Why Health Care Practitioners May Not Recommend Natural Birth Control

Many sexual and reproductive health care providers (doctors, nurses, birth control clinic workers) are untrained in understanding the exact workings of fertility awareness methods and how to use them for birth control or to monitor reproductive health.

Unfortunately, much outdated information still circulates about the legitimately out-dated Calendar Rhythm Method of birth control and early understandings of the BBT method of birth control. These both have low effectiveness rates and poor applicability to a broad number of women. The poor record of those methods understandably makes any woman wanting to avoid pregnancy very nervous about practicing natural birth control.

Women can be assured that modern methods of fertility awareness taught to women by trained fertility awareness educators have very high effectiveness rate, and many advantages to using them. The advantages of the Justisse Method are outlined in Chapter 1, and are similar to many other fertility awareness methods.

Always women feel better about themselves, their bodies, and their health when they use fertility awareness - whether they are avoiding pregnancy or trying to achieve pregnancy - because being body literate is to have greater body autonomy and personal power in making sexual and reproductive health choices.