and a follow up. I had follow up support.
- Describe your daily charting routine.Charting one year. Cervical mucus, BBT, LH. I wake up and sync my Tempdrop. I list any symptoms on the Read Your Body app and track mucus all day at every bathroom trip. I track LH when my fertile window opens, loosely. Very easy and quick part of my life. I enjoy it. No negative affects except when I get a random delayed ovulation, then I dig deeper to do the work to fix it and figure out why. No negatives for me. We are loosely TTA so no effect on sex because we use withdrawal all month until p+3.
- What made you choose this method?I like TCOYF for me because it’s self learned for temping and easy to look up rules if need be. I’m confident with where we are intention wise. Cervical mucus was tougher. I like FEMM because it’s only a few categories but it can get confusing especially coming from TCOYF mucus categories. I also dabbled in Billings and took a few mucus courses. This took longer to get the hang of my personal patterns post hbc. I didn’t want anything overly religious. I also didn’t love how expensive some of the other method instruction was at the time. Since I’m loosely TTA, this has been great for me.
- Has charting helped you to understand your overall health?Yes, especially as I’ve been on a journey with my health and working separately with a midwife and functional medicine doctor. I've learned so much body literacy. It has helped me see flares with my autoimmune disease on my charts.
