Never before have couples had so many options available in terms of family planning. Certainly, the availability of birth control pills and contraceptive devices has made it easier for couples to choose when they will become pregnant, and plan their family accordingly. At the same time, there are people who disagree with these options. In some cases, it may be for philosophical reasons, such as a religious belief about contraceptives and birth control, or whether it is an issue of logistics, such as when a woman is unable to take birth control pills because of a risk of stroke, for example. Regardless of the reasons, these couples choose to practice natural family planning.

The most important part about natural family planning is keeping tabs on a woman’s cycle. Knowing the days that she could become pregnant and avoiding intercourse on those days can be as much as 95% effective at preventing pregnancy. Unfortunately, however, very few women have a cycle that is exactly 28 days long, every month. Some women will have a consistently shorter cycle, and some women will have a consistently longer one. Other women may not have regular cycles, and their cycles can vary greatly from one month to the next.

There are tools that can help you with natural family planning. For example, there are CycleBeads, which are an easy way for a woman to keep track of where she is in her cycle. CycleBeads are easy to use, and they use a simple color-coded system to identify fertile days and low-fertility days. As a bonus, using CycleBeads can let a woman know when her period is likely to start.

There are other tools available as well that can help you with natural family planning. By using ovulation predictor kits, saliva-based ovulation tests, or even ovulation tracking software a woman can, after a few cycles, get a good picture of when it is that she can expect to ovulate. By tracking ovulation she can then avoid intercourse during ovulation and on the days leading up to it to avoid pregnancy, or do the opposite if the couple is trying to become pregnant.

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