NATURAL BIRTH CONTROL
Birth control you understand, because you're the one reading the signs
Learn natural birth control properly, one-to-one, over twelve weeks. You leave knowing how to read your own body well enough to rely on it. No hormones, no guessing, no app deciding for you.
99.4% to 99.6%
Effective when the rules are followed
3 live sessions
One-to-one, chart reviews included
6 months
Private support from sign-up
WHEREVER YOU'RE STARTING FROM
Two kinds of women land on this page. Both are in the right place.
If you've never heard of this before
There is a method of birth control that uses no hormones, no device and no side effects. It works by teaching you to read the physical signs your body produces when you're fertile, so you know which days you can get pregnant and which days you can't. It's called fertility awareness, and the version I teach has been studied more thoroughly than most people realise. Keep reading, I'll explain the whole thing.
If you already know what fertility awareness is
And you've been charting on your own from a book or an app without ever quite trusting your own charts: skip to "Could I just teach myself?" below. That section is for you.
DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?
You're probably somewhere in this list
You're on hormonal birth control and you want off.
A free call. We talk about where you are, what you're using now and whether FAM is the right fit for you. If it isn't, I'll say so.
Your doctor told you to stop
Or you've been ruled out of hormonal options, and nobody offered you anything except a coil or a shrug.
You've been tracking for a few months already
And your chart looks nothing like the tidy examples. Your temperatures wander. Your fluid doesn't do what the diagram says. You can't tell whether that's your body or your technique.
You already came off, and you feel like yourself again.
You're not going back. But you're also quietly anxious around the middle of every cycle, doing mental arithmetic you're not confident about.
You're using condoms, timing and hope
And calling it a system when honestly it's luck with better presentation.
Your cycles are irregular, or post-pill, or you have PCOS
And every article says fertility awareness isn't for you, which lands like being told your body is the wrong shape.
Not one of those means you can't do this. Most of them mean doing it alone has stopped making sense.
WHAT YOU'LL ACTUALLY LEARN
Your body tells you when you're fertile. This is how to listen.
The fertility awareness method (FAM) works on one fact: you can only conceive during a limited window each cycle, and your body gives clear, observable signs of when that window opens and closes.
An app estimates that window from averages. It works from what your last few cycles did and assumes this one will do the same. Fertility awareness reads the window from you, in real time, this cycle. That is the difference between a prediction and a method.
You'll learn the symptothermal method, which combines two primary signs with a set of rules for turning them into a daily answer. It's the most thoroughly researched form of fertility awareness there is, and when it's taught properly and followed consistently, it's one of the most effective forms of contraception available.
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Basal Body Temperature
A small, measurable shift after ovulation. You learn to take it, chart it and read it.
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Cervical Fluid
Changes through the cycle in a pattern you can recognise once you know what to look for.
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Cervical Position
An optional third sign that confirms what the other two are telling you.
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LH Testing
An optional fourth sign. Useful as a cross-check when your fluid observations are hard to read.
The rules
The signs on their own are just data. I teach you how to combine the signs into a clear answer, every day: fertile or not fertile.
How effective is it, honestly?
The largest study of this method followed 900 women across more than 17,000 cycles.
0.4
in 100
Followed the rules and avoided intercourse during the fertile window. Pregnancies across a year.
0.6
in 100
Followed the rules and used a barrier method during the fertile window instead.
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1.8
in 100
Everyone in the study, including women who knowingly took chances on fertile days.
So: 99.4 to 99.6% effective when the rules are followed. Around 98% across real people living real lives.
I give you both numbers on purpose. The first tells you what this method is capable of. The second tells you it's only ever as good as what you do with it on a Tuesday night in your fertile window.
Everything about how I teach is built to close that gap. Twelve weeks rather than a weekend. One-to-one rather than a video course. Your own charts read by me, plus six months of being able to ask questions.
Frank-Herrmann et al., Human Reproduction, 2007
COULD I JUST TEACH MYSELF?
Some people can. Here's where it usually stops working.
There's a well-known book on this, Taking Charge of Your Fertility, and it's genuinely good. If you're going to self-teach, teach yourself from that rather than from Instagram. Some women read it, chart carefully and get on fine.
What a book can't do is look at your chart.
It shows you a textbook cycle, and then you have a cycle that isn't textbook, which is most of them. It can't tell you whether that ambiguous fluid on day 11 is the start of your fertile window or nothing. It can't tell you whether the temperature rise on day 19 is a real shift or one bad night's sleep.
