Fertility Education & Training
Welcome to the Fertility Education Web Site which teaches you about fertility, infertility and Natural Family Planning.
Fertility is a precious gift which enables couples to have children and enjoy the blessings of family life. However, not all couples are equally blessed with this gift.
- Most are very fertile and conceive easily,
- Some conceive with difficulty,
- while others wonder if they will ever conceive at all.
This web site can help couples in all these situations. It explains how fertility works and, in particular, the pattern of a woman’s cycle. Armed with this knowledge, couples can plan, space and limit family size by education rather than by using invasive procedures.
NFP Teacher Training Courses
Would you like to be able to help couples who are desperately trying to have a baby as well as those who want to space and limit family size? Courses to train people to teach the art of Natural Family Planning are held regularly around the UK. They are very interesting courses and always highly evaluated by participants. If you wish to train, please contact Mrs Colleen Norman for course details through our Contact Page and you will be put in touch with the trainer in your area.
Next Teacher Training course to start in Cardiff: September 10th, 2011
What Couples Can Learn
- how their bodies work
- how to maximise their chances of conception
- how to avoid pregnancy, using a method of family planning with no health risks or side-effects
- how to use the method throughout their reproductive life, including breastfeeding and pre-menopause
Quicklinks
If this is your first visit to our site we strongly recommend that you start by reading the tutorial Understanding Your Fertility.
A few Fertility Facts to think about:
A man is fertile all the time, producing millions of sperm at each act of intercourse
A woman, by contrast, usually produces one egg per monthly cycle which can be
fertilised for about 12 hours
Sperm can live for 3 - 6 days before ovulation, given good conditions
So conception can occur from intercourse up to 6 days before ovulation. Allowing a further 3 days for the release and life span of the egg, the rest of the cycle is infertile.
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