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Do you all miss Jess's NFPworks fertility news round-up?  Well it's back with a new fancy graphic and everything!

Visit our friends at IuseNFP for their latest Fertility News Round-up! Check out their site for the most recent highlights in natural fertility news!

A sneak peek:

Birth Control and Migraines Don’t Mix: A new study published indicates a link between women who have migraines taking combined oral contraception pills and blood clots.

Waking Up From The Pill: A long (but worth it) article about the unforeseen complications on the price of “sexual freedom.”

Blog Series on NFP: Carrots For Michaelmas is hosting a series of guest post by women sharing their experience using NFP.

And Many More!!! Check it out!

Welcome NFPworks readers! If you are looking for the NFPworks blog and are finding yourself here it is because you have been redirected to this archive. In late September 2012 the NFPworks blog was officially transfered and archived to our site. Our friend Jess discerned a much needed change in focus and decided her time blogging at NFPworks had come to an end. In the posts below you can read, in her own words, how she came to that decision and what she has in store for the future. All of the NFPworks posts both past and future will be logged under the NFPWorks Category that can be easily accessed by selecting it from the sidebar farther down on the right side of the page.

I have good news and I have bad news

People usually want to hear the bad news first. The bad news: after five years of blogging at NFPworks, I have decided I very much need to step away from the NFP apostolate and blogosphere. While my NFP work may not stop completely, I have decided that the original flair and creativity for promoting NFP and fertility online and on a freelance/ diocesan base has grown not a little tired and uninspired. The good news: I will be focusing on personal and family apostolate (and whatever else comes my way) by working to become a better writer and designer. After working on that for a while, who knows?

While this is belated, the quickest way to improve your SEO is to flatter me. No, I do not think I'm the leading NFP evangelist by any means. I do like the word maven, though. Mostly because it's a Yiddish word.

As I said on Twitter, it's been so long since I actually started collating stories for this post that it's less of a "Fertility News Roundup" and more of a "Fertility HistoryRoundup". Nevertheless, enjoy!

It appears this is true. According to her Facebook public page, Abby Johnson is enrolled in a Creighton FertilityCare practitioner course! Join me in congratulating and praying for her learning process, and continuing  your prayers for all NFP teachers/ practitioners out there. (And pray for more!) Read more about Practitioner Education Programs for the Pope Paul VI Institute here.

About Creighton FertilityCare

The Creighton Model of Natural Family Planning (in Creighton terms, FertilityCare) was first researched and initiated as a method of family planning (to achieve and postpone pregnancy) in 1976, and fully described in 1980. It has since grown nationally and internationally, and many, certified practitioners (Creightonspeak for teachers) are certified medical consultants and NaProTechnology (medical application of the Creighton model) trained surgeons.

Check out this fantastic commercial/ video from St. Louis with Doctors inviting you to know about your body through NFP.

Happy Grandparents' Day, Jesus! Yup, it's the feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, an oft-overlooked but incredibly lovely feast day. It is well-known to people who struggle with infertility because tradition tells us Anne and Joachim were advanced in age when blessed with Mary, but it is a high point of NFP Awareness Week as well--a feast day for all. As John Paul II wrote, "The destiny of humanity passes through the family." This is quite literally true in the case of Anne and Joachim, and is true on several levels for all of us as well. See my post about the feast of the Maternity of Anna, and learn more about this incredible painting of St. Joachim and Anne. By the way, if you're sub fertile or infertile, and if you don't already know, please check out FertilityCare & NaProTechnology.

Happy NFP Awareness Week!

[The following appears in this week's Georgia Bulletin, and is reposted here with permission.] 

by SUZANE HAUGH, Special To The Bulletin Published: July 19, 2012 ATLANTA—According to the Guttmacher Institute, statistics released earlier this year suggest that close to 90 percent of women of reproductive age—and 87 percent of Catholic women—use a method of contraception other than Natural Family Planning. While the percentages may differ in other studies, it is clear that contraceptive use is prevalent even among Catholics, making it harder to imagine how to “think outside the pill,” a phrase coined by Jessica M.H. Smith, an NFP blogger who has worked with the Edith Stein Foundation. As a former contracepting college student and now a “revert” to the Catholic faith, she is passionate in her mission to enlarge hearts and minds to see the truth of the church’s teachings in the area of human sexuality. “NFP for the Catholic person is part of the wider spiritual road to heaven [as opposed to contraception], but we don’t always have to start there because not everyone is there,” she said. People come to NFP by many routes—if not for spiritual reasons, then maybe because it is ecological and relationship-building. For National NFP Awareness Week, her insights have been compiled in the following list of incentives for considering NFP.