Natural Family Planning (NFP)

Finding a Natural Family Planning (NFP) Class

Currently, there are distance learning methods approved by the USCCB that can be found here: NFP Distance Learning. Please note, if you choose to use one of these methods, you would register and pay directly with the organization you choose.

Articles, Links, and Resources for NFP

Do you want to learn about Natural Family Planning? Are you currently practicing NFP and have questions or need information? Watch these helpful videos!

Why We Love NFP	Why we don’t use contraception in our marriage
Why you should get off the pill	Desiring to grow in holiness

Additional Resources

Isn’t NFP Just Catholic Contraception?	Isn’t NFP Just Catholic “Birth Control?”	NFP is a Low-Profile But Best-For-You Method	NFP and Contraception (the difference)
The Nitty-Gritty of NFP	The Top Ten Reasons To Use NFP	Green Sex: What is it?	How Knowing Your Fertility Can Catch Diseases
Jason Evert – Natural Family Planning	Why NFP?	What Is NFP?

What Are Men Saying About NFP?

12 Reasons Men Should Use Natural Birth Control	What Practicing NFP is Like: One Man Shares His Thoughts	A Nod To the Five Love Languages	A Letter From a Father to His Daughter
Be Her Joseph	NFL QB Philip Rivers Talks About NFP

Relationships & NFP?

No Better Aphrodisiac: Why NFP?	Is Natural Family Planning Unnatural For Relationships?	NFP Uncensored: Self-discipline

NFP for Single Women and Teens

Teaching Your Teen to Chart Her Cycle Could Literally Save Her Life	Cycle mindfulness: What Happens When You Teach Fertility Awareness to Teen Girls	Does Breastfeeding Prevent You From Getting Pregnant?
Women Speak on NFP: Navigating NFP Post Partum	I’m Single and I Love NFP. Here’s Why…	Uncensored: Single and Charting
Five Reasons Teen Girls Should Learn to Chart

Struggles Using NFP

The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Burden of Natural Family Planning – Part 1	Not For The Perfect: How I Came To Accept, And Value, NFP
The Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Burden of Natural Family Planning – Part 2

Efficacy & NFP


How We Rewrote Planned Parenthood’s page on Fertility Awareness by Gerard Migeon	When Condoms Actually Increase the Likelihood of Pregnancy: Wait, what?!
New Cycle Tracking App Study Risks Misleading Many

NFP Witness

Simcha Fisher Speaks on Her Experience With Natural Family Planning for N.F.P. Awareness Week	What NFP Looks Like for Our Family Right Now	NFP Couples Share Their Stories
The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning	Teaching Couple Says Natural Family Planning Offers Theological, Environmental and Relational Benefits

Unplanned Pregnancy and NFP

Mistaken Conception (Or The Time I Thought NFP Let Me Down)

Infertility, IVF, NFP

You Me and NFP – Infertility & NaPro	Hope for Married Couples Who Want to Have a Child	When You Should See a Doctor for Infertility
Unexplained Infertility is Not Always Unexplainable	How Fertility Awareness Reduces Risk of Miscarriage	The Hidden Costs of IVF: Heartbreak, Health Risks, and Helplessness
Dr. Anne Nolte – Infertility and NaPro Technology

Perimenopause and NFP

Surviving Perimenopause: A Guide for Couples

Premenopause Online Classes Information

The Natural Survival Kit to Perimenopause

Postpartum & Breastfeeding with NFP

How to Manage Breastfeeding and Natural Family Planning	Women Speak on NFP: Navigating NFP Post Partum	Does Breastfeeding Prevent You From Getting Pregnant?
How Do I Speak to PostPartum NFP When … I Got Pregnant?	Postpartum is Unpredictable – Even for NFP Teachers	This Couple Went A Year Without Sex (and lived to tell the tale)

Contraception Issues and NFP

Can the Copper IUD Harm Your Health and Fertility?	Hormonal Contraceptives Increase Breast Cancer Risk: A Doctor’s Report on Why	Effects of the Pill (Including Cervical Aging)
Oral Contraceptives Cause Low Vitamin B6 and Zinc, Reduce Serotonin Levels and Increase Anxiety	The Crucial Difference Between Progesterone and Progestins	Those Catholic Women Who Use Contraception
What an Irregular Period Means, and How the Pill Doesn’t Help	9 Reasons Catholics Oppose Contraception

The Pill

Getting Off the Pill: 4 Key Ways to Achieve a Healthy Transition	Coming Off the Pill into Fertility Awareness: Prepare for These Symptoms	Coming Off The Pill With Good Nutrition
Can I Chart When I’m On The Pill?	What Is the Problem With Contraception	How the Pill Switches Off Hormones and Why That Matters
Women Want to Know: Does The Pill Cause Abortion?

Humanae Vitae

Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI, 1968	Humanae Vitae: 50 Years Later by Ellen Gable Hrkach	How “Humanae Vitae” Helped One Nun Find Her Feminist Voice
The Cost of Contraception and the Joy of the Gospel of Life	‘Humanae Vitae’ Saves Marriages, Says Minneapolis bishop	Keep Love Loving and Open to God
Bishop Robert Barron – The Prophesies of Pope Paul VI	50 Years Ago A Pope Predicted That Because Of Birth Control These Things Would Happen

Contact

Brian Caldwell

Director
973-497-4324

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Jennifer Ferraioli

Associate Director
Marriage Preparation
973-497-4328

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John Kalinowski

Ministry of Loss & Healing Coordinator
973-497-4327

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Yamilka Genao

Associate Director
Hispanic Life Ministries / Pastoral Familiar Hispana
Marriage Preparation / Enrichment
Natural Family Planning (NFP)
Ministry of Loss & Healing
973-497-4326

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