Marquette Method Fertility Awareness with Taylor Parent

Benefits of NFP in Marriage

Awareness

NFP helps you become more aware of your body's fertility signs, reproductive health as well as your overall health and well being.

Communication

NFP promotes communication between spouses and therefore shares the load of reproductive responsibility.

Natural

There are no side effects caused by artificial hormones, barriers, or implants of foreign objects and materials.

Moral

Spouses are able to live out thei vow of their vocation to the fullest potential of God's design for love, sex, and marriage. Love and life.

Effective

With perfect and typical use NFP can be just as effective as any of the other methods of other family planning. The marquette method has the highest perfect and typical effectiveness rates of any method of NFP.

A little about me . . .

Taylor Parent RN, BSN, MMST

My name is Taylor Parent. I have been a nurse since 2016. My Backgroud in nursing includes solid organ transplant, med/surg, pediatric, and currently labor and delivery, and postpartum. My husband and I got married in 2018. We currently live in northern Colorado with our three boys ages 5, 3, and 1. We enjoy camping, riding bikes, and spending time with our family and friends. Our NFP journey started with learning the Creighton Model during marriage prep. After we had our first son we decided that the Marquette Method would be a better fit for us. I have been using the method since 2020 and teaching it since 2024. I am very passionate about women's health and I'm looking forward to walking with you through all your seasons of fertility

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at taylorparent.nfp@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

What is Fertility Awareness/NFP?

Fertility Awareness and Natural Family Planning Are a wasy of observing a woman's biological signs and symptoms of fertility and then using that information to either conceive or avoid a pregnancy with periodic abstinence. By monitoring one or more of these biomarkers coupled with an algorithm. this helps determine the fertile window each cycle.

What does the Catholic Church believe about NFP?

The Catholic Church supports the methods of Natural Family Planning (NFP) because they respect God's design for married love.

What is a biomarker?

There are several biomarkers of a woman's fertility but the three main ones are are cervical mucus, basal body temperature and urinary hormones. By monitoring one or more of these biomarkers coupled with an algorithm. helps determine the fertile window each cycle.

Are there other methods of NFP?

Yes. Depending on what biomarker(s) you want to monitor there are different methods to fit your needs. Other methods include Creighton & Billings (cervical mucus), Sympto-thermal (basal bodytemp). Marquette is typically only monitors urinary hormones but there are protocols to add in mucus and basal body temp if those are a good fit for you.

The Marquette Method

Overview of using the method . . .

The Marquette Method uses the clearblue fertility monitor with your first morning's urine to look for a rise in your estrogen and a surge in luteinizing hormone (LH). Each days readings will be charted. Once a baseline of data is collected an algorithm can be applied to be used in conjunction with the monitor. Each season of fertility has unique evidence based protocols to be followed. This method offers a once per day assessment of clear and objective information to inspire your actions wether your intention is to avoid or achieve a pregnancy.