Infertility 

Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive, despite frequent and unprotected intercourse for at least a year.
If a couple is using the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System to achieve pregnancy, after six months of fertility-focused intercourse (days of fertility are selected for intercourse), the couple is considered to be struggling with infertility and will be referred to NaProTECHNOLOGY Medical Consultant for medical evaluation and proper treatment. 
Infertility is a major physical illness! (A symptom of underlying disease) It must be taken seriously!

The cross of Infertility

While many people are seeking to make abortion legal and accessible during the nine months of pregnancy, the number of couples struggling to try to achieve pregnancy is on the rise. Infertility is a symptom of underlying disease impacting 1 out of every six couples in the US. The diseases that cause infertility have a “two-pronged” effect.  They not only hinder the functioning of fertility, but they also cause both short and long-term health problems.
It is certainly, as the USSB website states, "a great burden for couples to bear, especially when they so deeply desire to have a child and live out their vocation to be open to life and welcome the gift of children from God. It is important to remember that despite infertility, couples "can have a married life that is filled with love and meaning." (see Married Love and the Gift of Life) As Saint John Paul II has said, infertile couples are able to be fruitful when their married love is "open to others, to the needs of the apostolate ... the needs of the poor ... the needs of orphans" and to the world. (John Paul II, Homily, 1982; quoted in Married Love and the Gift of Life)." 

 Infertility presents couples with an unexpected cross. Marriage is inherently called to bring forth new life, and those couples unable to conceive suffer from this unfulfilled, natural human desire. No one can fully comprehend the grief, the pain and all the emotions that the couples go through as they are faced with such heavy cross unless if they lived through it themselves. It is true that infertility is not cancer yet it is very painful and can be worse than cancer for some people. 

I personally call it "the silent cancer"; couples struggling with infertility endure its pain alone most of the time while people who have cancer are surrounded by their family members. Instead of receiving support from their family members, infertile couples experience the disappointment of parents and siblings to the absence of grandchildren, nieces and nephews they desire to have which places more pressure on the couples and adds to their stress. Infertility can also impact a couple’s relationship and jeopardize the stability of their marriage if they don't know how to deal with it. I know this for sure because my husband and I were there one day.

This cross can weigh very heavily on the couples if they try to carry it separately and away from the Lord. Together united and trusting in the Lord and His Will for them, they can come to embrace the cross and allow it to bring them closer to each as a couple and to the Lord. The acceptance of this cross and resolving to morally acceptable treatments can restore healing, hope and peace. I can attest to that based on my own personal journey of infertility.
Let us offer as much support as we can for couples around us suffering with the inability to get pregnant by praying for them, being there for them, providing them with resources that offer morally acceptable treatments, that restore hope and healing to their marriage.
(You can read my full story here.)

"Life-Giving Love in an Age of Technology" (USCCB, 2009)

The USSCB website provides a great document titled "Life-Giving Love in an Age of Technology" in which many questions related to different treatments are addressed. Below are some excerpts from it.
"It is estimated today that one out of six couples will experience infertility. The suffering of unanticipated childlessness is real. Spouses may feel they have somehow failed, that they are inadequate in a basic aspect of marital life. Their pain may even be aggravated by regret or guilt over past contraceptive use, sterilization, abortion, or other factors that can contribute to infertility. The sight of other couples' children may make them yearn for a child all the more and add to their distress. Infertility can affect a couple's sexual relationship and the stability of their marriage. It may even affect relationships with parents and in-laws who express disappointment at the absence of grandchildren. Catholic couples may feel this pain even more deeply as they hear the Church praise family life and teach that children are the 'supreme gift of marriage."​

In an age of advances in reproductive medicine, many solutions are offered to couples going through this distress. Some solutions offer real hope for restoring a couple's natural, healthy ability to have children. Others pose serious moral problems by failing to respect the dignity of the couple's marital relationship, of their sexuality, or of the child. The Church has compassion for couples suffering from infertility and wants to be of real help to them. At the same time, some “reproductive technologies” are not morally legitimate ways to solve those problems. We bishops of the United States offer this reflection to explain why. We also offer it to provide hope—real hope that couples can “accept children lovingly from God” and build a family while fully respecting God’s design for their marriage and for the gift of children. 

Hope can be restored and solutions found through NaProTECHNOLOGY

There is hope. The Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System, used in conjunction with NaProTECHNOLOGY – a medical approach cooperating with natural hormonal balance of the human body, can increase a couple’s potential to conceive a child.
​NaProTECHNOLOGY uses the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System biomarkers to identify the problems and cooperate with the menstrual and fertility cycles to correct the condition, maintain the human ecology, and sustain the procreative potential. Women now have an opportunity to know and understand the causes of the symptoms from which they suffer.

NaProTECHNOLOGY is offering great hope for couples and women dealing with infertility and miscarriages. Using a NaProTECHNOLOGY approach for the treatment of infertility can be highly effective and even more effective than current approaches to infertility. You can read more about it and about different cases of infertility by clicking here and watch some videos below and more in the videos section under resources..

NaProTECHNOLOGY Medical Consultants are dedicated to trying to find the problem and treat it to increase the chances of a couple achieving a pregnancy naturally. However, they cannot promise a baby since God alone is the Author of Life.

Diet & Lifestyle changes

In many cases, changes in diet & lifestyle (less stressful) may be enough to improve fertility cycles and chances for conceiving and sustaining a much desired pregnancy.  For more information on how your diet can affect your fertility, check out Fertility, Cycles and Nutrition: How Your Diet Affects Your Menstrual Cycles & Fertility

Springs in the Desert Ministry 

Springs in the Desert is a ministry that accompanies those struggling with infertility by offering a place of respite and solidarity where they can know God’s love for them and discover His unique call to fruitfulness. You can click here to check it.

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NaProTECHNOLOGY versus Artificial Reproductive Techniques

Check out here this effectiveness summary of NaPro (Natural Procreative) Technology versus ART

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