BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:1.0 TZ:-07 BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Learning How to Talk to Your Daughter About Fertility Awareness URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/learning-how-to-talk-to-your-daughter-about-fertility-awareness/ LOCATION:Silver Bridge Inn Travelodge :: 140 Trans Canada Highway Duncan, DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Young women old enough to conceive and bear a child have a right to know about the gift of their sexuality and fertility. They need to know what is normal as they mature into motherhood and what damages their fertility. Dispelling the myths, typical, short, long and anovular cycles, pretence and the "pill" are all topics she covers. Knowledge is empowering and helps your daughter to resist peer pressure to experiment with sex. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Merrilyn Currie is the guest speaker. She has been teaching fertility awareness for many years in high schools in Toronto, notably a boys only high school, St. Michael's. She is an executive director of Natural Family Planning Association, Toronto. Her knowledge and experience comes from thirty-six years of helping Drs. John and Evelyn Billings spread their safe and effective Billings Ovulation Method around the world. A great deal of information is contained in an article in "Australian Doctor" which can be found as a download on http://www.billingsmethod.com and clicking on the circular diagram or going to http://www.woomb.org. However, here is some information on how this Method helps those who are trying to conceive as well as avoid becoming pregnant in a simple, natural and effective, as well as cost-free, way.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= "It is better than 99% effective when used to avoid becoming pregnant or delaying =0D=0A= pregnancy. It has been validated by the published works of Odeblad and Brown and =0D=0A= verified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a five-nation trial and many other =0D=0A= published trials. It is used by millions of women around the world. The benefits are =0D=0A= many. It is safe, cost free, culturally acceptable to all, able to be used by poor and =0D=0A= illiterate women, even blind women, and has no bad side effects because it is entirely =0D=0A= natural. Women are learning that what they have often noticed for themselves just as =0D=0A= they go about their normal daily activities, a special cervical secretion that looks a little =0D=0A= like raw egg white, is the sign of their health and fertility and not a condition to be =0D=0A= treated. If used to achieve pregnancy it is extremely successful in helping couples =0D=0A= pinpoint the day of maximum fertility and helping those who are experiencing extreme =0D=0A= difficulties in conceiving.=0D=0A= Couples and families benefit greatly when the woman takes charge of her fertility. A =0D=0A= very great advantage of the Billings Ovulation Method™is that it fosters communication =0D=0A= and understanding between the man and the woman, develops co-operation between them =0D=0A= and a sharing of the responsibility in this important matter of their children. Knowing =0D=0A= which act of intercourse may lead to pregnancy and which one cannot possibly do so is =0D=0A= empowering knowledge. As a result problems of alcoholism and sexual abuse in the =0D=0A= family are often reduced and marital fidelity is strengthened safeguarding their fertility =0D=0A= from an ever increasing number of sexually transmitted diseases. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Infertility is a big problem in western countries and indeed around the world. Dr. Mary =0D=0A= Martin of Oklahoma, USA, changed the whole way she practises obstetrics and =0D=0A= gynaecology after becoming an accredited Billings teacher in order to help her so-called =0D=0A= “infertile” couples. She even started a credit bearing training course for medical students =0D=0A= through the university based on the Billings charting system. She finds that charts =0D=0A= display the development of hormonal patterns which help her diagnose disease and =0D=0A= infertility at a glance whereas lab tests, effective as blood tests are, are a slower, more =0D=0A= invasive and more costly way. A soon to be published five-year study by the Ovulation =0D=0A= Method Research and Reference Centre of Australia Ltd., found that sub-fertile women =0D=0A= achieved a known pregnancy rate of 65% using the Billings Ovulation Method. The =0D=0A= study involved a total of 449 participants, of which 207 women had previously been =0D=0A= classified as sub-fertile. Twenty couples in the study had been unsuccessful with In Vitro =0D=0A= Fertilisation (IVF)/Artificial Insemination (AI). Seven of these couples achieved a =0D=0A= pregnancy using the Billings Ovulation Method. Significantly, 66% of over-38-year-olds =0D=0A= in the study also achieved a pregnancy using it. =0D=0A= Another recent study which will be published shortly in the Oxford medical journal, =0D=0A= Human Reproduction Update is entitled, “Types of ovarian activity in women and their =0D=0A= significance: the Continuum (a reinterpretation of earlier findings)” as studied by =0D=0A= Professor James Brown. The Continuum has helped us to understand hormonal patterns =0D=0A= in normal fertile and infertile cycles: cycle variants at times of irregularity that occur =0D=0A= normally throughout a woman’s reproductive life such as adolescence, breast feeding, =0D=0A= pre-menopause, and recovery from emotional and physical stress. The Billings charting =0D=0A= system alerts the doctor to early diagnosis and treatment of infertility and early disease =0D=0A= when use of contraceptive medication masks the underlying conditions. They worsen =0D=0A= and often lead to incurable infertility and disease. The Australian “The Record” regards =0D=0A= this study as being so significant that it will “revolutionise woman’s health.” =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Merrilyn will be giving a full Mother/Daughter Program on Sunday after her talk if you would like to bring your Grade six and up daughter to participate. Communication will be enhanced and your daughter's self estime will go up you will find! Please contact Sue infobillings@shaw.ca DTSTART:19691231 DTEND:19700101 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR