Fertility Awareness During Postpartum
Track Your Return to Fertility After Birth
FAM helps you observe when ovulation returns — often before your first period — so you’re not caught off guard.
FAM Provides Non-Hormonal Birth Control While Breastfeeding
Hormonal options may interfere with milk supply or be unwanted. Fertility awareness offers a hormone-free way to prevent pregnancy that aligns with breastfeeding goals.
Adaptable to Postpartum Cycles
Postpartum cycles can take time to regulate. Thankfully, FAM doesn’t rely on regularity. Instead it relies on real-time signs from your body, making it ideal during this unpredictable stage.
Supports Emotional and Physical Recovery
Observing patterns in cervical mucus, bleeding, and temperature can help you identify signs of healing or identify potential issues like infections, thyroid imbalance, or stress-related disruptions.
A Natural and Supportive Approach to Your Recovery and Reproductive Health
Watch for the First Signs of Returning Fertility
After birth, ovulation can return before your first bleed. It's possible to conceive again once ovulation returns. With FAM, you'll learn to recognize subtle shifts in cervical fluid, and other secondary signs that indicate fertility is coming back, so you can feel confident and prepared.
Reconnect With Your Body After Birth
Charting helps you tune back in to your body’s rhythms after the profound changes of pregnancy and birth. It offers a quiet, grounding way to observe how your system is healing, shifting, and rebalancing day by day.
A Gentle, Non-Hormonal Option While Breastfeeding
If you're nursing, you may want to avoid hormonal birth control. Fertility Awareness is entirely hormone-free, making it a supportive option that doesn’t interfere with milk supply or your body’s natural healing process.
Space Children On Your Timeline
Whether you’re avoiding another pregnancy or starting to think about trying again, FAM gives you the insight you need to make intentional decisions about spacing. You’ll know when you’re fertile and when you’re not through charting with the method.
Flexible for Irregular or Unpredictable Changing Cycles
Postpartum cycles can take months to settle into a pattern, and for many, they may look very different than before. FAM is based on real-time body signs, not cycle predictions, which makes it one of the most responsive and personalized methods during this time.
Learn Lactational Amenorrhea Method
LAM is a natural, effective method of birth control based on exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months postpartum. When practiced correctly, it can be up to 98% effective by temporarily suppressing ovulation. Fertility Awareness education helps you understand the criteria for LAM and to recognize when it’s time to transition to charting full fertility signs as ovulation begins to return.
Postpartum Charting
with FAM is Practical
A postpartum-focused Fertility Awareness Method is incredibly valuable. Many people are surprised to learn how essential body literacy becomes after birth, when cycles are unpredictable, hormones are shifting, and contraception needs often change. This method is an asset for postpartum parents looking to manage their fertility without drugs and devices.