Your cycle matters. Period.
Your body is always giving you updates on your health and fertility.
Learn how to listen with fertility awareness.
What is it?
Fertility awareness is the practice of tracking a woman’s physical signs, or biomarkers, that correspond to the events and hormonal changes in her ovulatory cycle. Using this information, she is able to determine her times of fertility and infertility as well as the state of her overall health.
Why fertility awareness?
Fertility awareness empowers you to know your body and to work with your body. It gives you the tools to know how to:
Avoid pregnancy
Achieve pregnancy
Understand your body’s signs of health
Advocate for your health with healthcare providers
Who is it for?
The short answer is, everyone. Every woman can benefit from learning the signs of her cycle. Ovulation, menstruation, follicular phases, luteal phases, cervical fluid, dry days… These are all part of what health looks like for women.
Single Women
Many single women chart to monitor their health. A woman’s cycle has rightly been called her fifth vital sign. Charting your cycle helps you to understand your own body’s health, and can help trained physicians diagnose (and work to heal) various disorders and diseases - often before other symptoms are apparent.
Couples
A fertility awareness method like FEMM offers couples a chance to use their knowledge of the woman’s cycle to help achieve their family planning goals. Unlike contraception, fertility awareness not only gives you the information to avoid pregnancy without any risk to the woman’s health, it also provides you with the knowledge to maximize your chances of becoming pregnant if you are trying to conceive.
"Emily is a phenomenal teacher of FEMM! I took classes with her as a single gal and we quickly became friends. I've taken fertility method classes before, but always felt rushed and not heard when it came to deciphering the details of charting. Emily never hesitated to extend classes to answer all my science questions and truly listened to my concerns during the class and over email.
I really liked FEMM method because she taught me how to read my biological signs as well as including a more objective result with the LH strips. WIN-WIN!!!"
— Caitlin