The Fertility Awareness Method
The Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) is a natural and effective way to track fertility and hormonal health by observing key body signs, such as basal body temperature and cervical mucus. FAM works with your body’s natural rhythms, empowering you with knowledge about your cycle.
Why learn the Fertility Awareness Method?
✅ Hormone-free & natural: No artificial hormones or side effects
✅ For all life stages: Whether avoiding pregnancy, trying to conceive, or just curious about your cycle
✅ Backed by science: Learn to read your body’s signals with accuracy
✅ More than just fertility: FAM can help you identify hormone imbalances and improve overall well-being
What is the Fertility Awareness Method?
The Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) is a natural approach to cycle charting and birth control that helps you identify exactly when you are fertile in your cycle. The goal is to pinpoint your fertile window as accurately as possible—long enough to ensure safety, but not so long that you unnecessarily restrict yourself.
Each cycle, you are biologically fertile for about six days:
- Up to 5–6 days before ovulation, due to sperm survival in fertile cervical mucus
- The 12–24 hours after ovulation, when the egg is available for fertilization
By learning to track key fertility signs, FAM allows you to identify your fertile window in real-time, not just retrospectively. During this time, to prevent pregnancy, you must avoid penis-in-vagina sex, genital contact, and any exposure to sperm near the vagina. Outside of this window pregnancy is not biologically possible.
The Sympto-Thermal Method
I teach the Sympto-Thermal Method (Double-Check Method), the most effective FAM approach. When practiced correctly, it has reliability rates comparable to condoms or the pill—but without hormones or side effects.
With FAM, you gain knowledge and control over your fertility, allowing you to make informed choices with confidence.
Why learn about your cycle?
3 Reasons to use FAM
Tracking your cycle is a natural, hormone-free method that helps you understand your cycle, whether you want to prevent pregnancy, conceive, or get to know your body.
1. Effective birth control
The Sympto-Thermal Method—the approach I teach—allows you to prevent pregnancy and is just as effective as condoms or the pill when practiced correctly. However, to rely on FAM for birth control, it’s essential to learn it properly—guessing or inaccurate tracking (apps) increases the risk of pregnancy.
2. Getting pregnant
FAM is also a powerful tool for getting pregnant. Many people start tracking their cycles only after struggling to conceive, often realizing they were mistiming intercourse or that there is a hormonal imbalance preventing them from getting pregnant. Charting your cycle helps you accurately identify your most fertile days and spot potential fertility issues sooner.
3. learn to understand your body
Even if preventing or achieving pregnancy isn’t on your mind FAM is still a very powerfull tool to get to know your body better. In fact: this is my favourite reason to start charting! Considering the number of cycles you have in your life, you might as well get to know what’s happening!
Who can use FAM?
FAM is a method that can be used by every person that has a menstrual cycle who does not use any hormonal contraceptives.*
You can use FAM if…
- You just started cycling
- You are looking for a contraceptive
- You recently came of hormonal contraceptive
- You feel like something is not quite right in your cycle and would like to figure out what it is
- You were recently diagnosed with PCOS, Amenorrhea, Endometriosis,Adenomyosis, Thyroid disease, or another hormonal imbalance
- You would like to get pregnant
- You just gave birth
- You are breastfeeding
- You are at the end of your cycling years
…and many more …
*Hormonal contraceptives and interrupt your natural hormones and menstrual cycle. They might prevent ovulation, change your cervical mucus or prevent you from having a true period. This makes it impossible to combine them with FAM. If you’d like to use FAM to track your cycle, you must first get of hormonal contraceptives.
FAM is worth it!
What using the Fertility Awareness Method will give you
Let’s sum up why learning the Fertility Awareness Method is worth it! FAM..
✅ Empowers you with body knowledge – Connect with the different phases of your cycle and recognize patterns in your health.
✅ Supports hormonal balance – Helps identify potential issues and encourages the right steps for healing.
✅ Reduces unnecessary interventions – A natural, reliable method without artificial hormones.
✅ Effective for both contraception & conception – Prevent pregnancy or time sex for the best chance of conceiving.
✅ Brings predictability & confidence – Know exactly when your period will come, detect pregnancy early, and avoid unnecessary stress.
✅ Promotes body literacy – A lifelong skill to understand your cycle and pass on to future generations.
With FAM, you gain knowledge, confidence, and control over your reproductive health.
