Action Item! Healthy People 2020 Needs to Know About NaPro

from Friends of Fertility Care - Philadelphia

Americans have been invited to participate in the Healthy People 2020 process. The comment period will be open for participation until November 13, 2015. Tell your colleagues and friends about this opportunity to be heard, especially your views on family planning. To participate in the public comment period, visit www.HealthyPeople.gov. Why not tell them about the Creighton Model FertilityCare System and NaProTECHNOLOGY®?

The Friends of Fertility Care remains faithful to the mission of educating men and women about the gifts of fertility and authentic intimacy in relationships. This is accomplished through the promotion of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System (CrMS) and NaProTECHNOLOGY as fertility care throughout all reproductive stages and as an effective means of Natural Family Planning.

In the past year, the FFC has conducted three NaPro “roadshows” at parishes in Montgomery and Bucks County, gave presentations to pro-life groups and high schools, assisted the National Gianna Centers for Women’s Health and Fertility at the World Meeting of Families and sponsored a presentation by Dr. Thomas W. Hilgers, Director and founder of the Pope Paul VI Institute, at Neumann University in Aston, PA.

Please support our work with your prayers and a generous donation.

Follow these three steps to better help us.

• Contribute by mail to the Friends of FertilityCare, PO Box 354, Jenkintown, PA 19046 or via our website by using this link. Help us to continue our core activities of outreach and education. Help us replenish and expand our St. Gianna Scholarship Fund, which provides financial support so that medical students, PA’s & NP’s can be trained in NaProTECHNOLOGY.

• Share our e-newsletter and website address with family and friends—your neighbor, doctor, local priest, seminarians, minister or your local marriage preparation program. Ask them to subscribe to our e-newsletter for periodic updates

• Finally, please help us update our files. If your contact information has changed, please update your contact information at our website by using this link. We thank you for your generosity and support. We are building a Culture of Life in Health Care.

Q&A with FertilityCare™ Professionals during the World Meeting of Families

On Thursday, September 24, the Friends of FertilityCare- Philadelphia is sponsoring an informative evening about the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System and NaProTechnology®. Come and learn how this life affirming health care assists women with various reproductive health problems including infertility.

There will be a viewing of the film NaPro: A Quiet Revolution produced by the Black Friars Media at 7 PM sharp. This is followed by our wonderful witness couples who tell us of their journey toward health and healing. 

Afterward, health care professionals trained in NaProTechnology will be available to answer written questions to ensure privacy. Light refreshments will be served and literature will be available for purchase. 

This event will be held:

Thursday, September 24, 2015
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Conahan Hall of Immaculate Conception BVM Catholic Church
602 West Avenue in Jenkintown, PA 19046

For driving directions, use this link.

 For more information or to volunteer, please call Barbara at (215) 884-2922. To download the event flyer, click here. 

 You can  register for this event, by clicking on the button below. 

  

The Friends of FertilityCare Philadelphia are a group of health care professionals and members of our community who wish to promote effective, integrated health care for women and couples. To that end, the Friends of FertilityCare are dedicated to making Creighton Model FertilityCare services and NaProTechnology known, respected and applied throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. The primary intention of the Friends of FertilityCare is to educate all people in the "good news" of Creighton Model FertilityCare System and NaProTechnology.

NaPro: A Quiet Revolution is a new documentary, produced by Black Friars Media, an apostolate of the Dominican Providence of St. Joseph.

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The Family Fully Alive Deserves Pro-Life Health Care

From Friends of Fertility Care - Philadelphia

The theme for the 2015 World Meeting of Families is "Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive." This was inspired by the words of the early Church Father, St. Irenaeus, who said that "the glory of God is man fully alive." Archbishop Chaput tells us that,"in like manner, the glory of men and women is their capacity to love as God loves. And rarely can that love be lived out more intimately and fruitfully than in the family."


         

This year Philadelphians are experiencing two blessings - the visit of Pope Frances and the arrival of a new pro-life women's health practice. Dr. Monique Ruberu completed her training at the Pope Paul VI Institute in April and has been offering NaPro Technology and the Creighton Model FertilityCare System at Natural Women's Health, a hospital-based ob/gyn practice located in Meadowbrook.

According to Dr. Ruberu, she was,"a typical ob/gyn just like any of the others that have been trained." She would prescribe contraceptives for family planning and use them to treat women's health issues such as irregular cycles, dysfunctional bleeding and premenstrual syndrome [PMS]. 

That all changed after she experienced a major spiritual conversion. Dr. Ruberu read the book Unplanned by Abby Johnson in which the author spoke of her conversion to a pro-life leader from a planned parenthood director. A seed was planted by this book. Dr. Ruberu felt the call to offer support and pray outside of an abortion center. She also underwent a personal crisis in her life which was completely healed by the Lord. After its resolution and positive outcome, she decided to show her gratefulness to God by taking the step to pray outside of the 777 Appletree abortion center in Philadelphia in January, 2014.

