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Fertility Awareness is an overall term to those who pay attention to their cycles and fertility.
- A Self-care practice that includes charting your menstrual cycle and signs of fertility.
- The fifth vital sign for health.
- A life-style choice.
- Teaches and leads us to body/eco literacy.
- Is applicable to all those who have a womb.
Body literacy is a skill of tuning into ourselves to read and understand the language of our bodies. -Adapted from Megan Lalonde
FAM: Fertility Awareness Method: The charting practice
FABM: Fertility Awareness Based Methods: overarching term
NFP: Natural Family Planning: Christian based methodologies
STM: Sympto-Thermal: using CF and BBT as bio-markers
TTC: trying to conceive
TTA: trying to avoid
IVF: Invitro fertilization
ART: Assisted reproductive technology
OPK: Ovulation prediction kit
BFP: Big fat positive-pregnancy test
PCOS: Polycystic ovarian syndrome or metabolic reproductive syndrome
Endo: Endometriosis
F: Super fertile fluid
f: Fertile fluid
Paper charts:
Full Chart: Full-F-chart-2024-1-1
Simple Chart Low Temps: Simple (F) Chart low temps 2024
Simple Chart: Simple-F-Chart-1-1
Full Chart Note option:
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Read your body app: 3 month free trial just email me with the type of phone you have; Android or Apple and I will send you a link.
Teen Chart-Simple Simple (F) Chart Teen 2024
Teen Chart- Full Full (F) chart Teen
Teen Chart-CF & Emotions Teen Chart- CF and emotions
Books
- Reaching for the MOON by Lucy H. Pearce
- The Girl Guide by Marawa Ibrahim
- The Period Book A Girl’s Guide to Growing Up by Karen Gravelle
- Your Moontime Magic A Girl’s Guide to Getting Your Period and Loving Your Body by Maureen Theresa Smith
- Cycle Savvy The Smart Teen’s Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body by Toni Weschler, MPH
For MOM’s:
- Under Pressure and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers by Lisa Damour, Ph. D.
- Sex Positive Talks to have with Kids A guide to raising sexually healthy, informed, empowered young people by Pintor Carnagey, LBSW
Books:
It Starts with the Egg by Rebecca Fett
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began by Leah Hazard
Real Food For Fertility and Real Food for Pregnancy by Lily Nicols
Honoring Our Cycles: A Natural Family Planning
by Katie Singer
The Fifth Vital Sign by Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
Awakening Fertility: The Essential Art of
Preparing for Pregnancy by Heng Ou, Amely
Greeven and Marisa Belger
Articles
Podcasts
Websites
Books
Home Birth On Your Own Terms by Heather Baker
The Natural Pregnancy Book by Aviva Jill Romm
Indie Birth A Story Of Radical Birth Love by Maryn Green & Margo Blackstone
Our Births, Our Stories by Heather Baker
Documentaries
The Business of Being Born
These Are My Hours
Podcasts
The Birth Lounge Podcast with Haley Stewart
Down to Birth with Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig
The Birth Hour
Evidence Based Birth
The Pain Free Birth Podcast
Websites
Meal Prep Ideas for Postpartum
People to follow
gentlebirthofficial
downtobirthshow
indigoforest.co
tranquilitybyhehe
theserenitydoula
painfreebirth
Books:
- Healthy Parents, Better Babies by Francesca
Naish - Our Bodies, Ourselves Pregnancy and Birth by
The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective - The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and
Child Care– by Sally Fallon Morell and Thomas S.
Cowan - The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of
Nourishing the New Mother by Marisa Belger,
Amely Greenven and Heng Ou - The Seven Standards for Ecological Breastfeeding by Sheila Kippley
Websites
- www.sacredbirthjourney.com
- https://atlasofmotherhood.com
- https://www.innatetraditions.com/
Books
The Menopause Brain by Lisa Mosconi, PhD
The New Menopause by Marie Claire Haver, MD
Peri-Menopause Power. by Maisie Hill
Menopause, the Wise Woman Way – Susan Weed
Podcasts
https://www.maisiehill.com/podcast/perimenopause
Mel Robbins and Marie Claire Haver MD
People to follow
wise_and_well_
drmaryclaire
dr.avivaromm
saragottfriedmd
Articles worth reading:
Four Types of PCOS Lara Briden
PCOS the Natural Prescription Aviva Romm
A Woman’s Guide To PCOS Alissa Vitti
Natural Treatment for PCOS Jenny Blondel
Podcasts:
Nicole Jardim- How to get a diagnosis.
Aviva Romm- The PCOS Gut connection.
People to follow on IG:
the.hormone.dietitian
thewomansdietitian
pcos.nutritionist.dafna
pcos.weightloss
Jessicaashwellness
Books
The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution by Aviva Romm, MD
Articles
Lara Briden, What your period is trying to tell you about your thyroid.
Podcasts
Plant Based Cleaning- Free Recipes
DIY cleaning and personal care products-Free Recipes
Use my Young Living referral link here.
People to follow on IG
- the.hormone.dietitian
- thewomansdietitian
- mad_about_food
- leslie_stokes_
- dietitiainrose
Books
- Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
- Nutrition and Physical Regeneration – Weston A. Price
- Fertility, Cycles and Nutrition by Marilyn Shannon
- Full Moon Feast by Jessica Prentice
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollen
Articles
Organic Consumers Association – food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children’s health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability
Weston A. Price Foundation – organization dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research, and activism.
Sarah Bly https://graceofthemoon.com/
Alissa Vitti: https://www.floliving.com/
Aviva Romm: https://avivaromm.com/blog/
DeAnna Lam: http://www.redschool.net/
Fertility Friday (Lisa Hendrickson-Jack): http://fertilityfriday.com/
Nicole Jardim: https://nicolejardim.com/
Holy Hormones: http://holyhormones.com/
Lara Briden: http://www.larabriden.com/
Sara Gottfried: http://www.saragottfriedmd.com/
Jane Bennett: http://janebennett.com.au/
- The Garden Of Fertility & Honoring Our Cycles – Katie Singer
- Taking Charge of Your Fertility – Toni Weschler, MPH
- Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life and Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagowski
- Her Blood Is Gold – Lara Owen
- She Comes First by Ian Kerner
- The New Our Bodies Ourselves – Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
- A New View of a Woman’s Body – The Federation of Women’s Health Collective
- BEYOND THE PILL by Jolene Brighten
- Period Repair Manual by Lara Briden, ND
- Fix Your Period by Nicole Jardim
- Sex Talks by Vanessa Marin, LMFT
- The Book of Lymph by Lisa Levitt Gainsley, CLT
- Herbal Healing for Women – Rosemary Gladstar
