PeakDay Archives - Natural Family Planning | Fertility Awareness

Inside PCOS: Understanding the Hormonal Puzzle

“PCOS is one of the leading causes of infertility in women and the most common reason for irregular periods,” said Lauren Rubal, M.D., a reproductive endocrinologist from Newport Beach, Calif. According to the National Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Association, one in ten women have PCOS, but half remain undiagnosed. Recognizing the Symptoms PCOS symptoms include irregular…

Perimenopause and the PeakDay App

Women often wonder when their fertility will begin to change and what symptoms and charting changes they will experience. Many women have very regular cycles and predicable charts that they have relied upon for years, so they become nervous when they start experiencing different cycles and observations during their perimenopause years. In the image below,…

Resolutions – It’s Not Too Late!

Let’s face it – New Year’s resolutions sound like a great idea but we have a hard time sticking to them. We get excited about a fresh start or reviving past goals we didn’t quite meet, then life happens. We get off-track and we think we have missed our opportunity to make that goal. Research…

A Reluctant Podcaster

At times we are asked to do things that we know are out of our comfort zone. We know it will stretch us a bit. That was the case for me when asked to host the new PeakDay Podcast for Couple to Couple League. I am solidly a behind-the-scenes kind of person. Researching guests, developing…

Into the Deep

‘After he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch.” Simon said in reply, “Master, we have worked hard all night and have caught nothing, but at your command I will lower the nets.” When they had done this, they caught a great…

Finding Freedom in “Not So Perfect” Charting

Summertime is full of lots of deviations from normal routine with vacations and family time around every corner. This can sometimes cause you to miss information on your fertility chart leading to an unsuccessful interpretation of Phase 3, shown as ‘green’ in PeakDay all the way to the end of a cycle. This time of…

PeakDay & Revelation90 at SEEK24!

What do you get when you have 5 days, 19,000+ Catholic college students, halls full of in-demand Catholic speakers, dozens of religious orders in their habits and hundreds of vendors of products and programs geared for young Catholics? SEEK24! You can bet that Couple to Couple League was there amid the milling crowds, ordered chaos.…

Finally…It’s “Go Time!” for CCL New Projects

“I have chosen you from the world, says the Lord, to go out and bear fruit that will remain,” (John 15:16) certainly applies to CCL. God has called forth our members from the world to teach and support the holy NFP “lifestyle.” For months I have been looking forward to shouting “It’s Go Time!” I…