Jane Knight is a fertility nurse specialist with over 30 years' experience teaching fertility awareness in both NHS and private practice. She was the UK Principal Investigator for the European multi-centre study on the probability of conception on different days of the menstrual cycle. She trains health professionals in the UK and internationally.

Preface

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1. Overview of fertility awareness
2. Male fertility
3. Female fertility
4. Temperature: first indicator
5. Cervical secretions: second indicator
6. Cervix: third indicator
7. Calendar calculations: fourth indicator
8. Minor indicators of fertility
9. Home test kits and monitors
10. Combining indicators
11. Simplified methods
12. Factors affecting the menstrual cycle
13. FAMs for women of normal fertility
14. Contraception and returning fertility
15. FAMs after hormonal contraception
16. Breastfeeding, LAM and returning fertility
17. FAMs during the peri-menopause
18. Planning pregnancy
19. Conception delays and assisted fertility
20. Teaching fertility awareness

Appendix A. Normal fertility chart

Appendix B. Instructions for use

Appendix C. Planning pregnancy chart

Appendix D. Chart summary sheet

Appendix E. Autonomy checklist

Appendix F. Body mass index chart

Appendix G. Drugs which affect the menstrual cycle

Appendix H. Further reading

Bibliography

Index