Read more about Dr. Ruberu's  story using this link 

Two Great Happenings in a ONE NIGHT Event in SE Pennsylvania During FertilityCare Week‏

ALL for YOU - ALL in ONE NIGHT

The Movie - NaPro: A Quiet Revolution

Explains that there is a viable alternative to birth control to treat women's health problems and a far superior treatment for infertility than in-vitro fertilization [IVF]. The film looks at a new women's health science of Natural Procreative Technology [NaPro Technology]. Come to see the NaPro: A Quiet Revolution Movie! Popcorn optional.

Meet Dr. Monique Ruberu - Philadelphia's Newest Obstetrician & Gynecologist 

Dr. Monique will share her conversion story and her passion for life! 

Currently she is the only Ob/Gyn trained in NaPro Technology in the Philadelphia area. 

A Q&A session will be open for everyone. This will provide an excellent

opportunity to ask questions about the film or thoughts one may have on women & their fertility health care.

Bring a friend and come out for this TWO GREAT Happenings -ALL in ONE NIGHT 

Light refreshments will be served and literature will be available for purchase.

REGISTER NOW!

For driving directions, use this link. 

Sponsored by Friends of FertilityCare - Philadelphia

The Friends of FertilityCare Philadelphia are a group of health care professionals and members of our community who wish to promote effective, integrated health care for women and couples. To that end, the Friends of FertilityCare are dedicated to making Creighton Model FertilityCare services and NaProTechnology known, respected and applied throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. The primary intention of the Friends of FertilityCare is to educate all people in the "good news" of Creighton Model FertilityCare System and NaProTechnology.

NaPro: A Quiet Revolution is a new documentary, produced by Black Friars Media, an apostolate of the Dominican Providence of St. Joseph.

Celebration of Marriage During Worldwide FertilityCare Week - March 23-29, 2014

 Friends of Fertility Care ENews Philadelphia

This year's theme for Worldwide FertilityCare Week, March 23-29, 2014, "Build a strong, healthy, life-giving, faith-filled marriage," celebrates the profound effect the Creighton Model FertilityCare System [CrMS] has on marriage. Couples using the CrMS communicate regularly about their fertility and pregnancy-related intentions.  Necessarily, they experience not only greater sexual freedom but deeper unity and intimacy as well.

 As we celebrate Worldwide FertilityCare Week, what a better way to understand the theme of  "building a strong, faith-filled marriage," than to hear a personal story of a marriage built on the Creighton Model FertilityCare System.

 Helene & John's Personal story

My husband and I started using the Creighton Model FertilityCare System [CrMS]  before we were married to help diagnose the premenstrual symptoms that I had been experiencing for many years, such as painful cramping [which sometimes required the use of Tylenol #3 and sick days from work], brown bleeding, and depression.  We were both involved in the method. I would do the observations and my husband would record them on the chart.  The more we participated in this endeavor, the more we grew together. The involvement allowed us to live chastely while developing a more intimate and spiritual relationship.  After some cycles of tutelage by Barbara Rose, FertilityCare practitioner, charting and confirmation by blood work, it was determined that my progesterone levels were below the normal range.  This meant that when we would consummate our marriage and if we conceived a child, there was a high risk of miscarriage and pre-term labor by which we could lose a child.

Closer to our wedding date in May of 2005, I began oral progesterone therapy during the ten days surrounding my peak fertility days, which helped to alleviate the symptoms I had been experiencing over time as well as ensure that a pregnancy could be sustained.  Our plan was to try to have children as soon as possible.  Within three months of taking the oral progesterone, we were successful in conceiving our first child!  We were also able to determine the pregnancy two weeks after conception by the charting that we used.  After further confirming the pregnancy with our obstetrician, Dr. Brigida de Guzman-Cam, I was placed on oil progesterone injections twice a week.  As the pregnancy progressed, so did my natural production of progesterone and I was able to stop the injections at about 24 weeks.

My husband and I were not sure what to expect when we began using the Creighton Model.  Needless to say, we are ecstactic with the success we have achieved by using this non-invasive method of fertility.  It has allowed us to grow as a family spiritually and literally!  Had we not been led to Dr. de Guzman and subsequently to Barbara Rose, we may not have found practitioners who understood of our desire to achieve safe and healthy fertility practices and our life as we know it today would not be possible.

March 2014 Update: We have welcomed a total so far of four healthy and active boys with the help of NaPro Technology. We are truly blessed to have been able to avoid miscarriage thanks to this natural method of family planning and authentic fertility care.


This is a perfect ending story for celebrating the Worldwide FertilityCare Week.   Helene & John also feel very strongly that this is why we believe there really needs to be a Gianna center in the Philadelphia region.

 The Friends of FertilityCare Philadelphia are a group of health care professionals and members of our community who wish to promote effective, integrated health care for women and couples. To that end, the Friends of FertilityCare are dedicated to making Creighton Model FertilityCare services and NaProTechnology known, respected and applied throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. The primary intention of the Friends of FertilityCare is to educate all people in the "good news" of Creighton Model FertilityCare System and NaProTechnology.  For more information on this group, use this link