With so many natural family planning methods to choose from, it can be hard to know which system is right for you. Here are just a few benefits of the Creighton Model System to help guide you!
1. A System for All Seasons
Learning the Creighton Model System becomes an investment for life because it can be used in every procreative season. From puberty to breastfeeding to perimenopause, Creighton has a protocol for each unique phase women experience. This helps you confidently navigate your changing body, fertility, and hormones.
2. Great for Couples
The Creighton Model System encourages couples to chart together. The program includes teaching on how to become more unified not just sexually, but as whole people, through the SPICE protocol. Couples have fun working through ways to connect Spiritually-Physically-Intellectually-Creatively-Emotionally. Learning Creighton isn’t only about charting, but can be a great tool for you marriage/relationship as well. Single women using Creighton for health purposes also benefit from the SPICE protocol by focusing on authentic self care.
3. Cost Effective
Compared to contraceptives, other infertility treatments or medical tests, Creighton is a natural and affordable way to identify root causes for fertility related issues.
4. No Tech Needed
The Creighton Model System offers a unique opportunity in our modern world: no tech needed. A simple paper chart is really all you need. You don’t have to rely on expensive fertility monitors or tests to guide you, because with Creighton, your own body is the guide. You can learn to pay attention to all the signs it communicates. There is something refreshing and empowering about using a physical chart to document what you observe your body telling you with your own eyes!
5. NaPro Technology
NaPro Technology is a new women’s health system that was developed from the Creighton Model Chart. Short for Natural Procreative technology, NaPro is a system that respects the fertility of the woman’s body, and only provides care in life affirming ways. This system works with conditions like endometriosis, infertility, PCOS, hormone imbalance, and many more. Using Creighton gives you access to personal referrals to NaPro trained providers. You can read more about NaPro and how its impacted my own life here!
6. 1:1 Follow Up
You won’t find a self paced online course or YouTube video teaching you how to chart with this method because learning Creighton requires meeting with a FertilityCare Practitioner. Because it is meant to be a personal system, you work 1:1 with a trained teacher to help guide you through all the ups and down of navigating your cycles. Every woman is different and every cycle is different too, so having personal support to help you understand your fertility day to day is a main benefit of the Creighton Model.
7. Reliability
One major question clients have about learning a natural system is: Does it work? The Creighton Model has a method effectiveness of 99.5% when used to avoid pregnancy, and a use effectiveness of 96.8% (this allows room for user error, which can happen with any natural system because we’re real human beings!)
Couples using the system to achieve a pregnancy without known infertility issues, have a 76% chance of becoming pregnant in the first cycle of trying, then 90% by the 3rd cycle, and 98% by the 6th cycle.
So yes, it works!
8. Credible Teachers
To become a FertilityCare Practitioner, students go through a 13 month program. In addition to working with clients under supervision, FCPs complete a two phase practicum and onsite intenstives. Your teacher becomes a well trained allied health professional through the program, so you can feel comfortable relying on them to teach you well!
9. Faith Based
The Creighton Model System was developed in response to St Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humane Vitae, in which the pope wrote prophetically about the decline of marriage and family life with the advent of birth control. The Creighton Model is fundamentally pro life, so it respects the dignity of marriage and the woman’s body. While the CrMS was founded on Christian values, anyone is welcome to use the system!
10. Completely Natural
The CrMS works naturally with the woman’s cycle, so users can have peace of mind knowing there are no negative side effects. NaPro Technology treatments respect the natural rhythms of a woman’s body and fertility without causing undue stress. Personalized protocols within the teaching program include supportive nutrition and supplement support. The whole charting system is based on observing the naturally occurring signs in the woman’s body.
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