Judy and Henry Brooks of Delray Beach had seven children using the sympto- thermal method of natural family planning. All of them were planned. Not one was a surprise. The Brookses used the method to ...

If you’re looking for an alternative to traditional birth control, fertility awareness methods (FAMs) could be for you. They’re a bit more complicated, yes. But they don’t involve any kind of hormonal ...

A friend recently surprised me by confessing she'd started having sex without contraception for three weeks out of every month, swearing by a thermometer and a calendar to track her fertility. Her ...