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Fertility
Care™ Center NFP Diocesan Director: Fr. Matthew Eickhoff NFP Services Coordinator: Michele Chambers |
The Natural Family Planning (NFP) program in the Lincoln Diocese began in 1974. Four diocesan teaching centers were established. Monsignor Pleskac served as Diocesan Director. The NFP office (now the Fertility Care™ Center) was once part of Catholic Social Services. In 1992, it came under the direction of the Family Life Office. Recent Diocesan Directors include Fathers Joseph Walsh, Robert Barnhill, and Matthew Eickhoff. Fertility Care™ Center instructors train couples in the Creighton Model Fertility Care™ System and also gives referrals to other NFP methods.
The Creighton Model Fertility Care System (CrMS) is a natural fertility care teaching system that does not require the use of harsh chemicals, devices or surgical procedures. Couples using the Creighton Model System (CrMS) can easily learn to recognize and accurately identify signs of fertility by observing the natural phases of the menstrual cycle. Fertility Care provides couples with an appreciation and understanding of their reproductive potential. Couples can then choose to use this system to either to achieve or to postpone a pregnancy in a manner consistent with the moral standards of Christ's Church.
Using the CrMS provides couples with the most effective means for achieving a pregnancy. It is also 99.6 percent effective for postponing pregnancy in the practice of responsible parenthood.
Lincoln Fertility Care Center schedule of Introductory Sessions for 2008.
January |
February |
March |
Thurs. 10 |
Thurs. 7 |
Thurs. 6 |
Tues. 22 |
Tues. 19 |
Tues. 18 |
Mon. 31 |
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April |
May |
June |
Thurs. 10 |
Thurs. 8 |
Thurs. 12 |
Mon. 14 (St. E's) |
Mon. 19 |
Tues. 24 |
Tues. 22 |
Thurs. 29 |
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July |
August |
September |
Thurs. 10 |
Thurs. 7 |
Thurs. 11 |
Tues. 22 |
TBA @ St.E's |
Tues. 23 |
Tues. 19 |
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October |
November |
December |
Thurs. 9 |
Thurs. 6 |
Thurs. 11 |
Tues. 21 |
Tues. 18 |
TBA@St. E's |
Couples wishing to use CrMS will receive individualized and comprehensive instruction by a well-trained instructor. This instruction is personal and confidential. The format includes an introductory slide presentation. This gives the couple an insight into how the system works and how the program is administered. If they decide to pursue the program, a series of follow-up instructional appointments will follow, designed to teach the couple how to integrate the systems into their lifestyle. There will be a total of eight follow-ups within the first year.
For more information about a Fertility Care Center outside the city of Lincoln please call the Family Life Office at (402) 488-2040. Fertility Care Centers of the Diocese of Lincoln: Lincoln, Beatrice, Cambridge, Falls City, Hastings, Nebraska City, North Platte, Plattsmouth, Superior & Wahoo.
To register for a Lincoln
Center Group Introductory Session please call the Family Life Office at (402)
488-2040. There is $20 charge to attend the Group Introductory Session. Space
is limited, please phone in your registration early.
View Fr. Eutenhauer's NFP Catechesis
Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer ( EYE-ten-our) became president of Human Life International in December of 2000. Human Life International is the world’s largest pro-life organization with affiliate offices and associates in seventy-five countries around the world. In six years of service to this unique mission Fr. Euteneuer has traveled more than 650,000 miles as a pro-life missionary and visited more than fifty countries.
Is NFP Just Catholic Birth Control?
The Couple to Couple League (CCL) is an international, interfaith, non-profit organization dedicated to teaching Natural Family Planning to married and engaged couples. It is essentially a volunteer organization because services are provided by professionally-trained volunteer who are supported by a relatively small staff at the international headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. Local Chapters of the organization consist mainly of certified Teaching Couples and Promoters, along with other supportive members.
Methods Taught
CCL teaches the Sympto-Thermal Method of NFP. In this system, a couple uses cross-checking signs of fertility: cervical mucus, waking temperatures, and changes in the cervix itself. The woman may also use secondary signs of fertility such as ovulation pain and others.
The League also teaches the world's oldest form of natural child spacing — ecological breastfeeding. This is a form of breastfeeding that typically provides over a year of natural infertility after childbirth.
The Sympto-Thermal Method is distinctly different from the Calendar Rhythm Method as well as single-symptom approaches such as the Mucus-only or Temperature-only methods. CCL believes that couples should be free to choose the natural method with which they feel the most comfortable based on their own experience. Therefore, CCL instructs couples in all the common signs of fertility and infertility. However, if a couple, after being adequately informed about all the signs of fertility, decides to rely exclusively on one sign, that is certainly their right. CCL teachers and counselors will support that couple within the limits of the system they choose.
There is more to NFP than the mere physical aspects of understanding and working with your fertility. The moral practice of NFP involves a way of life, not just a method of birth regulation. Therefore, CCL instruction provides insight into a host of values and moral principles that are involved in responsible parenthood and the decision to use NFP.
For more information please call a teaching couple:
| Kent & Sue Bieker | Falls city | 402-245-3414 |
| Robert & Patricia Hrnchir | Juniata | 402-462-5800 |
| Tim & Suzy Landreth | Lincoln | 402-476-4175 |
| Kenneth & Mary Grace Thiltges | Rulo | 402-245-5460 |
| John & Crystal Vanderbeek | Hastings | 402-463-5532 |
