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NFP For the 21st Century
In case you haven’t yet noticed, I recently teamed up with my friend and fellow fertility awareness advocate, Emily (over at totalwhine.com), to create a new non profit corporation and fertility awareness database called FAbM Base (pronounced FAM-base), a place where science and real life intersect – essentially giving NFP a long overdue makeover. We’ve Read more
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Book Recommendations for Parents with Adopted Littles
This post contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Read my Affiliate Disclosure for more information. He is mine in a way that he will never be hers, yet he is hers in a way that he will never be Read more
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What the IVF?
Artificial Reproductive Technologies (ART) encompass a sensitive subject area, but are (strangely) one of my favorite things to talk about. It’s a multifaceted topic with many aspects that are often left unconsidered by the average infertile couple – and especially by the average person recommending it. As someone who feels incredibly fulfilled despite living infertility Read more
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Taking Family Planning to the Bank, Part 2: Counterfeit NFP
Expectations When I was a kid, I wanted a kitten very badly. I would often see those four-legged cuties on TV or at a friend’s house and long for a little guy or gal of my own to love and smother with unwanted attention. My parents were not really any kind of animal people, much Read more
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Taking Family Planning to the Bank, Part 1: Perceived Control
Family and planning are two pretty innocent words on their own, but when you put them together, sparks tend to fly – and not necessarily the good kind. People tend to be pretty opinionated about this topic that affects all of our lives in one way or another at some point. Neither young adults nor Read more
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Uncharted Territory
For NFP week 2020, I teamed up with two extraordinary women to deliver a 6-part series articulating fertility awareness/NFP as it compares to birth control, providentialism, and artificial reproductive technologies in light of Church teaching and our personal experiences. This gave us a unique approach, considering that we come from three very different backgrounds – Read more
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