March 14th, 2010
The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding informs women about a form of baby spacing that:
• is unknown to most women and their husbands
• provides extended natural infertility
• is as “green” as it gets
• is healthiest for both mother and baby
• appeals to women of faith and secularity
• spaces babies about two years apart, on the average.
For more information on the baby spacing effect of breastfeeding, read The Seven standards of Ecological Breastfeeding: The Frequency Factor.
• This book explains the maternal behaviors associated with breastfeeding infertility.
• This book addresses those who say “It doesn’t work as a baby spacer.”
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March 7th, 2010
You, the individual person and couple, are at the heart of the effort to rebuild a culture of life and hope. God is calling you to accept the twin challenges of chastity and generosity in having children. You can learn how to practice chaste NFP from the online manual at this website—and available in print—or you can learn from local NFP providers. Then with thoughtful prayer, you can discern whether God is calling you to seek or to avoid pregnancy.
Do the right thing for the best reasons
Even if you intend to let the babies come as they may, learn NFP because it’s part of God’s plan for families. Practice ecological breastfeeding because it’s part of God’s plan for baby-care and baby-spacing. Pray for a generous heart. “Seek first the kingdom of God, and the rest will be given unto you” (see Mt 6:33). Seek first to do things in your own life in accord with God’s plan. Do your best to share God’s plan with others. Then let God take care of the rest of the culture.
That’s the vision.
Please help make it a reality.
Want to apply the theology of the body to breastfeeding? Read Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood.
John F. Kippley
Sex and the Marriage Covenant: A Basis for Morality (Ignatius) Now on sale until April 4, 2010 at $3.95. Contact www.ignatius.com.
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February 28th, 2010
This organization shares the founders’ 40+ years of experience with using and teaching natural family planning and explaining morality in a way that ordinary people can understand. The content of our triple-strand approach to natural family planning is unique within the NFP movement.
•Ecological breastfeeding provides a wonderful combination of health benefits for mother and baby, the emotional benefits of attachment parenting, and the natural spacing of babies. It is truly part of God’s plan for families. Only ecological breastfeeding with its frequent suckling provides a significant spacing of babies. Most couples can use ecological breastfeeding to space the births of their children and then use systematic NFP when they have a sufficiently serious reason for additional spacing or avoiding pregnancy.
•The covenant theology of human sexuality provides an easy-to-grasp way to understand and internalize God’s plan for love, marriage and sexuality. The knowledge that the sex act ought to symbolize the commitment of marriage provides meaning and motivation to postpone the “marriage act” until marriage. The knowledge that within marriage it ought to be a renewal of the marriage covenant provides deep meaning to this expression of married love. It also provides a challenge to spouses to maintain an attitude of caring love and gratitude throughout every aspect of their life together.
•The Kippley-Prem Method of systematic NFP provides couples with maximum freedom of choice and minimum abstinence.
Next Week: Your Place in This Vision
John F. Kippley
Sex and the Marriage Covenant: A Basis for Morality (Ignatius) Now on sale until April 4, 2010 at $3.95. Contact www.ignatius.com.
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