Chapter 6: Introductory Presentation of the CrMS

Hilgers TW

Restorative Reproductive Medicine NaProTechnology

Chapter 6: Introductory Presentation of the CrMS

Hilgers TW

The Medical and Surgical Practice of NaProTECHNOLOGY, 129-153, 2004

RRM Academy Synopsis

Creighton Model intro session introduces couples to mucus charting

The Creighton Model introductory session shows couples what cervical mucus signals about fertility. Thomas W. Hilgers wrote this 2004 textbook chapter as a guide for presenters. The chapter gives the session format and the words for 72 slides. Topics include anatomy, the ovulation cycle, charting stamps and follow-up teaching.

Key Findings

The session is usually given to a group of no more than 6 to 10 couples by trained presenters, and attendees complete an evaluation form afterward.
Charting materials go to couples only when they book a first follow-up appointment. As a general rule, couples who wait three months to decide would attend the session again.
The slides teach that the postovulatory phase averages about 13 days (range 9 to 17 across women), while the preovulatory phase varies widely.
Couples chart at the end of each day, recording a colored stamp plus a written description of the most fertile sign of that day.
Follow-up teaching covers the first year: five sessions in the first three months, then three more.

RRM Context

Creighton Model charting is one of the fertility awareness-based methods that RRM clinicians work with. This chapter shows how one program introduces it. The chapter treats charting as a shared task: the woman observes, her partner supports, and the couple uses the system. The NaProTRACKING label ties the same chart to cycle monitoring within NaProTechnology.

Our editorial summary of this paper, not the article's abstract.

Abstract

This chapter describes the Introductory Session, the point of entry into a FertilityCare program, and reproduces the commentary that FertilityCare Practitioners use with the introductory slide presentation. Hilgers states that the slide presentation is designed only to introduce clients to the CrMS, with the actual teaching carried out at individual follow-up sessions, and that charts and stamps are provided once a first follow-up appointment is scheduled. The slide commentary reviews male and female reproductive anatomy and physiology, the role of estrogen and cervical mucus in sperm survival, type E and type G mucus as a biological valve, and the stamps and descriptions used to chart a cycle. The commentary also reports a study of 1,876 couples over 17,130 couple months of use, with a method effectiveness to avoid pregnancy of 99.5 percent and a use-effectiveness to avoid pregnancy of 96.8 percent.

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Topics

Restorative Reproductive Medicine › NaProTechnology › Protocols and Framework · Fertility Awareness › Methods › Creighton Model · Menstrual Cycle › Cycle Biomarkers › Cervical Mucus

Thomas W Hilgers

Tom Hilgers, T Hilgers

Hilgers et al. 2004, Hilgers 2004

Chapter 6: Introductory Presentation of the CrMS

Creighton Model intro session introduces couples to mucus charting

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