The difference between understanding the method and trusting it enough to rely on it. Those are separate skills.
And there's one gap a book structurally cannot close. The first skill you can get in a weekend. The second comes from someone reading your real charts, more than once, and telling you what they see.
If you've been charting a while and you still hedge on your fertile days, that's what you'd be paying for. Not information. Confidence you can act on.
IN THEIR WORDS
What women say afterwards
"Working with Mary opened my eyes to my body in a way I never had before. It's been so empowering to finally feel connected to myself."
Véra S.
"I'm so much more in tune with my body now. I notice the small signals it gives me every day, the ones I used to not see and even ignore."
Ilse S.
"I understand my body and my cycle so much better, and I genuinely look forward to every call to learn more."​
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Jenny K.
HOW THE 12 WEEKS WORK
Three sessions. Two to three full cycles of charting. One skill for life.
BEFORE WE START
30-minute introduction
Where you are, what you're using now, what your cycles are doing. If this isn't right for you, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.
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WEEK 5-6
Your first chart
We go through your first cycle together, line by line. What's clear, what isn't, where your temperature shift is and how to find it in a chart that isn't tidy. By the end of this session you can identify a confirmed ovulation in your own data, which is the milestone that opens up the post-ovulatory rules.
WEEK 1
The foundations
How your cycle actually works, what each sign means, and exactly how to observe and record it. You leave with your chart set up and start tracking the same day. This first cycle is for building the skill and getting your baseline, so you'll use a barrier method or abstain throughout it.
WEEK 10-12
The rules, applied
Second chart review, then the complete rule set including the edge cases. This is where you stop learning a method and start running one.
Between sessions, and for three months after
You're not on your own between calls. Send me a chart, a question, a "wait, is this normal?" and I'll answer. Private support runs for six months from the day you sign up, so it covers the programme and the three months after it.
HOW THE 12 WEEKS WORK
Everything you need to chart with confidence
30min
Introduction consultation
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A free 30-minute call before you commit
3x 120min
Three live 1-on-1 sessions
All education, chart reviews and guidance, with me, not a video course
Download
FAM charts & reference material
Printable and downloadable. Yours to keep and reprint
12 weeks
12-week FAM programme
Structured to cover two full cycles of charting
6 months
Private support for six months
From the day you sign up. Questions, charts, reassurance
3 months
3 months free charting
In Read Your Body. The app I chart in, and the one I'll review your charts from
INVESTMENT
One programme, three ways to pay
You learn this once. You'll use it coming off hormones, through deciding whether you want children, through trying for them if you do, and in the years after. It isn't a subscription and it doesn't expire.
Pay in full
395€ÂEverything included. Paid once at sign-up.Â2 monthly payments
205€Every monthFirst payment at sign-up, second one month later.Valid for 2 months3 monthly payments
139€Every monthSpread over the length of the programme.Valid for 3 months
WHO THIS IS FOR
This is for you if ...
You want to stop hormonal birth control, or already have, and need something you trust
You want contraception that has no side effects on your body
You've tried learning this alone and can't get confident enough to rely on it
Your cycles are irregular, post-pill or otherwise not textbook, and you've been told that rules you out
You're willing to observe and chart daily, and would rather learn it properly than half-learn it online
You can use a barrier method or abstain on fertile days
You want to understand your fertility whether or not you ever want children
It may not be for you if...
You want something you can set and forget
You can't follow the rules strictly on fertile days, every cycle
You're looking for medical diagnosis or treatment
FAM is a method, and it only works as well as it's taught and followed. That's why this is one-to-one, over twelve weeks, and not a PDF.
WHY LEARN WITH ME?
I was on hormonal birth control for over a decade.
Then I learned this.
I knew almost nothing about my own cycle for most of my adult life. Coming off hormonal contraception was the first time I actually learned how my body worked, and the first time I felt I could trust it.
I'm a trained fertility awareness educator with a background in psychology. I teach this the way I wish someone had taught me: thoroughly, without judgement, and with someone to ask when you don't understand your chart.
Good things to know
FINAL STEP
You don't have to decide today
Book the free 30 minute call. We'll talk about where you are, what you're using now, and what's making you hesitate. You get a sense of how I work. I get a sense of whether I can genuinely help.
If we're a good fit, we go from there. If not, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.
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You book a 30-minute call at a time that suits you.
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We talk through what's going on and what you want to understand.
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I tell you honestly whether and how I can help