The fertility awareness method is an effective and natural form of birth control, but how exactly does it work? The biggest barrier to educating and informing women about FAM is that we aren’t raised knowing how our fertility and reproductive physiology works beyond knowing that we get a period. When we understand just exactly how we’re able to get pregnant, we can use that knowledge to avoid pregnancy as well.

So you're on hormonal birth control, and you want to support your hormones to make the transition easier when you come off! You might be wondering what your cycles will look like when you come off birth control, or you might be nervous or anxious to make this change.