Understanding Billings

With marriage comes a lot of responsibility. Every married couple strives to have an

intimate, loving spousal relationship, while maintaining some sort of control over

their family size based on their personal situations. Although artificial

contraceptives appear to be a couple’s only option for controlling fertility, these can

actually be very harmful to a couple’s relationship and a woman’s body. The Billings

method however, is a safe, accurate method that will bond couples while giving

them the confidence to plan their families.

The Billings Method was founded in 1953 by John and Evlyn Billings and is one of

the chosen methods of Natural Family Planning. It is the preferred method for

Trinidad because of its history here, as well as its simplicity and accuracy. People

often confuse the authentic method with its copycats, which can result in failure of

desired result for a couple. Not to be confused with the rhythm or counting

methods, the Billings method has high success rates when followed accurately.

Many people hear the word Billings and instantly think abstinence, but this method

is in fact, quite the opposite. It encourages couples to take advantage of infertile

periods during a woman’s cycle since it recognizes the importance of intimacy

between couples in marriage. On the other hand, during the short fertile periods in a

woman’s cycle, when a couple that has decided to postpone or avoid pregnancy for

specific reasons, must abstain, this time of self-control causes the couple to grow

extremely strong together, since the decision is mutual and agreed upon by both the

husband and wife. The couple works together to achieve the same outcome. The

husband learns to understand the complex beauty of his wife’s body and becomes in

tune in order to make responsible decisions with her. He learns to value her body as

a life-giving gift instead of something that is one dimensional and regarded as solely

pleasure-giving.

Unlike other artificial methods, the Billings method creates discussion between

husband and wife about their family size and future plans. This is an extremely

significant part of a couple’s journey that tends to be eliminated from most modern

marriages today. Each time couples engage in this valuable discussion, it causes

them to reevaluate their current decisions about family size, which is necessary due

to ever changing circumstances in a marriage.

The Billings Method is also completely natural and hormone/chemical free as well

as economically inexpensive. Couples using this method do not have to worry about

spending money as well any dangerous or harmful side effects for the woman. The

method relies simply on observation of the body’s natural signs. Women can also

use this method to be in tune with their health, and can detect any abnormalities

from these observations. Perhaps the reason most doctors don’t recommend

Billing’s is because they don’t benefit financially from it, combined with the fact that

they confuse it with other failed methods like the rhythm and counting.

Married couples that use this method have a divorce rate of 0.2% as opposed to

contracepting couples that have an increasing rate of more than 50%. Once

followed accurately studies have shown that out of a wide range of couples that

wanted to avoid pregnancy only 0.5% failed. On the other hand, couples trying to

achieve pregnancy were 70% successful. After seeing the endless benefits of this

method, it is hard to imagine that anyone would be unwilling to give it a try!

For more information on the authentic Billings Method please visit www.womb.org

or www.billingsttwebs.com.

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