NFP: Sweetness and Light by Sara Fox Peterson
So NFP is great, right? We promoters and teachers of NFP use a lot of breath and ink letting everyone who comes …

Sara Fox Peterson is a wife, homeschooling mama and occasional writer. She holds a BS in biology and an MS in physiology and is a certified teacher of the Billings Ovulation Method of Natural Family Planning. Sara and her family live in Maryland and are in the process of adopting a child with special needs from an Eastern European orphanage. She blogs at http://www.foxberryfarmalmanac.blogspot.com
So NFP is great, right? We promoters and teachers of NFP use a lot of breath and ink letting everyone who comes …
In the very first column I wrote for CatholicMom.com (Natural Family Planning – Why Not?) I mentioned that the issue of freedom …
Learning the truth about the sex, marriage and family planning can be one of the most difficult and painful aspects of converting …
Imagine two hypothetical couples, each with the same number of children, the same financial and material resources, the same psychological stresses and …
People who speak publicly about the Church’s teachings on sex and marriage will tell you that one of the question they hear …
The slide presentation I use as an introduction to NFP when I am teaching a group of couples includes a wonderful slide …
Within weeks of giving birth to my second child the questions started: “Will you have another?” “When?” “How many are you planning …
There seems to be concern among some faithful Catholics that NFP is often treated as a kind of Catholic contraception – that …
I recently asked my husband why using NFP to avoid pregnancy sometimes feels so much less certain than using a contraceptive. At …
1. NFP is difficult to self-teach. Most modern methods of NFP rely, to a greater or lesser extent, on an understanding of …
It is a widely discussed fact that approximately 90% of married Catholics today do not follow the Church’s teachings on family planning. …