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Wow, life moves rapidly! Katie and I went to our first Natural Family Planning (NFP) class, which my diocese requires for marriage preparation.
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I have learned that there are (at least?) two different NFP systems: Couple to Couple League, which uses the sympto-thermal method (mucus plus temperature) and the Creighton Model, which uses just the mucus. This class teaches the Creighton Model.
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What a great Biology lesson the instructor (who happens to be a friend of ours) gave! I felt like I learned more about male and female sexual anatomy and workings in that one hour than in all my schooling. Maybe it’s just a lot more relevant to my life now…. 
It was really cool because women’s bodies are amazingly made and are fertile for only a brief time each month, so by tracking these physical manifestations attentively, a couple can figure out with high accuracy whether they are fertile or not.
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Both Katie and I are excited about “charting” together, wherein she tells me her physical manifestations and I put stickers on the chart. Many of our friends have told us definitively: “NFP works” for both getting pregnant and spacing pregnancies, and best of all, it doesn’t seek to block a married couples’ procreative acts from the possible gift of life from God as well as not pumping hormones into our blessed wives’ bodies unnaturally.
