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I would give yourself a few months of active charting to learn your cycle before you try to use it as a method of birth control. Once you learn how to chart and do it regularly it's pretty amazing how much you learn about your body. you can predict when you are fertile and when you are ovulating and to avoid pregnancy you should avoid sex in that window or use some sort of birth control.
I'm torn because i don't know if i fully trust it and myself to make sure that doesn't happen without just not having sex and lets be serious your fertile window can be 6 to 13 days! that sa long time. haha. It can be done but I prefer to use another method of birth control in my fertile window.
There are tons of awesome places out there to track your charting. I know there is an actual NFP app out there but i liked fertility friend better.
I would sign up for FertilityFriend.com and start learning and practicing now before coming off BC. Some people seem to get pregnant right away coming off BC and some it takes a little longer for your body to adjust.
Best of Luck!
I practiced for a while before going off BC. I still dont totally trust myself with it, but practicing helped. Fertility Friend has been pretty great. There is a website for the book, TCOYF, and it has good forums on there that you can talk to others and share charts!
I'm charting for TTA right now, although it helps that I'm not ovulating....I stopped HBC in Aug, after the honeymoon and have been charting since. We use withdrawl mostly, but I think I started oing so now we'll use condoms till we TTC in April.
Thanks for the replies. I think the first thing I'm going to do is talk to my dr. about getting on to a low-dose BCP for a few months to kind of taper myself off of them. I am going to practice temping just to get the hang of it and become familiar with the charts as well. I think I will aim for getting off BCP in the summer because right now I am taking 6 graduate credits in addition to teaching...I know stress can affect one's cycle. I will definitely check out fertility friend and the TCOYF websites as well.
I was on the lowest dose of HBC. I had been on one and it gave me horrible mood swings and I was an outright b*tch. I switched to marvelon, and later to the generic, and I never had any problems with it!
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Hi Bees,
I was wondering if anyone has used charting (FAM or NFP) to avoid pregnancy and for how long? I would love to get off of the Pill and start charting but we're not trying to TTC for a few years. I was just wondering what anyone's thoughts are on charting to TTA. I'm currently reading TCOYF and loving the book. Thanks!