Natural Fertility Consultations

Body Literacy - Conception - Contraception 

Natural Fertility Education is a modality which teaches the individual or couple to understand and interpret the fertile and infertile phases of a women's menstrual cycle for body literacy, conception and contraception. 

This is done through the individual learning to chart her cycle, specifically, the primary signs of fertility: cervical mucus and basal body temperature as well as the secondary signs of fertility.

Charting for body literacy:

Women usually come to Natural Fertility Education for body literacy because they are keen to understand their cycle yet the reasons why they come are varied. It may be that you have a reproductive health challenge, are peri-menopausal and would like to connect with your cycle before menopause, you might like to learn about your cycle to be able to teach your daughter or to connect with your femininity. Here are some outcomes that you can expect when coming to Natural Fertility Education for Body Literacy:

• Understand the workings of your reproductive system

• Learn to identity the fertile and infertile phases of your cycle as well as to pin point ovulation

• Create a positive mindset around bleeding and your Yoni (Sanskrit word for womb) 

• Learn practices & rituals to honour your blood and each phase of your menstrual cycle

• Learn lifestyle medicine to enhance your menstrual cycle health
• Lean how to create sustainable change and integrate the practices rituals and lifestyle medicine into your everyday life

• Feel embodied and 'inside' of your cycle

• Learn ways to invite your partner into this knowledge and feel supported by them

• Show your daughter how to love / honour / respect her menstrual cycle and her yoni

• Show your son how to love / honour / respect women's menstrual cycles

*If you have any questions please reach out to me privately at [email protected]

Charting for Conception

Natural Fertility Education for conception teaches you to recognise the fertile and infertile times of your menstrual cycle by charting cervical mucus and basal body temperature. These two signs can give us a lot of information about hormone fluctuations, stress effecting the cycle, possible underlying causes of infertility as well as the timing of ovulation or the lack of ovulation. By charting several cycles we will be able to get an overview as to why you may be struggling to get pregnant. These charts can also be taken to your gynaecologist or health practitioner in order to help them prescribe supplements and/or medicines if you choose to go down that path.

What sessions can include:

• Review of health intake form
• Education on anatomy
• Education on the menstrual cycle in general
• Education on how to observe and record cervical mucus and basal body temperature
• Education on how to use the diary and thermomter
• Lifestyle medicine recommendations
• Womb Yoga for fertility

There is growing research to suggest that infertility is greatly effected by lifestyle . Consultations will also include recommendations for lifestyle changes to enhance the chance of concieving. 

Womb Yoga for fertility will also be recommended depending on your needs and desires.

What you will need:

• Tracking diary - this can be purchased off me at cost price, around $20-30 and includes 12 months worth of tracking.
• Basal Body Thermometer, also known as an ovulation thermomter. You can buy this from your local chemist for around $10-20. The best brand is surgipack.

*If you have any questions please reach out to me privately at [email protected] 

Charting for contraception

Natural Fertility Education for contraception is a an option with a 98% success rate when practiced correctly. That's up there with condoms. When people think about natural fertility they often think about the outdated rhythm method which used historical information about the cycle to determine the length of the fertile phase. We now know that cycle length is susceptible to change so instead, Natural Fertility Education teaches us to understand the cycle day to day and moment to moment so we can get accurate information about our fertility. Using this method for contraception is wonderful because if / when it comes time to start a family you already have the information about how to understand your cycle and you can apply what you know but this time for conception instead of contraception. 

*If you have any questions please reach out to me privately at [email protected]